{"id":222725,"date":"2026-02-03T23:51:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-govt-disclaims-approval-of-textbook-excluding-igbo-history\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T23:51:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:51:23","slug":"nigerian-govt-disclaims-approval-of-textbook-excluding-igbo-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-govt-disclaims-approval-of-textbook-excluding-igbo-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Govt Disclaims Approval of Textbook Excluding Igbo History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em>The textbook, &#8220;Living History&#8221;, reportedly excluded the history and culture of the Igbo people, according to several posts on social media.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The Nigerian government has disclaimed reports that it approved a certain History textbook for use in Nigerian secondary schools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The textbook, &#8220;Living History&#8221;, reportedly excluded the history and culture of the Igbo people, according to several <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DUPdbYYEoPH\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posts on social media<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">But the publisher, Accessible Publishers, has denied the claims that it deliberately&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602030532.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The textbook, &#8220;Living History&#8221;, reportedly excluded the history and culture of the Igbo people, according to several posts on social media. The Nigerian government has disclaimed reports that it approved a certain History textbook for use in Nigerian secondary schools. The textbook, &#8220;Living History&#8221;, reportedly excluded the history and culture of the Igbo people, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":222726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00301595:32dcec09521390f5895b4a01df6fc617:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,8113,53561,31408,4357,7099,10548,257,393,482,254,14168],"class_list":["post-222725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approval","tag-disclaims","tag-excluding","tag-govt","tag-history","tag-igbo","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-south-africa-today","tag-textbook"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00301595:32dcec09521390f5895b4a01df6fc617:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}