Cel 510 kid ados forever
Veteran
12 comments long is this a book?
The New Yorker: The Descendants of Slaves in Nigeria Fight for Equality
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Maduagwu thought that it made sense to use the same principle of exchange that led to the ohu’s enslavement to “rewind the process.” “Money changed hands when the slaves were bought,” she said. “Money also needs to change hands for abolition to take place.” This kind of transaction is important in local custom. She likened it to the fact that, when an Igbo couple gets married, the bride’s family receives a “bride price” from the groom’s family—in money or gifts—and, if the marriage ends, they must refund it before she can remarry. (Until then, any children resulting from a new union are considered to belong to the previous husband.) After the slave payment changes hands, the dialafamilies would publicly apologize on behalf of their ancestors, and the ohu would accept the apology. Then the head of each slave-owning family would strike his ofo—a staff that represents authority—and declare the ohufree. The Igwes would write a joint declaration abolishing the caste system in their town, and, Maduagwu suggested, announce “a curse on anyone who will afterwards practice it at any level.” This would be followed by a celebratory feast. The Igwes hoped to accomplish all of this within a year
There were still hundreds of towns across southeastern Nigeria to visit, but Maduagwu was excited about the Igwes’ decision. “No traditional ruler has the power to impose on another,” she said. “It has to be done community by community.” She had begun to imagine a future in which the result in Ogbaru was replicated across the region. “It’s going to be a homecoming and historic event, whereby the chairmen of the traditional rulers’ council of the five southeastern states, with the approval of all other traditional rulers of the five southeastern states, will come together and abolish osu, ohu, ume, and diala,” she said. “All the other traditional rulers will simultaneously abolish it in their communities, and there will be merriment and celebration all over Igboland. How glorious that will be!”
The Descendants of Slaves in Nigeria Fight for Equality
The Descendants of Slaves in Nigeria Fight for Equality
I'm nigerian as well but 2 pages for the op...
get these nets
Veteran
Giving us the link to read the article would have better playa ..
get these nets
Veteran
saturn7
Politics is an EXCHANGE!!!
"but but but they are being divisive"
The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
Pretty sure the Obi of Onitsha and other high kings abolished this practice last year - along with the blessing of Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo
get these nets
Veteran
How is that applicable to this topic?
Wouldn't this story be comparable to descendants of enslaved people addressing issues directly to the descendants of those who enslaved them?
People addressing the U.S. govt and American institutions about reparations directly for the enslavement of Africans in America is not what (sensible) people have labeled as being divisive.
Throwing other Black people under the bus under the false belief that "they all look down on us anyway", is what people have labeled as divisive.
T'krm
Superstar
'Descendants of slaves'?
Can we have nothing to ourselves?!?!
But wasn't you giving Ados shyt for fighting for reparations against cacs in the other thread tho?!?all because your not entitled to it????
The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
The situation between Igbos ‘osu’ and African-Americans is very different, but I shall see enjoy the nonsense that will be spewed from the nyash of foreigners
The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
