Learn Igbo: Yesterday & Today — The Trader Who Wore Two Clocks | Igbo Daily Drops (S2 E101) Week 21

A twenty-four-year-old Igbo trader in 1970s Hong Kong wears two

watches on one wrist — and neither is decoration.

In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 sentences for

narrating your day across time — yesterday, today, and the breath

that holds both together.

This episode documents one of the most underdocumented chapters of

the Igbo diaspora: the post-Biafran War trade networks that carried

Igbo women from Onitsha to Kowloon three years after the war ended,

building the trans-continental commerce routes that predate the

word "globalisation" itself.

Research in this episode draws on Yang Yang, University of Hong Kong

(2011) — documenting how Biafran War survivors, stripped of savings,

built the African trading networks in Asia from nothing.

📖 Today's proverb: Onye na-ejeghi ahịa n'oge na-azụ ihe ahịa jụrụ

ajụ — One who does not reach market on time buys what is left over.

🗣️ Sentences practised today:

1. Anyị gara ahịa ụnyaahụ. — We went to market yesterday.

2. Gịnị mere taa? — What happened today?

3. Anyị hụrụ ha ụnyaahụ na taa. — We saw them yesterday and today.

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