Your Igbo Roots

Know your people so they may know you. The Umunna are your kinsmen who live among you. Are you a part of your communities groups? Do you actively participate in?

Gini Wu okwa?

Taking children as domestic help should attract severe punishment and the earlier we push for this law to be implemented the better for us.

Anyone caught with minor helps should serve at least 6 years in jail, no exceptions. Whether you are good to your minor helps or not is irrelevant, children cannot consent to a labour contract, children are not mentally developed enough to protect themselves and their rights, so they should not be your helps.

If you cannot afford to employ and pay an adult then handle the affairs of your home by yourself. Enough!

Getting older comes with maturity and the reality that our parents were mostly wise. My self actualization needs have evolved with age, and I’m at that point where I want to be close to home, participate in my community and just live my life working hard on my plantation.

Hopefully he is curious enough to learn Igbo after this.

The birds waking everyone up way too early. The moon looking bigger there than anywhere else I've been. Running to the stream with my cousins for no reason at all. Sitting in the fields for hours watching a ball game like it mattered more than anything. Walking down the road and every single person knowing who you are. I didn't realize how much I'd miss all of it until I left.

Something I was thinking about today.

The pride I carry when I learn what our Igbo women ancestors accomplished traders, warriors, leaders, way ahead of their time. What’s a story about your ancestors that makes you sit up straighter? Drop it below. 👇🏾