Okunano Voices (Culture Documentaries)

Ofor or Owho in Okunano Osagwede dialect is an allegorical personification of the moral force in Okunano and all over igboland. And like the latin “Iustitia”   or the female blindfolded symbol of justice, her attributes is the oshishi-owho stick. In the whole of igboland, Owho is the sacred symbol of truth, royal authority, justice, law and administrative power. It primarily bestows upon the holder/bearer (person or persons in possession) the right to offer sacrifice - rituals, prayer, oath taking, pronouncing of judgement, deliberating policy/policies within the family, clan or community and also for invoking blessings or curses. Sometimes and at some other quarters in Igboland, the Owho may be made from bronze, brass or stick and symbolizes a family or clan or community's authority and can only be handled by those who are authorized or entitled to touch or wield it. It is revered by the family or clan and treated as heirlooms - passing from generation to gener...

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 ...

OKUNANO VOICES EDUCATION FUND (in Prospect) I want to specially invite you to join us on this journey. Fifty years from now posterity would judge us all as great visionaries; we would have come a long way. Even though some of us may be no more but we would have successfully planted great deeds and values in the hearts of many and also in the sands of time. Today would become the past when tomorrow comes and we would have moved Okunano Osagwede from balkanized communities to a unified clan with clarity of purpose and a common vision. Let’s come to terms with the present predicament and challenges of Okunano clan. We must accept that there is a lot of work to be done and that our successive generation will be facing a greater task if we do nothing today. We have no unified front or platform to press home our challenges or channel our efforts as it were today hence this clarion call. Many of our sons and daughters are unable to go to school, several of them are currently goi...

The proposed OKUNANO VOICES EDUCATION FUND aims to provide quality education to the under-privileged and deserving. We will be committed to bridge the gap between excellent education and the barriers in acquiring it. With the firm belief that enlightening minds can eliminate social evils, we will work towards imparting appropriate learning facilities to the Clan populace who do not have access to quality education. The Vision will be: "To make a sincere attempt to bring about a significant change in Okunano by offering good quality education." Mission: Our Mission will be to sow the seeds for Okunano's qualification. Aiming to eradicate illiteracy with a mass of donors ,volunteers & mentors. It will be a mutual commitment which will benefit us all. We are currently working to attract prospective trustees and facilitate incorporation. Kindly join us on the Okunano Voices WhatsApp group using the link below: https://chat.whatsapp.com/2lB3AOKZ9ap3PBVpQArmuI

Our forbearers used the open air and bush attack system of defecation. Hence it was normal to see adults and children defecating publicly in those days.  We witnessed or better still experienced the art of 'éyi-shi' na ókpé-édé or okpéshi while growing up. Some of us got up to mischief at times defecating or shitting at the wrong places. ,Nowadays urbanization has enveloped us, crowding our homelands with tenants and strangers. The government presence is been installed all round our communities.  Do we continue to creatively decorate our homelands with shit on the pretext that shit forms the best manure for our farms products?  You may want to agree with me that we have not progressed very much in comparison to our forbearers here. In the 21st century our people can still be seen openly defecating at close range. No toilets? There's been arguments for and against the subject offline but we think it is rather important here that you folks partake in the discussions. What i...