Emeka Esogbue

 My Issele-Uku Travels and the Kingdom’s Ine Celebration: The Experience  By Emeka Esogbue On that night, I rejoined Issele-Uku, we gathered around the Obi with the display of prowess in ‘ita inu’, ‘tales by the moon’ and the night seemed morning yet with Issele-Uku becoming antediluvian with resultant beauty; returning to the period before the foreign imperial incursion when the King of Issele-Uku was especially amused. Everyone that had to tell the tale, heralded his story with the usual ‘Enye mu unu nju’ as is the general practice of the Enuani people. In the middle of the ‘Ita inu', when a few unexpected distractions inhibited our hilarity, the Obi, possessing god-like quality, displayed superiority to mundane and humdrum matters with his constant call for the restoration of order from the distractors that instantaneously and ultimately submitted to him. The ‘Ita Inu’ was all about the adventures of ‘mbekwu’, the tortoise, a reminder of ‘mbekwu oka na inu,’ another saying ...

  Nwada Anioma: Our Pageant Will Resuscitate the Role of Umuada in Anioma   -        HOM International CEO, Patrick Okolie   In 2011, he came up with the Nwada Anioma Cultural Beauty Pageant inside the prestigious Orchid Hotels, Asaba, Delta State which Ogwashi-Uku-born Miss Chidinma Obiechie won. The event shook the Anioma cultural space with several wonders and it was one of the biggest and richest in the history of the people. The event featured the people of the nine Local Government Areas that make up the Anioma Nation in Delta State including Igbanke in Edo State that also featured in the event. A decade after,  he is set to hold another edition of the contest in a grandest style. In this interview, Patrick Okolie, the CEO of HOM International speaks to EMEKA ESOGBUE (PEN MASTER) on the success of the beauty pageant and expectations of the upcoming edition. Excerpts:     Pen Master: (Laughing aloud) Mr. Patric...