Thread by @maazi_ogbonnaya

Around 2012, my second year in the University, I made small money from my books and bought my tuketuke lady's motorcycle. I remember going to Obolo Afọ to buy the motorcycle which I was using to groove the campus and the whole of Nsụka;

that was after signing agreements with some publishers that commissioned me to write for them.

From my motorcycle, I was able to visit places like Ịbagwa Eka, Akụ, Leja, Ogbodo, Ịbagwa Anị, Okpuje, Edem Anị, Ede Ọbala, Opi Egụ, Opi Ụnọ, Obimo,

Ọbụkpa, Ovoko— Ụmụmgbabe, Ụmụshile, Ụmụjiọha, Amegụ, Amechala; Nkpologwu, Adanị, Imilike Egụ, Imilike Ụnọ, Enugwu Ezike— Ogurute, Ikpuịga, Amechala, Ụmụogbo, Ụmụopu, Ajị, etc. I can tell you that I have been to all the nooks& crannies of old Nsụka province.

I love eating natives food such as ọkpa, nri ọka, ayaraya ji, ayaraya ọka, ịgbangwụ, otipiri, etc.

I had old men in various communities— ndị ishi I visited for stories. They loved me and many of them wished me to marry from Nsụka 🤣🤣🤣. They love that inquisitive boy.

You speak Nsụka from your nose, I understand it. I speak to some extent. The ones I used to buy things cheaper in the market like Ogige, Nkwọ Ịbagwa, Afọ Opi, Orie Igboeze, Orie Ọba, etc.

I love watching the traditional festivities of the Nsụka people such as burial rites and traditional marriages.

I was once liking a young lady in Nsụka and someone told me to prepare for "Ishi eshu esaa". I was too inquisitive to understand what that meant.

I thought he meant 7 heads of a cow. Of course I told him it was just likeness in fact I don't like her again 🤣🤣🤣. I learnt later by attending a traditional marriage that Ishi eshu esaa means 7 gallons of palm wine.
These gallons are very big oo, like almost drum of kaịkaị.

I love drinking Amechala Enugwu-Ezike palm wine and Leja palm wine. I learnt the saying of the Leja— ovu eja eje Leja mẹ Leja niine bụ eja eja.

I love watching oriọkpa and akatakpa— masquerades so popular in Nsụka. Let me not talk of Ọmabe of the Igbo-Etiti.

I deserve a statue in Nsụka...in fact me and my motorcycle 🤣🤣🤣.

Nsụka is a nice place to be. The weather, the atmosphere strike to be the best in the whole South East. Trees are not cut down like other places.

I lived in Nsụka for 8 years even after my school and NYSC, I was moving around the country from Nsụka until I finally left for....eeehm eeehm.

I will tell you my experience with Mmọnwụ Oriọkpa and Akatakpa.... The masquarades.

Make I pause fess!