How Igbo children born outside Igbo land can be Igbo

By
Remy Ilona
I know we have not thought about what becomes of Igbo children who were born by Igbo parents in Senegal, Mauretania, Gambia, Zambia, Cape Verde, Seychelles, Vietnam, Cambodia, Bhutan, etc. 

Igbos who went to these places like those who came to America, Canada, UK, etc, thought they would return home after 5 years and start a business. Because they thought this way no kind of cultural institutions were built-no museums, libraries, etc-even more crucially the expatriated Igbos identified more as Christian than as Igbo, so they threw billions of $ into building of Christian rather than Igbo institutions.

Many years after many of the expatriated are realizing that they and their foreign born children may not return home. Many of the children are Igbos only by blood. They know nothing about home. No Igbo institutions where the children would learn about Igbo history and culture. Don't know a word of Igbo, & to complicate matters the country Igboland was forcefully annexed to is collapsing so the option of returning home is receding.

I got a call from Ecuador, from an Igbo worried that his children would not be Igbos & that if he dies in Ecuador he'd likely be buried there. He cried out to me for solutions. I was glad that Nz'rabbi Kevin Olaudah Jones thought about our youtube channel because this dude wanted instant relief https://youtu.be/KPpL9R9B7UI and referring him to Amazon for books will not soothe him. He received the links with happiness and said that at least he's connected to something Igbo.

Omenana Defenders will continue to think about how to solve these problems.

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