If you cannot stand tall and affirm your Igboness among fellow Igbo people, what makes you think you will suddenly discover that courage when you stand among people of other tribes?
I will say this without apologies.
Stop outsourcing your self esteem.
Whether you are from Anambra, Imo, Enugu, Abia, Ebonyi, Delta, Rivers or any other Igbo speaking community, nobody owes you the sense of worth you refuse to give yourself.
If you constantly enter conversations already convinced that somebody considers you, less Igbo, less important, or somehow inferior, eventually you will interpret every disagreement as disrespect and every difference as rejection.
That is no way to build a people.
Yes, prejudice can exist within ethnic groups. People sometimes make ignorant remarks about communities other than their own. Challenge it when it happens.
But there is a difference between confronting genuine disrespect and requiring everybody else to constantly reassure you that you matter.
You matter before anybody validates you.
Your village matters.
Your dialect matters.
Your history matters.
Your contribution to Ala Igbo matters.
And none of those things becomes more legitimate because somebody from another part of Igbo land finally gives you permission to believe it.
Every Igbo person should be raised like a king in his own house; not to look down on others, but so that he never needs to kneel before another person begging for validation.
Carry your identity with confidence.
Speak your dialect without apology.
Tell your history.
Celebrate your community.
Learn the histories of other Igbo communities too.
And when somebody attempts to diminish you, correct them without first diminishing yourself.
If nobody has ever told you this, I am telling today, right in your face that you cannot spend your life announcing that you are inferior and then become angry because somebody eventually believes you.
Unity does not require everybody to be identical. Igbo land has different dialects, histories, customs and local identities. That diversity does not have to become a competition over who is more Igbo than the other.
Nobody owes you your self esteem.
Nobody owes you pride in your ancestry.
Nobody owes you the courage to stand firmly in your identity.
Those things must first come from within.
Stand tall.
Know where you come from.
And never require another Igbo person to become smaller before you can finally feel big.
Your Igboness does not need anybody's permission.
Ka m bịakwanụ.
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