Emeka Esogbue

Preserving Monuments; Preserving the Tomorrow of our Ibusa - Emeka Esogbue The Ibusa community has a rich history, cultural legacy, values, artwork, architecture, and possible historical sites, but none of them appear to have been preserved. The Ani Oshe is the original location of habitation for the Igbuzo people. There is also the Ani Udo site, which is thought to be the initial settlement of Edini, Ogboli's founder, and is now part of the Ibusa community. In contrast, both hallowed places, spiritually exalted by divine sanction and holding the utmost devotion and entitled to tremendous reverence since they are inviolable, consecrated, and devoted to sanctity as the oldest Igbuzo points of settlement, are utterly neglected. The late Philip Ngozi Kwusike photographed and reported on the Ani Oshe, Umejei's first home, where his pot of charm was said to have dropped, leading to the foundation of the Igbuzo settlement, a few years ago, and readers were shocked to discover that th...

  Ibusa: Rich in Okpuzu Waterfall, Poor in Tourism - Emeka Esogbue One area the Ibusa community is lacking in development is the tourism sector. To think that the Ibusa community has everything but tourism is an unfavorable omen to the loaded people of the community. To further think that the community has what other communities do not have in the distinctive Okpuzu Waterfall is to be curious about what the people do with this endowment. In 2008, an article appeared online in which compilers called for the contributions of tourist sites in Delta State. This author (Dr. Emeka Esogbue), quickly listed the Okpuzu Waterfall, the steep descent water of the Oboshi River in the community as a potential site for tourism in Delta State. A few years later, the author received a call from a crew of researchers who attempted to dig into the waterfall for identification and documentation. Sensing that the researchers whose planned journey to the fall had been announced would be accompan...