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This is your Week 6 Igbo language practice session from Igbo Daily Drops — 15 sentences learnt over the past week in Igbo daily drops, built for real-life use. Commands, requests, questions, and the kind of warm, human phrases that make the difference between knowing a language and living in it.

Work through each sentence at your own pace. You will hear it once, then again — then it is your turn. The sentences this week move from saying where you are going, what you are doing, resting, to asking how much one should pay.

The Igbo sentences we learnt this week are :

A na m aga orụ — I am going to work

A na m aga ahịa — I am going to the market

A na m ala ụlọ — I am going home

A na m eri nri — I am eating food

A na m anụ mmiri — I am drinking water

A na m eri ji — I am eating yam

A na m amụ asụsụ Igbo — I am learning the Igbo language.

Ọ bụ asụsụ nna m — It is my father's language.

A na m amụta ihe ọhụrụ — I am learning something new.

A na m ehi ụra — I am sleeping

A na m ezu ike — I am resting

A na m ege ntị — I am listening

A na m azụta ji — I am buying yam.

A na m azụta ncha — I am buying soap.

Ego ole ka a na-ere ya? — How much is it being sold for?

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For millions of people, Jamaica is the ultimate Caribbean paradise. But for many Jamaicans, getting to the beach isn't as simple as it seems.

After spending more than a year investigating, ITV News travelled across the island to find out why communities say they're being shut out from their own coastline. From the famous Bob Marley Beach in Bull Bay to Montego Bay and Puerto Seco, we hear from fishermen, surfers, local residents, campaigners, lawyers, business owners and Cedella Marley as they debate who should have access to Jamaica's beaches.

Supporters of private developments argue investment has transformed neglected beaches, improving safety, facilities and tourism. Critics say rising development, historic laws and new government policies are making it harder for ordinary Jamaicans to enjoy the coastline they call home. We examine both sides of one of Jamaica's biggest and most emotional public debates.

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Why many Jamaicans say public beach access is disappearing
The battle over Bob Marley Beach
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Why recent hurricanes have intensified the debate over the coastline
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🐍 Join Maazi Nnabe and embark on an exciting educational journey as we explore the fascinating world of slithering creatures! In this fun and engaging video, Maazi Nnabe introduces children to the Igbo and English names of some incredible animals that slither.

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⁣🎙 From Shoot the Breeze Episode 251 on the Bitter Medicine Podcast.
Brother Bakari takes the dress-code conversation in a different direction: if we are talking about respect, standards, and self-presentation, why don’t we also talk about the language we use with each other?
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The history of slavery did not begin in the cotton fields. Long before the transatlantic slave trade reached its full scale, Africa was already at the center of expanding networks of conquest, commerce, and slavery.

Episode 2: For All the Gold in the World begins at the end of the Middle Ages, when Europe started looking beyond its borders and realized that one of the world’s greatest sources of wealth lay in Africa.

Driven by the search for gold, the Portuguese were the first Europeans to sail along the African coast. Under the impulse of Henry the Navigator, they opened new maritime routes, established trading posts, and soon transformed their quest for African gold into a vast traffic in human beings.

From Lisbon to the Kingdom of Kongo, from Elmina to São Tomé, and eventually to Brazil, the Portuguese created the foundations of a new Atlantic system. Off the coast of Gabon, the island of São Tomé became a brutal laboratory for one of the most profitable exploitation models in history: the sugar plantation.

Through archives, historical analysis, and powerful storytelling, this second episode of Slavery Routes reveals how the pursuit of gold gave birth to a new slave economy — one that would reshape Africa, Europe, and the Americas for centuries.

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Chapters
▷ 00:00 - Introduction: How Slavery Helped Build Powerful Empires
▷ 01:50 - Portugal, Henry the Navigator, and the Search for African Gold
▷ 05:35 - One Million Africans Deported by European Slave Traders
▷ 09:00 - Africans in Lisbon: Segregation, Forced Labor, and “Impure” Professions
▷ 11:52 - 1453: The Fall of Eastern Trade Routes and Europe’s Atlantic Ambition
▷ 15:10 - European Kingdoms Invest in the Atlantic Expansion
▷ 17:15 - The Portuguese in the Kingdom of Kongo: Trade, Diplomacy, and Slavery
▷ 21:40 - The First Triangular Trade: São Tomé, Kongo, and Elmina
▷ 23:40 - São Tomé: Mass Deportation and the Birth of the Sugar Plantation
▷ 27:35 - The Gold Rush and Portuguese Expansion Toward Brazil
▷ 28:10 - 1516: The First African Slaves Arrive on the Brazilian Coast
▷ 31:44 - The Forgotten Memory of Black Slaves and Black Citizens in Lisbon
▷ 35:54 - Luanda and the Kingdom of Kongo: Epicenter of the Slave Trade to the Americas
▷ 38:00 - Angola and the Descendants of Survivors of the Slave Trade
▷ 40:00 - São Tomé: Fugitive Slaves, Mocambos, and Resistance
▷ 42:34 - Mixed-Race Elites and the Hierarchical Society of São Tomé
▷ 44:30 - Greed, Power, and the Decline of the Kingdom of Kongo
▷ 48:10 - Epilogue: Slave Revolts and the Fall of the São Tomé Experiment
▷ 51:20 - Credits

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Original title: Slavery Routes: 1375-1620: For All the Gold of the World
Directed by: Daniel Cattier, Juan Gélas, Fanny Glissant
Produced by: Compagnie des Phares et Balises, ARTE France
In co-production with: Kwassa Films, RTBF Télévision Belge, Lx Filmes, RTP, INRAP

© 2018, licensed by Incognita Distribution

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