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 ...

 HISTORY: A COLONIAL PICTURE OF CHURCH MISSION SHOWS "IGBUZO" AS FIRST RECORDED TRADITIONAL NAME OF THE COMMUNITY "WE ADOPTED "IGBUZO" IN 1963" - PROF UWANDULU By Emeka Esogbue  (Pen Master) This particular picture may mean nothing to you but it means all to Anioma historians with interest in the finding of actual native name of today's Ibusa, an Igbo-speaking community lying in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State.  First, it conveys the true and original image of the first Catholic Mission established in the community in 1898 by Rev Fr. Carlos Zappa and shows it in its original state unlike what is known of it it today, succeeding the renovations that it had to go through in its history of existence. Second, it ends all doubts about the original native name of the community before its Anglicization by the British to "Ibusa" which happened precisely in 1900. From 1914, "Ibusa" was documented for the people, making it...

  The Ibusa Quarters and the Community’s Organized Military Strategy       By Emeka Esogbue Modern Ibusa, a community in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State has grown from the union of Ogboli and Igbuzo settlements to a community of ten quarters natively referred to as “Igbuzo Ebe Ili” (meaning the ten quarters of Ibusa). the community, in his social transformation, moved from ‘Igbuzo Ebe Ite neni” (without the Ogboli Quarters) to “Igbuzo Ebe Ili” without the addition of the Ogboli. Prof Onwuejeogwu, a renowned Anioma Historian from the community submitted that a ‘friendship of alliance developed into a complicated political union. The union he refers to, is the Igbuzo and Ogboli settlements. Ogboli was founded by Edi while Igbuzo was founded by Umejei. However, the Igbuzo and Ezukwu, also founded by Ishite were closely related, coming from Isu while Edini journeyed from Nri. Umejei and Edini were biological brothers. This political union has ...