The present Igbo dictionary is a much revised and expanded version of the Igbo dictionary published by Kay
Williamson, Ethiope Press, Benin City in 1972. Professor Williamson died in early January 2005, with it
still unpublished. The revision was prepared in the 1970s and 1980s and was typed camera-ready in a
manuscript submitted to the same publishers in 1983. The publishers first delayed in responding and then
finally admitted they had lost the copy.