Dikebuka:


That's one thing with you people. You think igbo is like another tribe....our republican nature makes us too diverse.

Adaobi is saying what applies to her own part of igboland. I am saying what applies in my own part of igboland.

Stop showing your ignorance...I explain why igbos are abit skeptical about OSU...it goes against our core believe which is Freedom...infact OSU is against our "live and let live" slogan.

Like I said again..there are areas in igboland dt dont subscribe to that OSU stuff.. Ume is against incest and other abominable crimes which goes against our core believes. Ume in Owerri can move to Mbaise and become freeborn...

candidtalk:


Lol. "I am ashamed of the backward ways of my people" would suffice instead of the silly excuses you produce above to validate what is not seen in most regions of Nigeria.

ghettowriter:



Not only in the villages. Over here in the city peoply break up engagements everyday over this same Osu cast system.

Bkayyy:
When are going to talk about the dehumanization of women in the North ( women are properties in the North)?
When are we going to talk about the forced hijab and barqa dressing on women in the North?
When are we going to talk about allowing women to inherit land and including them in communal laws in the North?
When are we going to talk about the harassment of women wearing normal clothes by hisbah in the North?
When are we going to talk about segregating women in tiny room in the mosque?
When are we going to also talk about the segregation of Hausa bakwai and Hausa Banza (which is like the osu caste)?
When are we going to talk about not allowing an hausa man to be emir in his own land in Northern Nigeria?
When are we going to talk about forcefully prosecuting a Northerner in Sharia courts?
When are we going to talk about not allowing female yoruba monarchs to marry and give birth like queen Elizabeth?
When are we going to talk about the use of bobaku by yoruba Obas?
When are we going to talk about the use of human parts as traditional items in the West?
When are we going to talk about not allowing women own ancestral lands in the West ( not acquired lands)?
When are we going to talk about denying women their right to be emirs in the North?
When are we going to talk about denying women their rights to be Ooni of Ife and Alaafin of oyo?
When are we going to talk about not allowing women to be the Oba of Bini?
This is just to list a few.
But here we are, where everybody thinks the Igbo culture should be changed to accommodate western views while theirs should not be touched.
I only support changing customs that abuse human rights. But trying to demonize a tribe based on some side of their culture which seems weird to you is what I am against.
All African and the world's customs have bad sides, we should all work to mend those sides.

sesan85:


Oga, I never even bothered to finish reading the long piffle you wrote there. I just wanted to point out to you that your fellow Igbo wrote the article hence you should leave "non-Igbo" people out of your grievances over this article, that's all

BornRicch:


You're a very foolish person, your people are agitating about equality for ohu and osu and you're spitting jargons. People like you need confirm slap.. So you want woman to be Oba of Benin?

sesan85:


"We would appreciate it if Nigerians
would focus more on their own societal ills and
leave Ndiigbo alone to sort out ours in peace."

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, your fellow Igbo, wrote this article about your barbaric, inhumane, primitive, uncivilized Osu tradition. Why are you bringing "Nigerians" into this?

Apologize:


I go comot yah teeth just now

goodnessme1:
Foolish Amotekun terrorists will come here to show their foolishness.


Boko haram people will come here to talk nonesense.


Not that they are better.

goodnessme1:
Foolish Amotekun terrorists will come here to show their foolishness.


Boko haram people will come here to talk nonesense.





Not that they are better.

Unified07:

Calm down
IGBOS ARE NOT LIKE ANY OTHER TRIBE THE OHU AND OSU IS NOT EVEN A CULTURE IT IS ROOTED IN THE NATURE OF THE IGBOS, LIKE I SAID IT IS NEVER A RACIST ACT

Osagyefo98:
If you are an OSU, you remain an OSU and generation unborn can't save you from that.

Forming an association of osus is nothing but inferiority complex.

Traditions remains tradition and can not change because few people feels that one or two things doesn't go their way.

The whole article is nothing but trash and nonsense. The wisdom of our forefathers surpasses that of all these generations.


The gods are wise and their ways unknown to men and for them to stipulate such rules, so shall it.


If you don't like Igbo tradition relocate to yorubaland and change your name to Olaotu or relocate to hausaland and change your name to Kawaii but if you insist on staying in Igboland them you must respect and abide by her traditions...


The tradition makes ndigbo special.

ghettowriter:
Stop the hate #OsuLivesMatter.


If you discriminate a person base on his/her ethnicity, race, religion, clan or family ties not in cognisant with the persons parsonality, then you are not a good person and also a part of the world's problems.

Bkayyy:

Everybody likes to quench the smoke in another person's house while their village is on fire.
It's like the new thread in Nigeria is attacking Igbo customs and traditions while a young man is about to be hanged for ordinary religion and women can't be allowed to dress the way they like in North by Hisbah all because of religion.
Whereas in South West, the supposed female yoruba monarch that to them symbolizes their equality in gender is not allowed to be with a man talkless of marrying and giving birth.
Everybody in Nigeria is now a Nelson Mandela on Igbo Culture

Bkayyy:

True talk.
Our ancestors knew the stigma associated with slavery, that is why they rather die than allow themselves to be white slaves. E.g the Igbo landing in Virginia where they all commited suicide.
An Igbo man will rather die than allow himself to be enslaved because they believe that once you are enslaved, your soul and generation become enslaved. The same spirit is what you see in IPOB members, they see Nigeria as a slave camp so they rather die than be part of it

NgwalandAbia:


I hardly reply positively to people here because of the level of their IQ, but I think you are wise and I reserve my comment.

tubolancer:
Are they not better than you spewing nonsense from your mouth. You carry Bible every Sunday, but look at what you are doing to your fellow human being, in short you are lower than a pig.

muykem:
Majority of Igbo especially those ones here in nairaland are actually OSU.

AlabiJ:
Seriously, ibo people need to stop this nonsense and archaic practise immediately. If they can be treating their own fellow ibos like this, then what hope is there for a complete non-ibo stranger in their midst?

Those ibos being discriminated against had better leave such backward society and go elsewhere, else they will hardly progress. Could this senseless discrimination be the reason why their society is still the most homogeneous and seen as the most hostile towards strangers in Southern Nigeria? One hardly hears of strangers progressing in iboland the way ibos are allowed to in other societies.

All you Ibo people still practicing this nonsense should stop it. It's not fair!!! Tufiakwa.

goodnessme1:
Foolish Amotekun terrorists will come here to show their foolishness.


Boko haram people will come here to talk nonesense.





Not that they are better.

Bkayyy:

True talk.
Our ancestors knew the stigma associated with slavery, that is why they rather die than allow themselves to be white slaves. E.g the Igbo landing in Virginia where they all commited suicide.
An Igbo man will rather die than allow himself to be enslaved because they believe that once you are enslaved, your soul and generation become enslaved. The same spirit is what you see in IPOB members, they see Nigeria as a slave camp so they rather die than be part of it

simpleseyi:


But you hate Muslims and Hausa-Fulanis