Emeka Esogbue

 I HAVE WORKED HARD TO PRESERVE THE OMUSHIP OF MY ANIOMA PEOPLE Read What the Omu Anioma Said on Omuship "When I became Omu, I met five elderly women and they were convinced that the Omu Institution would go into extinction after six of us finished our earthly journey. So, in 2005, I went to Prof E. A. C. Nwanze from Asaba, the then Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin, and pleaded with him to set up a committee of Anioma sons and daughters from the Department of Anthropology and Sociology to look into Omuship so that we can have something for future generations since the Omu Institution was going into extinction while I go on the ground to talk to some of our elderly people before they pass on. Prof Nwanze graciously obliged me and set up a Committee headed by Dr. Ikechukwu Enwenwa from Ogwashi-Uku who was the then Head of the Sociology Department. The Committee worked extensively with the research of world-renowned and famous Anthropologist, the late Prof Mike Angulu Onwue...