Okunano Voices (Culture Documentaries)

To conclude the subject of the post: “Aekwu so’ ibeya agba mmanu” it is imperative to relate this to other similar axioms like “odu ko odu kpowa, odu ko odu aekwe ya onu”. In this context it completely captures the illustration of the law of attraction of Homogeneous types which brings us closer to the focus of this note. Type attracts type; you attract your own kind. “Aekwu na Aekwu yi” and “nri na ofhwe yi” irrespective of the variant species of “Aekwu” and the obvious differentiation in the onomatopoeia of the later, there is a unique uniformity that is consistent with the types. The types no matter how infertile, barren or idle can be designed to complement the other. That is why the saying “odu ko’ odu kpowa, odu ko odu aekwe ya onu” is the illustration of the law of attraction of homogeneous kind. 👉If you are surrounded by drunkards then you are one and the same with them. 👉I...

The birds of the same feathers they say flock together, like begets like and opposites they also say attracts one another. There is a natural law in creation that homogeneous types must attract each other while heterogeneous types will always repel themselves. The saying: “show me your friends and I would tell you who are” is a sharp characterization of this law. People of like nature will always convene together. “Aekwu so’ ibeya agba mmanu” in Okunano dialect also conveys the understanding of the happenings around us even as we read this post. Gossipers will always find fellow gossipers; drunkards will find and flock around fellow drunkards, trouble-makers will find that they are surrounded by troubles and trouble-makers, Murderers will also in accordance with this law be born amongst people who share the same proclivity. Take a good look around you or take stock of yourself, study yourself. Which group do you belong to? This law sharply separates ...

Emete edo wàé : Some of us, father’s today may pass on only to return to experience the plight that we have subjected our current generation to suffer. The saying in English that “the boy is the father of the man” is no idle is not just for fun. It strongly confirms the validity of reincarnation, the age-long belief of “inota-uwa” or of an individual experiencing more than one earth-life. It is also reverberated in the popular Oknunano reference to ‘akpa uwa ghu esaa’ meaning that an individual may be permitted to reincarnate up to seven times. We are also very familiar with the custom of our people to seek out ‘onye nnoru ya uwa’ from the different available mediums in those days, from where also most us may have drawn our native names because you are expected to bear the same names with your ‘ogbo’ or ‘onye uwa ghu’. Our forbearers were spiritually conscious of nature and the activities of the elemental beings around them hence they were able to depict the natural law of sowing ...