While many of the formal elements of the social, religious, economic, and political structure, such as lineages, family groups, age grades, and secret societies, have been modified through culture contact, many of the basic patterns of social behaviour, emphasis on alternative choices, and goals, achievement and competition, and the lack of strong autocratic authority, have survived and are a part of the newly developing culture. Nearly 1 million of them are living, studying, and working in places as far away and as varied as North America, Europe, Australia,India,Japan, etc. With this large proportion of the Igbos in diaspora, along with a teaming population of international scholars whose research interests in one way or the other intersect aspects of the anthropology, sociology, history, culture, ethnology, religion, philosophy, politics, literature, science, etc. of the Igbos, the need for a mailing list to serve as a discussion forum for issues on and about the Igbos can never be over-stated. Igbo-net is a mailing list for Igbos and friends of Igbos, and scholars whose research interests intersect with aspects of Igbo life past and present. This electronic mailing list is a free forum for the discussion, debate, and the sharing and formulation of ideas that in one way or the other concern the Igbos.
Postings can cover any topic of interest.
Postings can also include news, opinions, observations, humor, announcements,or requests. We hope to use the facilities of this forum to link up all Igbo community organizations in Africa, Europe, North and South America, Asia, Oceania, etc. It is our objective to aid in the pooling of our human resources in technology transfer from wherever we are currently located to Igboland. We hope to be involved in the campaign for the expanded teaching of Igbo studies in more universities beyond our shores. We see this mailing list as an extension of the guiding principles of Igbo Improvement Unions of yore that were very instrumental in many developmental projects throughout most of Igboland before the advent of the Nigerian civil war.