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Nigeria Election 2007
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Tupu abanye n'afo ohuu, ogadi nma ka onye obula tule n'uche ya KEDU NDI BU EZIGBO NDI IGBO?. (Before we enter the new year, it will be nice for everybody to think about the question, Who are the TRUE IGBOS?. One of us in my State of residence asked that question a few months ago because the Igbo oragnisation was taken to court by another Igbo. A few days later, I read from the Igbo Forum where someone wrote that ufodu Ndi Igbo bu Igbo site nani na aha ha (some Igbo people are Igbo by name only).He gave the acronym, IINO (Igbo In Name Only) I'll go further and say, BY LAST NAME ONLY. Such people prefer to be called by their English first names given to them during 'baptism' by their various churches forgetting that Igbo names are also 'Christian' names. Ufodu Ndia amaghi ka esi ASU, GUA ma obu DEE ASUSU Igbo yet THEY CLAIM TO BE IGBO just because their parents happen to be Igbo. They know nothing about omenala Igbo (Igbo culture). Don't misunderstand me because Ezigbo Ndi Igbo welcome every person with either Igbo first or last names or both. Don't blame them because when Igbo bu Igbo n'obodo Naijiria, their parents occupied various government positions both in the Federal and Regional levels by then mostly in the North, West and Mid-West. So about 85% of Ndi Igbo in the diaspora now were born outside of Igboland. Some who were born before the war only visited Alaigbo during Xmasand because they had to go back to their homeland. This reminds me when Dr. Okere responded to my ozi ekele ekereshimeshi, he wrote, "Please do not grade my Igbo vocab because I was born in London". I asked myself whether he had a clue to what I was going to write. Now to the point. Those who were born outside Alaigbo ALSO ATTENDED both their Primary, Secondary and anyother Post Secondary schools outside of Alaigbo. They even learnt those other peoples' languages, Hausa, Yoruba, Efik, Ibibio, Ijaw etc. and NEGLECTED ASUSU IGBO. They speak those languages fluently better than the ethnic indigenes themselves. Kedu ka isi asi na umuaka ndia muru amaghi asusu na omenala Igbo ebe ndi muru ha enweghi nke ha ma?. There was nothing wrong in most of our parents in those days working as Civil Servants in every nook and corner of Naijiria where most Diasporan Ndi Igbo were born. That was what the then Administrator of Eastern Nigeria after the civil war, the late Ukpabi Asika called, Onye ube ruru ya racha. My point is that some of us don't envy those people because ube ruru ha. There are a few us who were not priviledged to have such parents and also did not have "Abraham na Nna". These few are the people who were born and went to school in Igboland both Primary and Secondary schools and also have both First & Last names na aha Igbo. Ugbua, umunne m na umunna m were ire unu gua eze unu ogu, KEDU NDI BU EZIGBO NDI IGBO?. When you listen to various prominent people from all over the world either at the United Nations or other International gatherings, those people speak their various languages be it, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Jewish(Hebrew) etc. It is left to English Speakers to find Translators. We can't even speak our language during Igbo only Nzuko(Ogbako). Yet you want to know who are the TRUE IGBO may be by last name only. We are now reading of Igbo language becoming extinct in the next Twenty years. I don't know how many of us living now will be there to witness it. Ahu (Aru) ike na ogologo ndu diri onye obula nime afo ohuu, Puku Abuo na Asaa (2007). |
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