Abstract:
This work examines Igbo Community Association in Katsina city, the administrative headquarters of Katsina Emirate Council, Katsina Local Government Area, and Katsina State Capital. Through the use of primary and secondary sources, the paper illustrates how Igbo Community Association, which is one of the migrant community associations in Katsina city, played key roles in fostering intergroup relations with the host community, and other migrant communities, as well as in promoting love, unity, peace, and progress, among the Igbo people. The association promotes the welfare of its members through giving of credit and loans, support of the needy, assistance to new arrivals of Igbo people in the city, and promotion of Igbo cultural heritage, while enhancing recognition of other cultures. The paper also revealed that the association has tremendously given birth to a united Igbo ethnic group, aside from its role as the mouthpiece of the Igbo community in the city, and also played active roles in conflict resolutions of not only its members but also between Igbo migrants and the host community. Thus, through critical analysis, the paper argues that the association has also promoted entrepreneurship opportunities in the city. This has made Igbo people strategic development partners, and with a long tradition of entrepreneurial ethics, which has built a powerful business empire that curtails poverty amongst its diaspora community in Katsina city.
Keywords: Igbo, Migrant, Community, Association, Katsina, City.
DOI: 10.36349/sokotojh.2026.v14i01.004
author/Bashir Maiwada, Rabiu Muhammad Ahmad & Mahmoud Dantsoho
journal/Sokoto JH | Vol. 14, Issue 1 | Dec. 2026
