Have you asked yourself how the Igbo survived the £20 after the war?

Aside apprenticeship system, communities were able to pull resources to send their best brains abroad to study and give back to the system.

Those doing businesses were able to raise money, support others.
Those in different parts of the country invited their brothers and show them the way.

Apprenticeship system was of different types.

1. You serve for specific years, get settled, then you start your business.

2. You learn business then they give you money to start yours.
Today, see where the Igbo are. The shock& surprise of such economic growth despite £20 saga attracted envy from others who claim no one make it without blood money?

Ọgwụ ego ọ dị easy?

What you saw in Ọba was a replica of aka nri kwọọ aka ekpe aka ekpe akwọọ aka nri.
You cannot delete the fact that the Igbo are hardworking and support one another. Forget the mantra: "Igbo don't love themselves".

When you will know whether they do or not is when you dare one of them as outsider, e buo gị ebu. Just as every humans, we have our differences and
we have our methods of settling our dispute. This is enshrined in our cultural adage: "iwe nwanne adịghị eru n'ọkpụkpụ".

Envy made some to want you to feel apologetic for being onye Igbo.

When an Igbo man has some issues, the way support will be pulled will shock you.
Forget that political system of things and structure of Nigeria has dealt with everyone, yet, our cultural ideology is there.

Visit all the markets in Nigeria for instance, see them. They brought people from different villages and showed them the way. Igwe bụ ike.
Akụ Ruo Ụlọ became a motto of progressive Igbo society. If you are rich, expatriate to your kinsmen. Go home and change some life.

That is why there are many billionaires doing well in businesses in ala Igbo. Ask them question, there must be one ọga somewhere who helped him.
Igbo apprenticeship system has trained and made more billionaires than any school in the world. The reason Harvard Business School is adopting the model.

Igbo dị omimi. Ụwa m ụwa asaa aga m abụ onye Igbo.

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If you don't want bride price to be paid,
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Before you use your hand scatter your own because of what you read on social media, know about this and know peace.
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