Those claiming that they are not Igbo, why do you not begin by challenging hundreds of Igbo history books and thousands of articles in various academic journals that grouped you under the Igbo people? For instance, Elizabeth Isichei, writing about…
(First published on 06.02.2022) In Port-Harcourt, I met a young lady who visited the family that was hosting me at the time. I started speaking in the Igbo language to her. “I don’t speak Igbo,” she said. “What is your…
How many books on the Nìgerian-Bīafran wăr have you read as a forner Easterner or as a Nīgerian? What facts do you have about that event? Do you know the main cause of the wăr? Do you know the events…
October, the 10th month in today’s Gregorian calendar, was originally the 8th month in the old Roman calendar (pre-46 B.C.). In that Roman calendar, March used to be the 1st month of the year. The word October comes from the…
A German woman worked all her life. She did not marry and had no child. To save a lot of money, she denied herself so many luxuries. She was very religious and hardly missed mass any Sunday. Even till the…
I once read about a story in a book (mythology), the title of which I can no longer remember. The story goes thus: A certain village was visited by a great famine that led to unimaginable hunger. One day, someone…
I am talking of the time when every child played with other children in his or her neighborhood without fear of discrimination. This was a time when there were no private schools. I am talking of a time when no…
It was believed that doing so would attract the anger of the spirits. Thus, evening meals were prepared on time before darkness fell and eaten on time too. The truth of the matter is that there were no spirits going…
1) THE AIM OF THE RESEARCH To open the eyes of our people to the fact that there are many religious merchants in town who use mischievous signs and wonders to deceive and prey on unsuspecting victims. 2) WHAT THE…
1) In 1910, in Arondizuogu, there was a visually impaired young man named Akweke. Akweke’s elder brother, who incidentally was the village head, learned about the Iyienu Hospital at Ogidi (45 miles away from Arondizuogu) that was run by the…
