I'm About To Marry An 'Outcast' (Osu) Guy

thanx for the correction, but i spoke only of the tribe i know. did you really expect me to know the culture of 250 ethnic groups? or do you want someone to flash out an abuse to me for describing his/her group inappropriately? thanx for your comments anyway, but how come you were silent on the statement below. . . .


can you really marry someone whom your father or mother vehemently resists. i love humanity, i respect all decent  peoples of all tribes and religions, but i'm not sure i can love anybody well enough to break my dad's fragile heart or my mum. i'm not perfect, but i'm not evil. i love my parents and i would want to bring home someone that is acceptable. luckily they don't care about the tribe of the girl i bring home. all they care about is if she is a xtain, educated and from a good family. . . . . . and if she is ibo, they will care about the osu thingy. . . . . well, i can't break their heart.
luckily i have not brought home someone they don't like , but i know within me that even if i fall for a girl that is osu, i'll have to end the affair as i can't marry her. it is for the sake of my family, they have given me so much and i can't afford to give them a heart break.  if i were an osu, i'll marry a white woman, or a non-ibo nigerian. and lots of them are doing that. that way nobody will talk about these things and it'll die off.

cultures die hard but don't criminalise the ibos of today for that culture. 200 years after slavery a lot of peeps still think blacks are not full humans. 200 years ago, non-osus will not use the same market as osus. today we do everything, including sex, except marriage. some peeps have gone ahead to even marry osus at a great cost. but with time, education, enlightenement it will change.

This Osu thing is a despicable custom. But I want to stress that it is not found in all Igboland, at least not in Abia state. I know it exists in parts and not all of Imo. Can't say for Anambra and Enugu. My own state of Abia is Osu-free  . The Osu caste system must be done away with and soon too.

@Poster

I wish you (by this I mean people who damn the culture and marry the so-called Osus) can be the guinea pig (experimental animal) as we say in biology, for the final extermination of this custom. Lets see who will query you for doing so.

Please keep us informed on this matter when the marriage is consumated

I couldn't help smiling after reading your post,Germannig,the Osu cast system is alive and well in Abia State.That's my state and the story I related earlier happened in Abia State.Shameful but true.It's not like people are going about avoiding Osu but when you really know it's alive and kicking is when the issue of marriage comes up.