How Omenana will restore the Igbo engine of growth and development

By
 Remy Ilona
The engine of a nation, its heart is its religion. Igbo nation stopped working when foreign 💕 began to replace its own heart. 

The European and Arab religions are foreign. So are the traditions and ideas of Ijaw, Igala, Benin, Yoruba, Idoma, etc that most Igbos think today are Omenana.

When they think of Omenana they think of eze nwanyi, think of masquerades, but never think that ugo belu egbe belu (justice), iso nso (avoidance of sin) ikpu aru (purification), inabata nwa ogbenye etc, are actually quite central in Omenana, unlike eze nwanyi. When I tell people they don't know anything about Omenana I also tell them they don't even know what religion and culture mean. And what makes you think you know what Omenana is if the only thing you can identify with Omenana is Amadioha or Ogwugwu. If I had not begun to investigate I would also have thought that Akpu Ozubulu whom we all know was one of our ancestors was a god, whom because he had a shrine the missionaries that were illiterate in religion branded a god- but Joseph, Mary have shrines in the Catholic Church. Are they Catholic gods? 

When you talk about Omenana you don't even remember CHI UKWU and nna nna gi, yet you beat your chest and proclaim you know Omenana. You probably think that every religion honors ancestors. Of course like the missionaries you are illiterate on religion and culture. The Yoruba religion and Christianity are silent on ancestors.

 You don't know that traditionally to change land boundaries, to spill blood in any form, to violate the day of rest, eke ukwu in Eziora Ozubulu, and nkwo oru in my Egbema Ozubulu, etc, are against Omenana, yet because you heard about Amadioha which you don't even know its origins you think you have nothing to learn about Omenana. Eventually Omenana will be taught in universities, high schools, etc. We've struck the first blow by establishing the Olaudah Equiano Research Institute which I donated over 3000 choice books to.

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