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Maazị Ogbonnaya Okoro

@maazi_ogbonnaya

22 Jul

@renoomokri

Dear Reno @renoomokri,

You deleted my comment and blocked me from commenting on your Facebook page cos I told you that your nugget is now lacking maggi.

Why did I say that?

You boasted that Itshekiri had Igbo slaves centuries before the British colonization..

According to you, after the British banned slavery, you Itshekiri people were forced to set them free. Some returned to Igbo land, others remained with you and gradually formed a new language called **** (you can't mention) About 200,000 of them are still with you.

Reno, you went further as a Harvard-Oxford historian you are to say: "I will not reveal the name of this tribe called ****, because I do not want to offend them, but they are in Delta State)".

You said also: if they speak; Igbo, Bini, Itshekiri and Portuguese will understand.

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Maazị Ogbonnaya Okoro

@maazi_ogbonnaya

21 Jul

Just a reminder:

CHIDỊNMA OR CHIDỊMMA: WHICH ONE IS SPELT CORRECTLY AND WHY?

Over the years, grammatical anomalies have been committed regarding ways to write some Igbo names or words. On social media, series of "nma" and "mma" challenge have taken place.

Many people opined that their dialect pronounce "nma", others said no, it is "mma". Some said "mma" means mother while "nma" means beauty. They are phonologically unexposed to know the importance of tone marking in Igbo heteronyms.

Others say "mma" is knife while "nma" means beauty.

Let me first initiate the idea that "nma" is anglicised form of mma which does not follow the phonotatic rules of the Igbo language.

In Igbo language, "M" and "N" are consonants. But unique in a way. They are syllabic nasals.

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Maazị Ogbonnaya Okoro

@maazi_ogbonnaya

21 Jul

Onoh
Obilor
Ezeh
Eneh
Uzor

Are you serious? Like you are still writing your names this way?

Ok introduce me to Enoch, an English man that spells his name as Enọk. Can I see an English man that spells Anderson as Andasịn just to Igbonise it?

No you can't see any. Then why are you feeling that you are exposed& educated by spelling your Igbo names wrongly as mentioned above?

You are Ono and not Onoh. You are Obilọ and not Obilor. You are Eze and not Ezeh. You are Ene and not Eneh. You are Ụzọ and not Uzor.

Why?

When you end a word with a consonant, it's no longer Igbo word. The rule of Igbo Language is that consonant doesn't end a word. Only vowel ends a word. There is no consonant cluster as well. The Igbo syllable is a consonant and a vowel coming together as a single syllable.

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Maazị Ogbonnaya Okoro

@maazi_ogbonnaya

19 Jul

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.

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Maazị Ogbonnaya Okoro

@maazi_ogbonnaya

19 Jul

So now, Obi Cubana will give 300 people 1M each. Staking 300 million to empower youths. Imagine those 300 people helping one person each, that's additional 300 making it 600. The 600 now help one person each, that will increase to 1200. Now 1200 help one person each that is 2400

2400 help one person each, that is 4800. The circle keeps growing.

Now they will tell those they helped who assisited them. All fingers point at Obi Cubana.

Now he has an event, those 4800 millionaires enter and begin to paint everywhere with money to express their gratitude,

those of you social media financial analyst nwa nkịta who always neck- bent on determining how people spend their own money, ebido kọwa nonsense, how it's ọgwụ ego, how they shouldn't have spent such money. How it's a show off. Make your own money, spend the way you want.

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Maazị Ogbonnaya Okoro

@maazi_ogbonnaya

19 Jul

Issue of Bride Price in Igbo Culture: A historical Journey into our Past& Present.

"Bride price" is an English rendition of what is now ụgwọ isi nwaanyi which initially wasn't the original term for that Igbo cultural practise. Culture is dynamic

"A naghị ere nwaanyị ere"

This is an Igbo adage stating that a woman cannot be sold.

Let's get to business of discourse.

Ask your grandparents what is called "ịtụ ngọ". In some Igbo culture it's called "ngọ" or "ịgba ngọ" or "ịkwụ ngọ nwaanyị".

It is this culture that was replaced with what we now called bride price which in some cases, cause some of our young people to see marriage as a big task. You must be over materially rich before you get married. The rapid change in the societal value for money makes it so.

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