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ANARCHY/INSECURITY IN NIGERIA (AFRICA): TIME TO DELETE THE COLONIAL MAP
1) During the harmattan of 1884, as the Africans were busy mending their houses and barns, the European powers gathered in Berlin, round an oak…
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IGBO FOREFATHERS: IS IT THAT THEY DID NOT WRITE OR THAT WE CANNOT READ?
By Rev. Fr. Angelo Chidi Unegbu ([email protected]) 24 April 2021 1) Since the beginning of human history, humans have at every age directly or indirectly,…
MOTHERS‘ DAY IN NIGERIA (CATHOLICS)
On the 14th of March this year, many Christian communities celebrated their mothering or mothers’ Sunday in Nigeria. Today being 18th April, Catholics are celebrating…
EGO AND RELIGION
I once reproached some Igbo Christians who were demolishing and setting on fire an ancient Igbo native shrine and sacred objects. They told me that…
ADA JESUS AND ODUMEJE SAGA
1) Any sociologist who has followed meticulously the discussions generated by the Ada Jesus and Odumeje saga would not have any difficulties identifying the reasons…
DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY
Catholics among us will discover that today’s gospel reading taken from John 20:19-31 ends with the following sentence: “Jesus performed many other signs in the…
HONESTY AND THE OLD IGBO SOCIETY: THE MARKET THIEF
“Honesty and fair dealing were pretty much taken for granted in the market. You could price a commodity and then take it out of the…
MY CULTURE IS MY IDENTITY: MY STORY
By Rev. Fr Angelo Chidi Unegbu ([email protected]) 1) During my 4th year (SS1) as a minor seminarian, I and my cousin and classmate Fr. Elias…
THE COMING OF CHRISTIANITY TO ARONDIZUOGU
By Rev Fr Angelo Chidi Unegbu ([email protected]) 1) The story of the coming of Christianity in Arondizuogu began in 1910 with a blind man named…
THE DEATH OF JESUS AND THE POWER OF THE CROWD: WHY NIGERIA IS NOT WORKING
1) The poor Pilate had nothing to gain with the death of Jesus but he had everything to lose if he had decided otherwise in…
THE DEATH OF JESUS AND THE FOLLY OF BETRAYAL: THE IGBO/NIGERIAN CONNECTION
By Rev Fr Angelo Chidi Unegbu 1) Do we realise that treason is considered to be the highest offence against the state? This means that…
ON THE LAST SUPPER AND IGBA ORIKO NDU IN IGBOLAND: THEN EBONYI HAPPENED!
I had wanted to reflect today on how communal meal had also existed in Igbo culture since time immemorial and on how we could build…