Tag: Igbo Culture

Oh look, that girl loves money. She has to be an Igbo girl. They all love money. If you don’t geddi! Nwannem don’t make me use swear words on my blog. Oh look that guy loves going into any investment he sees. Must be an Igbo boy. As much as this is said to sound like a compliment, it’s not.

Here’s what I think. You want to call someone a hard worker? Or a hustler? Call them just that. No indirect talk or beating about the bush. Just give the compliment and go. Because when you say it any other way, you leave people to interpret your words how they deem fit. You make their minds wander around the meaning of your words.

So be direct. I’m going to say this again, Money is not an Identity. It’s not the representation of a particular ethnic group. Saying it is, is a slap on our faces. It’s like saying illiteracy delineates the individuality of the Hausas. Or that dirtiness portrays what the Yorubas stand for.

Money on the Tribal chart, will forever be a priority on their scale of preference. It’s a need, not a want that can be forgotten. Everyone needs it. Doesn’t matter if you’re efik, isoko,idoma or British. It’s a commodity we can’t afford to forgo.

The Igbos are far more than a monetary representation. This misrepresentation is insulting to our struggles, to our literacy and to who we are as a people. The average Igbo man is an economist, and no. He doesn’t need a degree to be addressed as such.

He knows the value of the notes he carries. He knows about investment, generating wealth. He sees beyond the goal of getting rich. Because he knows that to survive, he will have to create an opportunity for himself to maintain all that he has achieved, and even more.

So you see him, chasing after this business and that business. Searching for a balance. He has a target in mind, one he must relentlessly work towards. So you see this young man/woman. And the first thing that comes to mind is “this Igbo people sef and money”

You should wipe your mouths, and hide your faces in shame. In the next 15/20 years, that “Igbo boy/man” will be resting, because he has been able to create generational wealth. The question is, where would you be? If anything, learn from the Igbo Man. Observe the way he does business, the way he hustles. You’ll learn a thing or two.

Ahhh!! That Igbo boy is a scammer! Yes there are Igbo boys and girls who are scammers, but so is Abdul, Yemi, Itohan, Uduak, Agaba and co. You don’t see us labelling them as Scammers or international thieves. But do we have high class robbers, from these places? Well, I’ll leave your conscience to answer this question.

Hmmmm this girl sef, she loves money too much. All these Igbo girls and Money are like 5 and 6 Tufia! It’s that Tufia that will…. I refuse to use swear words. Sorry, please what exactly is your plan? Is she supposed to hate money. Maybe she should cast and bind it away from her life.

Wait, I still don’t understand. Which girl doesn’t want to be spoiled? Hope you know there’s a difference between she loves money and she’s materialistic. Okay, you don’t. How can you not love the one thing you need to pull through? the only difference here is, it’s the female gender at play. So automatically, she’s a gold digger.

Money is not an Identity. There are more lovers of currency from other tribes and cultures. People with a dangerous obsession for it. People willing to kill for it. They’re everywhere. The Igbos just make up a small percentage of that fraction.

We all need money, more than we want it. All of us. Igbo, hausa, Yoruba, ibibio,ogoni’s, etc.

Being Igbo is beautiful. It’s something that ought to give you raised shoulders. Don’t let society’s misrepresentation of who you are, make you cower away.

Have a lovely day!

Again, this is one of my very few pictorial articles. I honestly would have loved to exercise my fingers, by typing. But I would save that strength for my next article. The pictorial representation is easier to read, and ofcourse it’s prettier, so you’ll love it more than the usual typing.

I hate that some people can’t filter their words, they just open their mouth Waaaaaa, and show the world just how desperately they lack coordination and intelligence.

I’m guessing you do this too. It’s like when you’re asked where you’re from and you say Ikwerre instead of Rivers state. If your guilty just say a little yes as you read this.

You can Imagine this boy! If I didn’t like the dress I came to purchase ehhhh. Let me not even ginger too much. Because I was calm that period. But if anyone tells me that again as a joke, they’re definitely cancelled. If you want to be a clown, by all means go join a circus. Just keep your stereotypical jokes to you, yourself, and you.

You know, I just think it’s funny that people’s curiosity only comes to play when it comes to frivolities. I wonder how many have asked themselves why such a thing is being said. How many have done their research, so they know to watch their mouths, and compose themselves better.

What exactly was his plan eh?

So you can see how the person at fault here, the one who made the wrong moves in the first place ended up creating such a negative stereotype about a cultural community.

This phrase has done harm, so much. It has created this negative image of the mbaise man in the minds of people. And that’s why, we must do something about it as the younger generation.

As much as I would love to write this all over again for you, I have an even better Idea. Pictorial representation of the blog topic.

I find it very disturbing, that even amongst a group of people who call themselves brothers, one family. The hierarchy is this unfair,and still practiced casually like it doesn’t matter at all.

True, you cannot control what society dishes out. But you can control what you take in. Some of us don’t filter chaff at all. We just drain it all into our sytem. At the end of the day we end up being misinformed, judgemental lots with no mind or curiosity of their own.

The History of the Osu caste sytem, is one that’s been interpreted in different ways. Some interpret it to suit their beliefs and fuel their privileges, others just write whatever they like.

Imagine subjecting innocent generations to a life of cultural stigma. Punishing them for crimes they know nothing about. It doesn’t make any sense. And its painful that of all the cultures people want to preserve. The Osu caste sytem sits at the top of that list.

How can you claim to believe in a God and not know him? What I won’t understand is how they knew nothing about the supreme God they believed in. Perhaps when the white man introduced God as the one true and powerful being, they gave him a name for formality sake. And kept on worshiping their other gods instead of him.

Sigh…

People have been robbed of their happiness because of this system. Many have been put into depression, questioned their self esteem,etc. So why can’t we come together as a United front, and put an end to this? What exactly do we stand to gain?

Have a lovely day!