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Ifechidere
@Ifechideere
Thinking in systems and creating mental models that help individuals, corporates and society grow.
Jul 14, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Next 10 years, Igbo accounts will rinse and repeat content like this.

You retain culture by exporting it. And you only export what people need.

- How can palm wine from Nsukka be scientifically processed to last longer?

- Omugwo package: What kind of local postpartum care… https://t.co/6nTgzD4VKWtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
- Why isn’t Akwete fabric ubiquitous?

- Meek Mill talked about what kolanut did for his health. What’s the science behind it? How is it being exported and marketed?

- America has a crazy obesity/food problem. Are we marketing Okpa and it’s variants here and over there?
How can… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Mar 11, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I partly co-hosted the #AskPeterMbah Space yesterday.
My observation;

Peter is calm and well-spoke. He doesn’t strike me as a technocrat or one with the burden of public leadership.
He seemed like he knew the problems(like many do), but without detailed solutions to them. His economic interests for the State seem ambitious but superficial. An emphasis on a mineral/natural resource economy didn’t augur well with me. Well, his height in the oil industry explains this.
Aug 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
But you guys know that Ogbedi Dipo is a professional tribalist. He doesn’t hide his near disgust for Igbo people.
Regards his tribe highly and almost as if is annoyed by the Igbo as a contender to whatever his people have. So, this unspoken competition drives his disgust. You laud an Igbo person for doing good, then he quickly reminds you that a certain Yoruba is doing even more.

When an Igbo person exhibits bad behavior, it gets a whole tribal tag but he never speaks of such about his own tribe.
Aug 6, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Nigeria’s gutter politics, when it consumes you, it makes you so daft.

Let’s explain this once and for all.

Lagos should not be compared to Abuja or other Nigerian States.
Access to the sea & only trading ports in Nigeria, population of 20M, special status in Nigeria, once capital of Nigeria. A trading port as at 1865 when the Portuguese came.
Oil producing. Access to trade with neighboring African countries (with a trade surplus). Access to foreign labour. The international window of Nigeria etc have made it to be compared with Singapore & co
Oct 23, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Achievements under 14 days

- Took the protest from Twitter to the streets
- Behind tribes, ideological/personal differences, we came together to present our demands
- SARS was disbanded
- Governors were forced to realise that they are answerable to us
- We crowdfunded N143M - Even as we remained leaderless, we had the most efficient coordination of medicals, refreshment, legal and other sundry supplies for protests

- Those massacred at Lekki still sang the anthem and shouted #Endsars while they were shot at

- We raised an army of believers in Nig.
Jun 12, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Many people do not know that the Cameroon pepper you buy is Ose Nsukka.

Well, I'm not so sure, but according to the story, some Cameroonian students in the 1980s in UNN took the seeds home and grew.

But because the pepper did'nt grow well outside Nsukka, they resorted grinding it. This is why there isn't really fresh Cameroon pepper around, but dried ground one.

A 2008 research tested the pepper outside Nsukka and it grew well in Enugu North, West and East.

I just saw a list of millionaire local Nsukka farmers now and I'm shocked.
Jun 5, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I wasn't always this Pan-Igbo. It grew and was nurtured in Nsukka. And more because I studied History

It's in class one day,that I decided that none of my kids would have an English name

Prof came in, took attendance and gave extra marks to the few who hadn't English names lol He marked attendance and would ask they meaning of the English name, emphasising that many lacked substance 😂

'What's your name?'

'Jennifer'

'What's the meaning?'

'Clear vision'

'And you're using glasses' 😭😂

Nsukka shaped me!
I was a different person before I went there
Jun 5, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I went through some colonial documents a years back and discovered that the 'Onye Wa Wa' stereotype was started by the British.

I'll explain.

Wa Wa literally means 'No No' in Nkanu Igbo language.

For context, the Nkanu people had a 'special love' for land and farming. The Brit said it was difficult to convince them to give out their lands to build schools, churches, courts or whatever.

They could lease to their Igbo neighbours, but they never sold lands.

When the Brits brought papers to sign or made propositions, all they said was 'Wa Wa'
Apr 13, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Achebe talked about a term he called, The Igbo Problem and it's obvious on Twitter.

He said,
'Though they are boisterous and hard working, their individual pride may get in their way of development. Where they see themselves as competitors rather than compatriots' ... In dragging and calling names, we might think it's just bants.
Deep in your heart, you know it's not.

I'm specific about this Igbo Sovereign Fund we want to begin.

When you discriminate amongst yourselves, people feel no need to come together to work for development.
Nov 15, 2019 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
The Aro Confederacy: Economic, Political and Spiritual Control in Igboland 17th and 18th C.

The Aro are a naturally stubborn, fierce, dogged, nomadic people originally from Arochukwu, present Abia State. But, are almost everywhere now.

Arondizuogu of Imo
Achi of Enugu... Ezeagu,Udi of Enugu
Many other parts in Abia
Ikwerre, Kalabari, Opobo (Rivers)Ebonyi.

Their itenerant nature caused them to plant their seeds in areas around the Night of Biafra.

Economic Stronghold:

The Igbo engaged in long distance trading. Some distance that took days...
Nov 12, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I just came back from Church where we had a discussion.

They asked 'What are the practices in your village that you know a Christian shouldn't be associated with?'

Ndi mmadu bidoro na a ko

Ozo Title, New Yam Festival, Title taking, Masquerades.

One man added that.. His Priests took some of them to destroy a square where the people assembled, without foot wares.

He said once anyone entered the square, one must tell the truth. But a traditionalist thing.

Lol. I stood up to contribute and they opened their mouths
Oct 23, 2019 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
The Urbanization of cultures for Development: A case of the Igbo Umuada

Most of what we call culture is human-made. No meteor landed with some scrolls to be obeyed.

I'm fact, there're heavy cultural disparities in the pre and post 1900 Igbo land.

The Umuada is a group of... both single and unmarried women of a clan.

Historically,the Umuada are venerated because they represent the most sacred god the Igbo - the Ala(Earth)! Because from the wombs come life,so does 'life' come from Ala or Ani.

They hold a spiritual, ethical & social-political office.
Oct 15, 2019 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
I'd teach you something.
The people that didn't understand or misconstrued @sugabelly are just a little uninformed.

She made a case for the dichotomy between Pre-colonial Igbo political/social institutions (in respect to women) and those of the post-colonial times.

I'l explain If you read Basden's colonial works. Like other Brit writers,they wrote about the Igbo women in the same eyes which they saw their European women
Not until the American Progressive era of 1890s, with the 'fight' for European women's inclusion.
To work, to have their own identity!
Sep 18, 2019 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
THE MIDDLE MAN VALUE CHAIN: THE BRITISH AND CHINESE CASE IN IGBOLAND

The 1901 Aro Expedition of 1901 was a violent ousting of the Aro merchants(middle men) who ran a cartel of slaves in the Niger area

The British grew from staying around the shores to desiring to enter the.. hinterlands.

They had found a cure for malaria and wanted to eliminate the middle man (Aro merchants mostly) who were the feeder bloc of slaves and other wares.

The Aro merchants refused and it led to a violent attack against them-In fact, 'cos the Aro were popular, they...
May 30, 2019 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
There are facts we've studied as Historians that many do not know

1)Opkoroko(stock fish) saved many children from death.The protein, iron and oil component cured their Kwashiokor. Red Cross brought them from Norway.

2)The unprepared Biafran army... gave the Nig. Army a good run at the beginning. Under 3 years, they refined their Oil, built Bombs(Ogbunigwe), amoured vehicles and tanks, air bomber etc.