Mmuo Nkata: Encounters in Igbo Language

What does a 13-year-old girl hear when an ancient man speaks the oldest words she has never forgotten?In Mmụọ Nkata, Ada approaches a 78-year-old Dibịa with a child's question about the tree of knowledge, and is drawn into a world where sound is cosmology, language is spirit, and ancestral memory vibrates beneath every syllable.Through the words of Dibịa Agbara, the Igbo language is revealed not a...