HOW DISDAIN FOR OMENANA KILLED GIANT IGBO BUSINESSES

BY
 REMY ILONA

Igbo parents went through the Igbo apprenticeship school (igba odibo) & built the giant business concerns we met & that have mostly gone into history. The founders wanted their children to succeed them. To train them they didn't send them to the schools they themselves went-they didn't invite them to work in the family businesses during their vacations, but sent them to the best business schools in the world. Expectedly perhaps they looked down on the ladders they used to climb up, likely because the method was traditional. You know that many of us look down on things Igbo, i.e, Igbotic things. You cannot despise Omenana and understand igba odibo. After handover as people must grow old and die, the inevitable happened: the businesses collapsed as soon as the sons took over. They didn't pass through any of the steps their forebears did.

Igbo businesspeople the best business schools for your children are the ones you yourselves attended. The flashy ones with great looking brochures can be supplements, but let them start from your stores.

The chronicles of the founders of those behemoths can be found in songs by Oliver D' Coque, and Osita Osadebe.

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