A discussion of imperatives and directive speech acts in Ihanzu, based on data collected with Nicolas Nalingigwa Gideon during the course "Linguistic Field Methods". Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change. Acknowledgement and citation: Engelke, Verena. 2022. Imperatives and Directive Speech Acts in Ihanzu. Talk given at the Ihanzu Symposium, Bielefeld University, Germany. 29/09/2022.