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Pastor apologises over harsh, unkind comment on Obi Cubana
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Nigeria, the Igbo and collective guilt, By Cheta Nwanze
We are all guilty of assigning the madness of an individual to either his ethnic group or his creed.
This collective guilt that we partake in is what leads to such outcomes. But I have a final word: The world is becoming a more hostile place for all of us. We are seen as poor leeches who contribute nothing to the world but noise. The behaviours that you accuse ndi Igbo of, which some of us are guilty of, I’ll admit, is the same way the world sees you, and worse. What you do to us, the world will do to you.
By REUBEN ABATI
The sociology of death and funerals is an important aspect of the African cosmogony. Parents pray that their children should outlive them in order to give them a befitting burial. They liken this to the same manner when fire dies out in the hearth, it is replaced by ashes, and when a banana tree withers, a sapling sprouts in its place. When Africans die, it is believed that they have merely travelled to another realm, and become ancestors, and hence, a funeral ceremony is a send-forth event. The death of a young person however, is considered a tragedy. This is why such obituaries are prefaced with the solemn declaration that “The wicked have done their worst”, “We love you but the Lord loves you more” or “A Painful Exit.” The tone of the elegy at a funeral is thus a function of the circumstances of the death, or the religious inclination of the family as in “With Total Submission to the Will of God…”, “Inna Lillahi wa inna Ilayhi Raji’un”. Age