You accept Middle Eastern oral tradition without hesitation. But your own ancestral stories must be foolishness. Meanwhile, both superstitions can be as ridiculous as they can be.
A virgin birth is Sacred Mystery but Oranmiyan descending from heaven by chain is a Myth.
Adam being formed from clay is Divine creation but Obatala shaping humans from clay is juju.
Pilgrims circling the Kaaba and reverencing a Stone is Holy, meanwhile Africans honoring a consecrated stone or shrine is Idolatry.
Angels appearing to prophets is Revelation but
Ancestors speaking through divination must be Superstition.
A burning bush that speaks in the Middle East is a Holy encounter but a sacred tree believed to carry spiritual presence in Africa is Fetish.
Same themes. Different geography. Different verdicts.
This is exactly what conquest does. It defeats you in every sphere of life.
Today in History: The Aburi Accord took place.
On January 4–5, 1967, the Aburi Accord was reached in Aburi by Federal Government delegates and Eastern Region delegates led by Lt. Col. Emeka Ojukwu. Its purpose was to resolve Nigeria’s
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This is war. The common misconception is that the whole country has to be suffering for it to be war. But during the civil war it was only the east and south that was on fire.
The west, the middle belt and the north all went about their daily lives. That is us right now.
Today 30th May is #BiafraHeroesDay
Today we remember our people who gave their lives so that we can live.
Theirs is a sacrifice we can never ever forget.
May they rest eternally in the bosom of Chukwu Okike.
Iseee! 🕯️🕊️
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"We all need to go our separate ways, this union isn’t working. It was a failure from the beginning"
"Ozoemena. Ozo ga eme with the way things are going. But this time ga adi iche"
Echi ndị 15 minutes brain a naghachi kwa back to ịbụ abụ "A New Nigeria is POsibble".
#JAMB
My ancestors did not believe that any other human being was "superior" to them. Their World view is, "onye kwe, chi ya ekwe".
It was only when oyibo came with slavery and colonialism, that we began to hear, "bekee wu agbara".
It is all conditioning.