Emeka Esogbue

Ibusa: The Multiplicity of Names, Identity Crisis Creation and the Way Forward     - Emeka Esogbue As I write this article, my community does not only remain colonially tied to the British administration but suffers a terrible 'identity sickness.' No one has seen any community with as many conflicting pronunciations, claims, facts, and spellings of its name as my community and a rise by the leadership to invoke a symmetric correspondence among these constituent components and immediately involve the government of the day-to-gazette it seems more difficult a feat to achieve in the present era. It stands to the truth that a name is the first characteristic by which a person, thing, or place is known, and where a name carries crisis, everything soon goes wrong. The identity of a people begins with the name that they bear. Ibusa is located in Delta State and is one of the important communities in the state due to its human resources, population, and strategic location...