Okunano Voices (Culture Documentaries)

Knocking on wood is the most common superstition in Western culture used to reverse bad fortune or undo a "jinx." Other cultures maintain similar practices, like spitting or throwing salt, after someone has tempted fate. Tempted fate? That's exactly what His Excellency, Dr. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, the governor of Enugu state has done by endorsing an Ugwuaji Okunano man as the PDP candidate for the seat of the chairmanship of Enugu South LGA council for the very first time after several dispensations and tenors. I happened to be one of the very few persons who was not comfortable with the governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi 's administration. I would not hide the fact that I criticized most of his decisions and policies with regards to my convinction and had refused vehemently to sing his praises like many of my kinsmen and friends. But this singular act has successfully endeared the governor to my heart. It proofs simply that he's a man of character. One that's not easily ...

These are some of the perceived fetish practices of our fore- bearers which is almost gone extinct in Okunano land. Some of us here may have experienced something of it, Seen something of this practice with our fathers, elders and people without fully grasping the significance of such annual and regular sacrifices to carven images and molded clayey moulds and sculptures. Or some awkward looking hole in the ground that is usually decorated with chicken 🐔 blood and  feathers🪶.... We saw it all, and even partook in the act of sacrifice howbeit, knowingly or ignorantly. *What is the significance of such an annual sacrificial practices now gone extinct?*

Ujarhí!, ujarhí! Obú ekpe! Obú ekpe! What is ekpe? 

        What is Shinéwà? 

Minstrelsy is found globally. And minstrels have appeared   in   societies   as  singers,musicians, or reciters of poems, with the characteristic of itinerancy for performances.  Normally,they compel awe and respect in such performances. In former times, the skills of the minstrels were seen as spiritual.  The minstrels themselves were considered sacred. And they were invited by kings and “loaded with honours and awards”  Okunano Voices is searching for the top Minstrels in Okunano Osagwede.  Kindly name any of them  that you know of whom are still living....

Of a truth, Aruga Nwudewo-Nvene lake , is located at Obunægu Onu-nyo, while the source is located in Amechi-Uwani Okunano. It has some mystical connotations. It is believed that, either by archeological proof or by native divinational sources, that the underground waterway leads from Ishi-Aruga down to Obunægu Onu-nyo. In the olden days, if rainfall failed to take place when it was expected to drop, the Elders in Amechi- uwani would boil hot water @ 💯° centigrade in a large mud-pot, they would pour it down @ Ishi-Aruga, calling on the rain-god to release water from above. This exercise would be accompanied with the beating of Abia-ekpe drums and display of *Okaragbadiegwu* [i.e Okekpe masquerade]. After the exercise, no Jupiter again could hold the dropping of rainfall. Sometimes, the rainfall would scare the elders as they happily jugged home, because the rainfall used to fall instantly. The huge oil-silk tree (ukwu akpu) that has long existed there @ Ishi-Aru...

Okuk' mar' ewa, bia yuo shi n' mgboguji, is a proverbial statement by #Okunano #people. In other words, in the literal meaning, one who wakes up early in the morning to seek for his daily bread, is expected to come back to his house early before dawn.  But when the opposite is the case, the proverbial statement will now apply, "Okuk' mar' ewa, bia shuo shi n' mgboguji"      In the other hand, such proverb could be likened to an insatiable human person.  For instance, one who attends to a function earlier than others, but becomes the last to quit the arena.      To break the scheme of work to the understanding of a learner/pupil, we take them one by one thus:- a) Okuk' mar'ewa means = A fowl that wakes up earlier than others. (b)Bia yuo shi n' mgboguji, means = that because of the fowl's late arrival back home, the dung it is supposed to deficate inside it's roost, it now deposits it on the entrance pavement, because of it's late...