OrangeOlamide:
Igbo is quite a unique language because there is no centrally "accepted" language. There are several dialects depending on where you're from. I think.

Yes there is no common spoken form as igbos tend to speak their native dialects but there is now a central written and spoken standard used exclusively by the Igbo language media (i.e. BBC Igbo) novelists, poets etc. It was invented during the colonial era to bridge the gap between the multitudes of Igbo dialects and sub-dialects, and has since been improved (still is) by Igbo language enthusiasts and language experts. Due to the many new technical Igbo words that have been coined into it, it is probably the richest strand of the Igbo language. The dialect is known as Igbo Izugbe.

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A richer vocabulary is supposed to make a Language easier not harder, because you have a wider array of ways to express yourself and you can make a statement and express your opinions with a a repertoire of a much bigger terminology list.
Besides, what makes you think Yoruba is more complex than Hausa? You don't even speak Hausa yet you are making judgements based on how it sounds to you? Is it Hausa that does not have special sounds?
There is no way you will learn Hausa as an adult and speak it to a Kano inner city born and bred person, that your non native accent in the pronunciation won't be picked up immediately.

That being said,

I once read somewhere that the Igbo language has a restricted list of adjectives, only 8 basic adjectives or there abouts.
Njo in Igbo can mean bad, it can mean Ugly, it can mean wicked, it can mean evil, it can mean so many things as long as it is a generally undesirable trait.

Now, that seems to me like a limiting language, especially given the fact that adjectives are the spice of Language oral and written literature.
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Very few Igbo native speakers can say they understand Igbo in the perfect sense of the word because of its multiplicity of dialects. A word can have up to 20 synonyms in Igbo. I bought a non-exhaustive Abriba (a dialect spoken in Abia) dictionary from the internet a while ago, and it was almost like a different world of Igbo, with many words that were foreign to me ( and this is only one dialect). General Igbo, is generally lazy and heavily diluted and suffering from neglect by the a lot of Igbos hence its often one-dimensionality. But if it means to be spoken there are deep taps of words or expressions at the disposal to the proficient; not to mention new coinages that have come out recently like 'mahadum' (university) . Igbo has lots of adjectives. Bad can mean 'njo' (or 'ajo') 'mpu', 'alu' etc.

This the way to go. I am glad he didn't allow his academic handicap prevent him from realizing these feats. I am sure there are millions of these stories on the continent waiting to be unearthed.

Nice one.

investnow2013:
Harbour Industrial district is one the biggest industrial area in Anambra state and Nigeria with over 300 medium & large scale industries

Nice one

Where is your evidence that 'Majority of Ancient Egyptians were stock of different black people'. Ancient Egyptians were Africans who simply mixed up with non-Africans as time went on. You find such mixed people across the African continent. In Nigeria we have a population of mixed African and Asian origin. Scholars like Diop and many others others have shown using African languages, DNA, customs from West, Central,South and East Africa, that every African alive, has roots in Ancient Egypt. Ancient Egypt's African relationships or ancestry wasn't solely restricted to an area of the continent but the entire continent.

igbodefender:


Tabulu, suga, baturi, kishin
Source: http://www.igbodefender.com/2017/06/11/some-new-igbo-words-like-tabulu/

It is because of people like you that the Igbo language has been mangled out of shape. Go for a course in Igbo or buy written books in Igbo to improve your igbo, and stop spoiling it.The Igbo language has native words for table (okpokoro), Sugar (okpete/okpoto, ọtọbili), Kitchen (usekwu). A new word has recently been coined for battery, 'obigwe', which literally means, 'the heart of a machine'.