My last exchange with you on this forum was about the origin of Eze in Igbo land. I asserted that it evolved from the Warrant Officer created by Lord Lugard since the Igbo had no governing institution when the colonialists arrived. The saying then was Igbo Enwe Eze (Igbos have no King). In fact, the red cap is not a crown and a King must have a crown. The transformation of Warrant Chiefs to Eze, incurred the protest of the igbo with the terminology, EZEBUILO which translates to A-King-Is-An- Enemy. You offered a different meaning to the word Ezebuilo which was quiet different from the meaning offerred to the word by Chinua Achebe on page 16 of his book, Home And Exile. You were angry because I decided to accept Achebe's meaning of the word Ezebuilo than your own fanciful and mud-polishing meaning of Ezebuilo.
On reading yours below, I am reminded of an Igbo psychiatrist, Dr. Thomas Osuji, who sometimes ago published a paper on the social and mental traits of the Igbo. He wrote, "The Igbo is boastful; he is full of braggadocio. He fancies himself superior to other persons. Worse, he wants you, the person he imagines that he is superior to, to accept his deluded self-assessment. If you humour him and go along with him and treat him as if he is superior person, he feels fine and gets along with you. If you call his bluff and tell him that he is a naked emperor pretending to be robed in diadem, he feels angry at you. For the Igbo to get along with you, you must collude with him and tell him what he wants to hear, that he is the King of the hill." All Igbos are probably not like you but you fit in exactly into Dr. Osuji's diagnosis of the social and mental traits of an Igbo.
S. Kadiri
Skickat: den 25 september 2017 17:01
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I couldn't have expressed this better. Thank you very much Obi.
Let me however, confess that I find the fellow in question entertaining sometimes.
CAO.
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