In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, one of the literature books the school authority had prescribed for us to buy and read in our Class Two days at Methodist College, Uzuakoli in 1976, the author had written that ‘All animals are equal but some are more equal ….’ The satirical work of George Orwell, as he […]
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In the area of tradition and custom, the ancient town of Arochukwu has some well-developed, well-established, overly-strong institutions and practices that have been passed from generation to generation. Think of the Ekpe Society, Ibu Mmayi Nwanyi, Itu Aju Mmayi, the age-grade system, Iga Mmiri Chukwu, Iru Mgbede, the ‘uzi’ institutional practice, and Egwu Onwa celebrations,
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It is no longer news that Dr Alex Otti had swept the gubernatorial polls of the 18 March, 2023 to defeat all other contestants in the election held in Abia state that day. It is also no longer news that more than eighty percent of Abians across the seventeen local government areas of the state
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In the first part of this article published last September in this paper, I had indicated I was going to point out some areas of trado-cultural aberrations that take place in Arochukwu today with regard to the traditional rulership of the town that weren’t happening in those good days of quintessential trado-cultural exactitude and valued
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In other articles that will follow this, I shall draw attention to some of the abnormal things that happen in Arochukwu today that many consider should not happen at all with regard to the traditional practice in our town with regard to our cultural heritage, the customary and cultural norms of the people of Arochukwu
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It is a known fact that between August and October every year, many communities in the South-East and South-South geo-political zones of Nigeria carry out the celebration of the harvesting of the new yams they had planted at the beginning of the planting season in festival. In carrying out the celebration of their new yams,
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It may not be out of place here to indicate that the traditional rulers in Igbo land deserve respect from the people, as what obtains in the Western and Northern parts of Nigeria, more than what the situation is today. In the time past, the traditional stools in Igbo land and the rulers who occupied
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During each year’s dry season, some people usually set fire on some nearby bushes in many parts of the country, including Abia state. This they do for some reasons. While some set the fires for gaming and hunting purposes as some animals are trapped, burnt, killed or displaced by the ravaging fires, others do so
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On Tuesday, 25 August, 2020, the World Health Organisation finally certified Nigeria free from the wild polio virus that had caused infantile paralysis among the children in the country. Before the certification, Nigeria had been the only country on the continent of Africa that had the wild polio virus out of the fifty-four countries the
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That was what one girl told another girl on one occasion. As we were on a bus travelling to Arochukwu from Aba on Monday, 31 August, 2020, an Ihechiowa lass had requested the next person sitting close to her, another lass from Arochukwu, to shift the bag the latter had placed nearest to her ‘so
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