baddosky1:


Igbos have never been cannibals before and the corpse water drinking has been abolished too!

Look for another line!

Lol, see this one, Go and tell ngwa people how they like human flesh. You say werin, abolish wetting. How and when did you think I knew about such barbaric tradition in igbo land. You can keep deceiving yourself here on nairaland.

ikennaf1:
One of the disadvantages of Christianity at the time. The people regarded as osu are just people who devoted themselves and family and future families to the worship of a fetish deity.... mostly due to safety reasons or hunger.

Due to influx of Christianity at the time, those people were therefore declared outcasts. They and their descendants. It's all shades of wrong. Whatever one does in a bid to protect himself, he should not be judged for it. During the civil war, a whole community dedicated themselves to a deity when their community fell to Nigerian soldiers. They shouldn't be judged for it, but they are. Religion is not hypocritical but it turns on the hypocrisy in us.

Christianity didn't declare them as outcasts... it was the hypocrisy in humans that did.

As a matter of fact, most Nigerian Christians will want to distance themselves from people whose families are said to have dedicated themselves to one deity or the other.

I don't think you have the correct version of what the osu caste system is.. I first read about it in chinua achebe's Things Fall Apart. It is not entirely about Christianity and paganism. It is mainly about freeborns and slaves. It is quite complex.
Do more research on the subject matter please.

KillaBeauty:
What a joke! It might be abolished but trust Igbo people to still subconsciously practice it. The Indians abolished their own caste system and infact made it illegal many years ago but till today, people are still treated according to the caste system they belong to. Let a “free born” first try and get married to a person that is an osu, you’d see how the free born’s whole family will kick against it. Abolished my yansh

Give change a chance baby.
There is no harm trial.

Westbestside:
Lol, see this one, Go and tell ngwa people how they like human flesh. You say werin, abolish wetting. How and when did you think I knew about such barbaric tradition in igbo land. You can keep deceiving yourself here on nairaland.

Because that is what your parents told you! But day in and day out, we see the atrocities committed by gbegiri guzzlers a.k.a sophisticated m0rons on the pages of the newspapers and the internet.

Westbestside:
Lol, see this one, Go and tell ngwa people how they like human flesh. You say werin, abolish wetting. How and when did you think I knew about such barbaric tradition in igbo land. You can keep deceiving yourself here on nairaland.

Is that all you know?

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baddosky1:


Because that is what your parents told you! But day in and day out, we see the atrocities committed by gbegiri guzzlers a.k.a sophisticated m0rons on the pages of the newspapers and the internet.

[/s]Oga ade, my parents never been to igboland, I was the one that have been there. I saw the tradition with my eyes. No amount of shout can cover all that sheat. Even chioma my gf told me about such barbaric tradition which she never knew I know of. I served in eastern part of Nigeria, so I saw it with my eyes. Leave innocent parent out of it. They careless of your existence. You are hyperventilating, if you are not doing such barbaric tradition, it won't pain you this way. Being a 21st century idiots can deal with your brain. That your sister really gave you perfect description. 21st century idiot

Fianze93:



Your last paragraph is a fat lie... I'm Igbo and I dine and sleep in the house of a lot of Ọsụ friends that I have... And my family knows about it.

In all sincerity, the only thing I have been 'indirectly' warned against is marriage to an Osu. The warning wasn't from my father... But from my paternal grandmother, who is a core Igbo traditional religion member. And I believe most non osu's have been warned directly or indirectly against intermarriage...

As for my maternal home, being good Christians with an Anglican Archdeacon(Priest) as the oldest man and several other priest as members of the extended family... They give no f*ck about the caste system... There are Atleast one of my mothers 2nd cousin who is married to an Osu.

I am made to understand that when
any of your family or extended family marries
an Osu, it automatically turns you all
to Osu.

Correct me if I'm right.

Westbestside:
[s][/s]Oga ade, my parents never been to igboland, I was the one that have been there. I saw the tradition with my eyes. No amount of shout can cover all that sheat. Even chioma my gf told me about such barbaric tradition which she never knew I know of. I served in eastern part of Nigeria, so I saw it with my eyes. Leave innocent parent out of it. They careless of your existence. You are hyperventilating, if you are not doing such barbaric tradition, it won't pain you this way. Being a 21st century idiots can deal with your brain. That your sister really gave you perfect description. 21st century idiot

So you mean you actually passed through the four walls of a university and still have a horrible English lexis based on your structure of words? You are representation of what the South-Waste educational system is. Now tell me son...who is the idiot here?

People of Ukwani in delta igbo still practice OSU caste system in marriage n leadership.
Igbos have deep rooted problem

Geesaintagape:
People of Ukwani in delta igbo still practice OSU caste system in marriage n leadership.
Igbos have deep rooted problem

Ishilove please can you verify this?

bigfrancis21:


Ishilove please can you verify this?

I am shocked, nay, mortified at such a dangerously bold and recklessly reckless lie. Hian

Geesaintagape:
People of Ukwani in delta igbo still practice OSU caste system in marriage n leadership.
Igbos have deep rooted problem

Pray tell, which parts of Ukwuani land practice Osu system?

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mercyville:


Continue to hide behind your index finger.
Cannibalism,OSU and anything that has to do with human skull and flesh are all cultures of the Igbos.White missionaries confirmed these in the 'history of the Igbos '...Among the Ibos of Nigeria...
Excerpt:

THE IBO COUNTRY 39

sionary, in order that he might receive instruction. In
the course of his remarks he solemnly asserted that it
would be of great benefit to his son if he were provided
with human flesh sometimes as part of his diet. He
maintained that, if this were done, a proper man's spirit
would develop in the lad.

The Royal Niger Company concluded many treaties with
native chiefs and kings during their period of administra-
tion of the country. By these treaties certain rights were
conceded to the Company, and they in return, granted
among other considerations, a promise of protection.
The people of Awkuzu had ever been a truculent crowd,
and raided not only on their own account but went further,
and procured bands of Abams to assist them in their
predatory excursions. An appeal to the Company for
protection was made by a town in the neighbourhood, and
in due course troops were dispatched to cool the ardour
of the disturbers of the peace.

The majority of the carriers employed for the soldiers
were Onitsha men, and this is the story related concerning
some of them. After some preliminary fighting, the
troops entered Awkuzu and settled into camp. When all
was apparently quiet a party of carriers considered the
time was opportune for them to secure their share of the
loot, and they went away bent on plunder. But the Awku-
zus were wily men. They had anticipated the move and
had planned a deliberate trap for possible looters. Some
goats were placed in one of the compounds and the Awku-
zus secreted themselves in the neighbourhood. Presently
the gang of carriers arrived, attracted by the goats, and
they walked right into the ambush. Some fought their
way back to camp, but seventeen were left dead or alive,
in the hands of the Awkuzu braves. The story is that of
these the dead were eaten first, and later the wounded
followed the fate of their comrades. Those who were
uninjured were trussed up like fowls, and in this way kept
until required.

Towards the south, cannibal tendencies assumed a
worse aspect. All that has been said hitherto relates to
the prevalent custom of feasting upon captives taken in



40 THE 1BO COUNTRY

war. In the southern districts a regular traffic in human
flesh was carried on. Strangers were caught, or slaves
purchased, with the deliberate intention of converting
them into food. Human flesh was a marketable com-
modity, and a common article of diet. It is not long
since a certain chief managed to get possession of one of
his opponents against whom he had a grudge of long
standing. He derived satisfaction from first lopping off
the captive's ears and nose, and then flaying him alive.
The carcase was eaten and the skin converted into a drum-
head.

There is not a shadow of doubt that, could the history
of the Ibo country be clearly traced, a host of suchlike
stories would have to be recorded. I have become ac-
quainted with many erstwhile cannibals, and quite good-
natured folk most of they are. One week-end I was stay-
ing at a town a few miles S.E. of Onitsha. My quarters
were very circumscribed, the only accommodation available
being a tiny thatched lean-to shed against the compound
wall, usually occupied by the goats and fowls. My boys
and carriers shared the limited accomodation, lying at
night alongside the camp-bed. After the evening meal,
we settled down for the night, long before our customary
bedtime ; consequently the men chattered freely. Pre-
sently I became interested in the conversation, and
amongst other items of news, gathered that they had all
had a share in cannibal feasts.

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You are bringing out ancient outdated articles from an archive! What about Adeyemi Alao who used his girlfriend for rituals and buried her under his bed about a week ago? Your people are savages who are lazy and believe that wealth is acquired from fetish means such as money rituals and dismembering human parts!

Hide your face in shame!!

ikennaf1:
One of the disadvantages of Christianity at the time. The people regarded as osu are just people who devoted themselves and family and future families to the worship of a fetish deity.... mostly due to safety reasons or hunger.

Due to influx of Christianity at the time, those people were therefore declared outcasts. They and their descendants. It's all shades of wrong. Whatever one does in a bid to protect himself, he should not be judged for it. During the civil war, a whole community dedicated themselves to a deity when their community fell to Nigerian soldiers. They shouldn't be judged for it, but they are. Religion is not hypocritical but it turns on the hypocrisy in us.

Christianity didn't declare them as outcasts... it was the hypocrisy in humans that did.

As a matter of fact, most Nigerian Christians will want to distance themselves from people whose families are said to have dedicated themselves to one deity or the other.

STOP THIS FALLACY AND GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT, CHRISTIANS WERE THE FIRST PEOPLE TO EMBRACE
THE SO CALLED OSU PEOPLE, BROUGHT THEM INTO THE CHURCH AND INTEGRATED WITH THEM TO THE DISAPPROVAL OF TRADITIONAL WORSHIPERS.

Teacher1776:

I don't think you have the correct version of what the osu caste system is.. I first read about it in chinua achebe's Things Fall Apart. It is not entirely about Christianity and paganism. It is mainly about freeborns and slaves. It is quite complex.
Do more research on the subject matter please.

Yes exactly

Hope the king is ready to face the gods and ancestors? This is easier said than done so far Igbo land is concerns. Eze uchegi dikwaya

baddosky1:
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You are bringing out ancient outdated articles from an archive! What about Adeyemi Alao who used his girlfriend for rituals and buried her under his bed about a week ago? Your people are savages who are lazy and believe that wealth is acquired from fetish means such as money rituals and dismembering human parts!

Hide your face in shame!!

I thought you said cannibalism is not your culture..

baddosky1:
[s][/s]

You are bringing out ancient outdated articles from an archive! What about Adeyemi Alao who used his girlfriend for rituals and buried her under his bed about a week ago? Your people are savages who are lazy and believe that wealth is acquired from fetish means such as money rituals and dismembering human parts!

Hide your face in shame!!

Igbos and skulls are like 1&2.No wonder they exported it to other regions like SW

africanusvu:
Hope the king is ready to face the gods and ancestors? This is easier said than done so far Igbo land is concerns. Eze uchegi dikwaya

Shut up! Which foolish gods?All these barbarian cultures should be done away with because they have further stagnated the blacks.Even the foolish Oro they occasionally do in Lagos and a few Yorubaland.

mercyville:


Igbos and skulls are like 1&2.No wonder they exported it to other regions like SW

Yoruba and r@pe, hired killing, skull mining and internet fraud are like 5&6. No wonder they export it to other countries like UK and US.

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baddosky1:


So you mean you actually passed through the four walls of a university and still have a horrible English lexis based on your structure of words? You are representation of what the South-Waste educational system is. Now tell me son...who is the idiot here?

Lol, every attempt to divert from the point in of discussion won't work. I know 21st century idiots have no sense. They will talk of your English but won't ever try to do the correction to show how they are good in their own aba made English. All these south least people eh. Drinking corpse water is a serious issue . Oga ade, go and ask your sister that gave you and your lineage the perfect name. 21st century idiot.

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ikennaf1:
One of the disadvantages of Christianity at the time. The people regarded as osu are just people who devoted themselves and family and future families to the worship of a fetish deity.... mostly due to safety reasons or hunger.

Due to influx of Christianity at the time, those people were therefore declared outcasts. They and their descendants. It's all shades of wrong. Whatever one does in a bid to protect himself, he should not be judged for it. During the civil war, a whole community dedicated themselves to a deity when their community fell to Nigerian soldiers. They shouldn't be judged for it, but they are. Religion is not hypocritical but it turns on the hypocrisy in us.

Christianity didn't declare them as outcasts... it was the hypocrisy in humans that did.

As a matter of fact, most Nigerian Christians will want to distance themselves from people whose families are said to have dedicated themselves to one deity or the other.

Osu has nothing to do with Christianity. It existed before the missionaries came to Igboland.

They are a group of people or families dedicated to serve the gods. This responsibility is passed on down generations. It's like the Levites in the Bible times.

Westbestside:
Lol, every attempt to divert from the point in of discussion won't work. I know 21st century idiots have no sense. They will talk of your English but won't ever try to do the correction to show how they are good in their own aba made English. All these south least people eh. Drinking corpse water is a serious issue . Oga ade, go and ask your sister that gave you and your lineage the perfect name. 21st century idiot.

It's not my duty to correct you! Come to the South East which is known for their outstanding performance in SSCE and JAMB examinations and enroll for Primary School lessons all over again. At least we'd be sure that you won't finish with an oluwole certificate like Thief-nubu and oluwole discharge certificate like Kemi Ode-osun who you scoundrels from the south-waste compare to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala who just got appointed in the board of Twitter after many numerous awards and recognitions internationally

But just promise you won't go there and start mining skulls or rape children like your savage ancestors and relatives.

Princeofnigeria:
who's this awa? I guess that's why you are not married yet, because you're an osu

First of all, I am a freeborn, full one o! My grandad got the highest title of 'ozo' before his demise.
Secondly, I'm a Christian and there is no slave in Christ.

I'm 22, very much young for marriage. Marriage will come but, I have a lot to do before then.
Your sisters, cousin and even your mother that is married, how are their lives?
I'm sure no one will even agree to marry you because of your very distasteful character. Aturu!

MiriamMoney:

First of all, I am a freeborn, full one o! My grandad got the highest title of 'ozo' before his demise.
Secondly, I'm a Christian and there is no slave in Christ.

I'm 22, very much young for marriage. Marriage will come but, I have a lot to do before then.
Your sisters, cousin and even your mother that is married, how are their lives?
I'm sure no one will even agree to marry you because of your very distasteful character. Aturu!

you're 22 with this your old face.


I pity you, freeborn my foot, we know what you and your Eastern sisters do for a living "ashi that's what you're

Princeofnigeria:
you're 22 with this your old face.


I pity you, freeborn my foot, we know what you and your Eastern sisters do for a living "ashi that's what you're

� You're just plain pathetic! And if I have never prostituted in my life, may you never see the end of 2018, Amen!

Your mother will be 'proud'.

Princeofnigeria:
you're 22 with this your old face.


I pity you, freeborn my foot, we know what you and your Eastern sisters do for a living "ashi that's what you're

You're just plain pathetic! And if I have never prostituted or anything of sort, may you never see the end of 2018.

Your mother will be 'proud'.

MiriamMoney:


You're just plain pathetic! And if I have never prostituted or anything of sort, may you never see the end of 2018.

Your mother will be 'proud'.

you'll never see the end this very month

Princeofnigeria:
you'll never see the end this very month

Mr respect urself....Is very pathetic u bounding words with a lady.

Princeofnigeria:
you'll never see the end this very month

I agree, that is if I have ever prostituted or a prostitute.
If not, you life will be miserable. You will be involved in a fatal accident that will destroy your manhood for life! No jokes!