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Over the week, I have received several messages in different social media platforms from different people from different nationalities, tribes and race.
They want to know more about Igbo people, culture, language, history. They are willing to learn. Some Haitians, South African women, Ghanains, etc have reached to me to learn Igbo language.
Many Igbo youths and adults had no privilege of growing up in Igbo land, hence, they know
nothing or little about Igbo culture, history and language. It is on this basis, I've revived Ọnụkwube TV to be a home of Igbo studies. The Channel isn't only teaching Igbo language, but culture, history, literature, folklores, etc.
Everyone who wants to learn everything
about Igbo people, Igbo land, Igbo History and language should subscribe to this channel.
The channel introduces a topic called "Soro M Chịa" [Laugh with Me"] We already have two short video clips on that regard. You could listen to some stories and laugh.
Not all the time we
will be very serious with our contents. We will play... ụwa ka mma n'egwuregwu. Anyị ga na-akọ mgbu at times. We are Ọnụkwube. Everything happening in ala Igbo. Any breaking news, we will be updating.
Remember, because of our wider dream and vision to make this channel a
haven for Igbo studies, our language will not only be Igbo. We can use English, Igbo, pidgin depend on what we are talking about.
The lies told about Igbo History. The history books written by foreigners to tell about us, it's time we tell our own stories not just in our own
way but the way it is without any bias and sentiment.
What should you do now?
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stories the world cannot give all the space needed to tell.
Here is your opportunity. Your children too will benefit. Akụkọ ifo is here.
Subscribe now and watch the recent contents, then wait for the subsequent releases.
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Ụtụtụ ọma as good morning
Ehihie ọma as good afternoon
Mgbede ọma as good evening
are not core Igbo greetings. I don't know how people came up with this. You are incapacitating the Igbo language by showcasing we don't have our own greetings aside translating the English
greetings. This transliteration is needless.
In the rule of transliteration, it's needed when there is no option. We have plenty options and what we greet as ndị Igbo.
In the morning:
* Ị bọọla chi?
* Ị saala chi?
* I tetala?
* I tetago
* Ị gbapela? etc.
These are
our core morning greetings. Some dialects of Igbo have their own unique morning greetings aside the listed ones. Nsụka will say: "ị bọọ?". Ngwa have theirs.
In all, one thing appears to be in common. The interrogative nature of Igbo greeting, especially morning.
Igbo had a very organised society. Some of the things we go to the universities to study today had a place in Igbo cultural society.
What is ike ekpe?
When a man gets old, before he dies , or when a man is very sick,
he will say a lot of things about people who owe him some money, the ones he owe, the lands he did not buy but used as collateral, his properties, how they are going to be shared, the ones to be shared, the ones not to be shared; his lands in the hands of another man.
This is called ike ekpe.
We know in English, there is something like "Will", but I put it to you that ike ekpe in Igbo culture is deeper than will.
In ike ekpe, a man or woman may say how he or she wants to be buried; where he or she will be buried. Some will say: "don't take
Last year, I wanted to change to another apartment in Abuja. I got a property agent who showed me a house. It caught my fancy. We met the caretaker and agreed on the terms. I paid.
A few days later, I was called to meet the landlady. She saw me and asked:
"Where do you work?"
The question was funny to me. She said she wanted to be sure if one could renew the payment of the house. That she doesn't joke with her money oo.
"What tribe are you?" She asked.
"Igbo"
"What?" She screamed. "I have said I'll never give Igbo man my house. I don't like them"
"There is no problem madam. I'm Igbo and there is nothing I or anyone can do to change it. I will never feel sorry for being Igbo. I am an unapologetic Igbo man. Very proud one at that. You know what, I am not in a haste to look for house. Where I'm living is fine. I still have
It's very wrong to look down on people whether you know them or not.
So today, I was going to a very important office in Maitama, Abuja for something. I didn't know the actual location. I was asking a driver at the Nicon Junction Park, how I could locate the place...
A poorly
dressed man, sitting on the passenger's seat of the public vehicle stuck out his head:
"What are you going there to do?" He asked.
He's a northern guy. Clad in almost worn out native dress and cap. He was putting on flat footwear.
I smiled and told him that my visit was
confidential, but I needed to meet so so person in so so office for so so thing.
"Ok, I will show you the place".
I thanked him.
We left. The anịkịrịja vehicle swung on the road leading to Maitama District, with beautiful houses waving at us. In a few minutes...he alighted