Fhemmmy: What is OSU?

alutacontinua: Somebody should please define the word for me.
I've forgotten!

Bludeville: Anyway, back to the OPs question. Yes, i can marry an osu. And if my brother or sister wanted to marry one, i will give my full blessing and embrace the human that my siblings have fallen in love with. Only ignorant fools consider fellow human beings as sub- human or different. How will the world ever change if we cannot do away with the ignorant/ inhumane/ unfair treatment of fellow human beings by our forefathers?

Godson201333:


You must be an OSU

vivianc: I think some people should sharrap, people's culture are unique to them.

Osu is very real in igboland, in some parts they are avoided like a plague. They don't even share same market-square, or village meetings with the "di alas." The concept of osu is not serious in some parts but they are still recognised as osu. Where I come from, we don't avoid them, but there is always this "oh they are osu" whispering whenever the need arises.

This is the tradition of our forefathers, and it hasn't been abolished, yet. We must acknowledge that whenever we bring someone home for marriage, our parents carry out these investigations behind our back. Saying its primitive is being myopic, as no matter how educated we are, we have roots and most times we go way back to our roots. And sorry, most of our fathers have not embraced the western culture.

However, would I marry an osu? Yes! But that doesn't mean my parents will not kick against it. But where does my loyalty lie? With my parents or with the love of my life?

Poster, this is a decision you have to make. Trust me, no traditional igbo parents would give their blessing, but are u willing to fight this? Is your love greater than the fear of being rejected by ur kinsmen? Think this through ok? Goodluck!

Bludeville:
This is the ranting of a very ignorant fool.

overdrive:
Well said u spoke like a wise old woman and for that u just got urself a follower.

uniqueren:

those are not rantings neither can a fool write that
those are the salient P.O.V of some or do i said most people esp the elderly

as for me I frankly don't think i can marry an osu
but that doesn't mean i will dissuade someone else from marrying his/her partner on that context

vivianc: I think some people should sharrap, people's culture are unique to them.

Osu is very real in igboland, in some parts they are avoided like a plague. They don't even share same market-square, or village meetings with the "di alas." The concept of osu is not serious in some parts but they are still recognised as osu. Where I come from, we don't avoid them, but there is always this "oh they are osu" whispering whenever the need arises.

This is the tradition of our forefathers, and it hasn't been abolished, yet. We must acknowledge that whenever we bring someone home for marriage, our parents carry out these investigations behind our back. Saying its primitive is being myopic, as no matter how educated we are, we have roots and most times we go way back to our roots. And sorry, most of our fathers have not embraced the western culture.

However, would I marry an osu? Yes! But that doesn't mean my parents will not kick against it. But where does my loyalty lie? With my parents or with the love of my life?

Poster, this is a decision you have to make. Trust me, no traditional igbo parents would give their blessing, but are u willing to fight this? Is your love greater than the fear of being rejected by ur kinsmen? Think this through ok? Goodluck!

Bludeville:
This is the ranting of a very ignorant fool.

Bludeville: The
In 1956, the
government of the then Eastern Nigeria passed a
law abolishing the Osu caste system. The law
freed and discharged anybody called Osu
including the children born to such a person. It
declared the practice unlawful – and a crime
punishable by law. But thanks to people with your mentality and the other guy over there, it has refused to stay abolished 57 years later. I bet if it was your type that was sold into slavery, you would still be over there wipinhg the white man's shit, and sucking his cock whilst thinking to yourself "This is the way it is and I did not make it so"