Joe-Boy's Ughu

The Ughu season came again and this time I had the opportunity to be a host, when my son Joe-boy (Joseph) Nnabueze took the ughu title - the ughu title is one of the early steps leading to the presitigious Ozor title in Ukehe. After so many ceremonies, the initiate becomes an Achojede op' (which means - one in search of the elephant tusk). The elephant tusk is a symbol for the Ozor intitates.  The processes has undergone several reformations and christianisation from what it was in the days gone by. It was very interesting and soon we will have him do the proper Ozor title taking, its exciting because as young as he is, he is in tune with what is happening and asks questions. During the Ozor title taking ceremony (igbu-ichi) he'll take eight new names and he is amazingly contributing to the name search which is part of what is going on now amidst the payments that is almost like trading at a stock exchange hall. The Ozor title taking is slated for sometime in September.

Joe Boy as a full fledged Ozor man (titled man) with Sister Christable and Uncle Ozor Aaron Nwoba during the Convocation ceremony at UNN

Prize for Hard work: Chika Unigwe receives the prestigious NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature

Nsukka is busy today from my Bishop Shanahan home quite close to the gate I noticed that there was a difference, it is Tuesday, 29th January and Chika Unigwe a Lioness (a UNN Alumna) was coming home to UNN all the way from Turnout, Belgium to be publicly presented with the award for best fiction in Nigeria for her book On Black Sister's Street, by the Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas company.

It is billed for 9:00am and no African time, it did start at 9 because the presentation is live on NTA. It turned out a day many of us will look forward to being our day but without hard work it cannot happen and truly how many of us are working hard at what we are doing where there are so many shortcuts (or so it seems) to success. It was a day of reunion for many of us who knew Chika during her undergraduate days, her lecturers from the English Department  and even her English teacher from Bwari (FGGC) came and showered praises on her. Her family was led by her father and her Belgian Hubby Jan was there too.

for more stories on her award Google: CHIKA UNIGWE ...

Chika (middle) with her award and the Governor of Anambra State G. Peter Obi immediate on her  right, the rest are the NLNG crew .

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Chika with University of Nigeria Secondary School, they were pampered and I guess inspired

Acress Joke Silva and fans