Remember, next week Thursday, a week today, what I have been working for will be unveiled. My Igbo learning website.

The content go shock you. All of you who want to learn Igbo from the scratch and those who want to perfect their writing and communicative Igbo,
I got your back this time.

Our e-commerce platform too to shop audiobooks in Igbo and ebooks will be available. Our Igbo lessons are bilingual.

We speak Igbo and explain in English. We got it right this time having foreign learners and second learners students in mind.
Each course has study materials attached to them as well. I have not been replying DMs, please forgive me. I am not snubbing you or feeling too big. I will reply everything. I don't sleep. I don't rest. I work round the clock to ensure this is possible.
Yes I post, writing to me is like drinking good wine. My phone number for weeks cannot be reached as I needed no distraction. It has been on flight mode.

The first set of the contents will be ready by next week Thursday so that you can enroll and study anytime you want,
while I keep working to improve other areas of Igbo study. Every course is lifetime access. It is yours for life. You buy once. I am hopeful you will love what I have created. I will explain by next week Thursday— 7 days from now. .
You can get Igbo Folktales ebook about the tortoise. Igbo bilingual e-book for learners in all level (basic—advanced) and Igbo audiobook of my novel "Nwamma" as well as the e-book.

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29 Jul
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
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28 Jul
"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.
Read 4 tweets
28 Jul
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.

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Read 7 tweets
28 Jul
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:

Who is an osu?
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28 Jul
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.
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27 Jul
OSU IS NOT A CASTE SYSTEM

Osu is osu.

Osu is not a caste system.

The Europeans used that term "caste".

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.
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