Okonko Research: The Dawn of Igbology

Original and renowned world civilizations like Egyptology are associated with river deltas and basins. Just as Egyptology deals with the Egyptian Civilization and Heritage, and owes much to the Nile delta, so does Igbology focus on the Niger Delta Civilization and Heritage. Igbology serves as an academic base and point of departure in this unraveling of Igbo Scholarship, Heritage and Civilization. Rev. Prof. Ụkaegbu welcomes Scholars to the thought provoking project of Igbology with its millennium package.

The Ọkọnkọ Research aims at delivering a scientific account of Traditional Igbo Religion that Ndi Igbo practiced before the advent of Christianity. One of the major tasks that scholars of Igbology will resolve is the relationship between Igbo Traditional religion and Judaism/Christianity. Phenomenology of Religion shows that Igbo Traditional Religion and Judaism have much in common and that Christianity is not strange to the Igbo people. It may not be an overstatement to claim that the Old Testament has Afrịkan origin and is closer to Igbo Traditional Religion than it is to the European counterpart. It is not surprising that Moses, who is the founder of Judaism by the establishment of the ten commandments, was born in Afrịka and had Afrịkan education and training. Moreover, Moses never reached the promised land of Israel. Moses was an Afrịkan Jew.