Anytime you are watching African Magic epic, see everything there as a normal entertainment if you can, they don't depict any atom of Igbo cultural history. Their story on ọgbanje is wack. Is it dibịa? Is it other cultural belief system?
It hurts me the more that because of money, it is still our people, killing our own history without any proper research. Those producers and film makers are Igbo. The same storyline centers on massive cultural and historical destruction.
Some months ago, I was consulted by a film production company based in New York. They came across my profile on the internet and sent me email.
We worked together on some aspect of Igbo cultural festivals they want to include in their upcoming movie.
This movie will be produced next year, they are researching on it now making sure everything is in order.
When will Nollywood—Asaba branch begin to research properly without doing anything they like with their Eurocentric superiority syndrome?
Everything about us is projected in a bad light. Only killing one another cos of land until a man with worn out tie and coat carry a Bible, shake it, problem will stop, someone will confess.
If you truly know the Igbo history and watch the rubbish they do in the name of epic, you will shun the station for life.
It is high time we begin to question our Igbo Film makers. Everything is not money. Do proper research and produce your film.
I have come to realise that the easiest way to make money and buy the attention of others is projecting the Igbo as the worst humans on planet. It will make you to be known as a truth sayer. Someone who is detribalised. Someone who does not lie. A good person.
Once as an Igbo, you exhibited a self hate syndrome automatically you are good to go. Your market will sell.
In the end, Igbo na-egbu onwe ha. See Nollywood today with their wrong projection of "gods of our land", "heir apparent to the throne", "prince and princess",
"kingdom this Kingdom that". See the wrong narratives they have sold to the world.
In my Interview with The Sun published on 13th June, 2018 the caption is: "Nollywood Abusing Igbo Culture". I stated without mincing words the damage film will cause in the nearest future,
what they have caused already with their half-baked rhetorics in the name of creativity and storytelling.
That is not entertainment to me. Many think so low of Igbo culture and practices through many years of mental, psychological and virtual slavery.
We are now painting ourselves red. Ordinary research we cannot do. One will wake up and be shouting "gods of our land" up and down.
Anyone who legitimately made money now is narrated to have engaged in ọgwụ ego—money ritual. People now forget hard works.
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Now let us talk about history & migration. There are many reasons I don't believe in state. I don't confine my Igboness to mere geographical and political boundary called state. That's why when some ask me where I come from I tell them Igbo land. State has limited us as a people.
Take for instance, someone from Igboụzọ (Ibuza) will be claiming Delta Igbo or not Igbo at all because they are in Delta not knowing that the progenitor of Igboụzọ was from Isuama Igbo (now Imo State).
A man from Ọgwashị-Ukwu mightl be claiming Delta and not Igbo not knowing the progenitor was from Nshi (the original name of Nri)
Do you know that Ọrọfịa in Anambra State were descendants of Ọhafịa in Abịa State? Do you know that Ezza-Mpụ in Aninri Enugwu State migrated
"Ugezu J. Ugezu Think" should rethink over what he dishes out as Igbo culture and history in Nollywood. He should know better the damages some of of his "think" are doing on true identity of ndị Igbo.
This is not me calling him out, but I respect him a lot and again,
I must tell him the truth. "Amanatọ Kingdom, eze nwaanyị fighting eze mmụọ, Prince and Princess of Ogudu Kingdom, gods of our land and heir apparent to the throne" was never and is never part of us as ndị Igbo.
True Igbo dibịas are not what nollywood are projecting neither are their shrines look as useless as what the nollywood project.
Igbo Film makers in nollywood are not doing well when it comes to selling our culture to the world. They lack proper research.
There is nothing complicated in any aspect of Igbo culture but wrong narratives sold and passed down over the years is complicated. The kind of narrative you don't want to expunge from your mind is the real complication.
Every culture at a time has its importance to the people.
Culture is dynamic. Sticking to some even when it's not important to the time is a sheer ignorance and arụrụala.
You are dating someone, doing selima nkuli nkuli with someone, when it's time to marry the person you will remember he/she is osu. Who is fooling who?
Are you not osu by blood via mmekwe? Some even have babies before talking about osu.
Enough of the hypocrisy.
Ụnụ hapụ that thing. Forget "our culture our culture". Culture is a people. Culture is what people makes it to be.
Whether osu is an outcast, downcast, podcast, whatever cast it is...I don't care, people should stop already to segregate one another. We should educate ourselves so that we can educate our children. Our fathers took from their fathers who took from their fathers and the
segregation still linger mostly out of ignorance and cultural unawareness.
For me to bring it out is not because I want to paint us black, but because I know that some people still ask that stupid question when meeting a lady or a guy.
I am talking about 21st century you go on a date with someone who should be a university graduate or whatever, he or she will ask you:
"Are you an osu?"
This is no.nsense
There are many ways one could become an osu in the past. This comes to the question:
Osù is not outcast. Nobody outcasted them. They had their functions and importance to the society when the culture was prevalent.
I will elaborate more on osu. But please, there is no Igbo history that referred or refers anyone to as an outcast. Igbo did not have an outcast system.
But there was an "osu".
What makes everything sound dangerous is dwelling on the European definition of the system and term.
In the olden days, there was a time, a certain kind of classism existed in Igbo culture although universal. Such social class include:
1. Amaala or nwaafọ
2. Nwadiala/Nwadianị
3. Ohu
4. Osu
5. Ume
None of them was seen as an outcast. "Outcast" is an European word.