It has been stated that changes in skin coloration may accompany inflammatory reaction. In this context, the purpose of this case report is to present a patient of the Igbo ethnic group in SouthEastern Nigeria with reference to his developing malignant melanoma in a long standing leg ulcer. Hitherto, the association had been mainly that of squamous carcinoma. As for prevention, research in deve...

Much importance is attached to the autopsy in its relation to forensic medicine [1]. An exposition of this theme came from Finland [2] with reference to recognizing the hidden role of malignancy. Therefore, this paper presents an autopsy that exposed a special histological type of lung cancer among the Igbo ethnic group [3]. Hitherto, the concept of lung cancer was its being a disease of Wester...

Background: Natural radionuclides are always present in the environment. Human exposure to the background radiation is inevitable. It is therefore important to assess health risk associated with these radionuclides. Materials and Methods: The distribution of natural radionuclides 238U, 232Th and 40K in soil samples collected from all the twenty (20) local Governments headquarter areas in Ogun s...

Properly written texts in Igbo, a low resource African language, are rich in both orthographic and tonal diacritics. Diacritics are essential in capturing the distinctions in pronunciation and meaning of words, as well as in lexical disambiguation. Unfortunately, most electronic texts in diacritic languages are written without diacritics. This makes diacritic restoration a necessary step in cor...

Objective: To adapt and validate the original English version of World Health Organization Quality Life Questionnaire-version for older adults (WHOQOL-OLD) in Igbo language, culture, environment. Participants: Community-dwelling (≥65 years) from Nnewi community Nigeria. Methods: This was a cross-cultural adaptation validation study. The WHOQOL-OLD translated into synthesized, backward subjected...

Within the framework of a transcultural, psychodynamic and holistic approach, Edeh's concept of Man as Mma-di (in Igbo language in Nigeria, mma-di = good that is, and mma-ndu = the beauty of Life) is presented as the nucleus of his philosophical articulation from an African metaphysical-anthropological perspective. In this context, some reflections are shown on the following topics: human creat...