OLYMPIC MEDALS? Nonsense!!!!!
Stopping shrugging over our poor Olympic medal profile. We are not Americans neither are we Europeans. We are Africans.
Only American or European originated games are played in Olympics. We have our own games and its rules.
1. We play canter; eleven bottle covers tactically arranged in a
footballing style Kicking the improvised ball in a goal post constructed
using a sugar carton.
2. Even gymnastics like 'APAMA'. Then the backflippings on a rock solid ground.
3. Our local games like 'NCHO'.
4. Tree climbing and catapult shooting too.
5. What about playing cashew nuts?
6. Jumping steps.
2. Even gymnastics like 'APAMA'. Then the backflippings on a rock solid ground.
3. Our local games like 'NCHO'.
4. Tree climbing and catapult shooting too.
5. What about playing cashew nuts?
6. Jumping steps.
Civilization is really good but what is bad about it, is imposition.
We have 4 market days (Eke, Orie, Afor and Nkwo) yet we all now live in the white man's seven days.
Our names used to have meanings, now we just have 'good' sounding names with meanings alien to us.
Imagine my confusion when she told me that her name was Sophia Williams. I proceeded to ask for her state of Origin hoping to hear something like Ohio or Philadelphia. She replied: "Anambra state". Jeezzz!!! An Igbo girl with basically no identity. Sophia means???? likewise Williams.
But we bear names and surnames with meanings and easy identification
Okafor implies that the bearer is a man born on Afor market day
Mgbafor is the feminine form of Okafor
Okorie implies that the bearer is a man and was born on Orie market day
Mgborie is its feminine form.
Likewise Okonkwo, Nweke and Mgbeke.
Our names give us identity and recognition. But now, we try to drop our surnames and replace them with 'meaningless'names of white origin.
Please this trend of changing our surnames from Okonkwo to Franklin is the height of self humiliation. There is nothing fetish in our surnames. We are all sons of the living God.
Changing your surname from Nwosu to Mark doesn't make you more a Christian, than Nwafor who still worships the gods of his ancestors in faithfulness and truth. And who is loving, kind and does not bear false witness.
#enoughofthisselfhumiliation#
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We have 4 market days (Eke, Orie, Afor and Nkwo) yet we all now live in the white man's seven days.
Our names used to have meanings, now we just have 'good' sounding names with meanings alien to us.
Imagine my confusion when she told me that her name was Sophia Williams. I proceeded to ask for her state of Origin hoping to hear something like Ohio or Philadelphia. She replied: "Anambra state". Jeezzz!!! An Igbo girl with basically no identity. Sophia means???? likewise Williams.
But we bear names and surnames with meanings and easy identification
Okafor implies that the bearer is a man born on Afor market day
Mgbafor is the feminine form of Okafor
Okorie implies that the bearer is a man and was born on Orie market day
Mgborie is its feminine form.
Likewise Okonkwo, Nweke and Mgbeke.
Our names give us identity and recognition. But now, we try to drop our surnames and replace them with 'meaningless'names of white origin.
Please this trend of changing our surnames from Okonkwo to Franklin is the height of self humiliation. There is nothing fetish in our surnames. We are all sons of the living God.
Changing your surname from Nwosu to Mark doesn't make you more a Christian, than Nwafor who still worships the gods of his ancestors in faithfulness and truth. And who is loving, kind and does not bear false witness.
#enoughofthisselfhumiliation#
photo credit: www.pininterest.com
Deeply heroic but true indeed. Sound the bell louder than it should really ring!
ReplyDeletewe need to accept our identity. embrace it and cherish it
DeleteGreat piece
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