<em><u>Igbo, also called Ibo, people who live mainly in southeastern Nigeria, and speak that language.</u></em>
<u>Religious conflicts are often caused by the use of religion to promote independent non-African churches, and Christianity provoked that conflict in the Igbo people</u>.
<u>On the one hand, there was the Muslim north</u>, <em><u>prepared under the English indirect rule, which accommodated</u></em> <u>the sharia legal system</u>; <u>On the other hand, there was the Christian</u> <u><em>/ animist south, guided</em></u> <u>by the British-secular regime.</u>