Tags: Ethnic Group.

Igbo Americans or Americans of Igbo ancestry (Igbo: Ṇ́dị́ Ígbò n’Àmírị́kà) are Americans of ethnic Igbo people descent most of them former Nigerian citizens who arrived in the US as economic migrants and because of issues relating to the Nigerian-Biafran War.In the United States Igbo slaves were erroneously referred to by a couple of names corrupted from Igbo such as Ibo and Eboe.

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language
American English, Igbo language, African American Vernacular English
population place
Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Puerto Rico, Miami, Philadelphia, Southern United States, Newark New Jersey, Boston
related
African American, Igbo people
religion
Anglicanism, Baptists, Christianity, Methodism, Catholic Church, Protestantism

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