If you are from Anambra state,then you should know Obosi village.
Well as it seems,the lockdown period got me locked up in Obosi for some adventure and I took out time to find out about my ancestors.
Look and behold I discovered my great grand father was the first man to build an upstairs building in Obosi in 1904 while the Igwes upstairs building was built in 1908.

And you his children couldn't preserve it well?

In a sane country or state, this house would have been maintained by government and turned into a historic tourist site.

I have seen buildings built in the 12 the century still looking good and habitable because of care and value placed on it.

I feel sad for our total lack of respect to history in this country .

Okoroawusa:
And you his children couldn't preserve it well?

we will do that. Non of my elder siblings care to know their true origin. I took my chances with the lockdown to get some history of my great grand father.

domDva:
In a sane country or state, this house would have been maintained by government and turned into a historic tourist site.

I have seen buildings built in the 12 the century still looking good and habitable because of care and value placed on it.

I feel sad for our total lack of respect to history in this country .

I assure you I will preserve this.

Wow

Mother of the merchant,my paternal great grand mother.

N..no!

Moralgladiator:
If you are from Anambra state,then you should know Obosi village.
Well as it seems,the lockdown period got me locked up in Obosi for some adventure and I took out time to find out about my ancestors.
Look and behold I discovered my great grand father was the first man to build an upstairs building in Obosi in 1904 while the Igwes upstairs building was built in 1908.

Weldone!!! Its good to connect to one's root.

Juliearth:





Weldone!!! Its good to connect to one's root.

Adaeze Anene, From the royal lineage who was later to become my maternal great grand mother after the Igwe built his own upstairs in 1908.

Picture of her first daughter getting married in late 1920s after the loss of the throne due to controversial early death with no heir apparent.

My maternal grand mother,the first fruit of that marriage. Adaeze Chikwa Anowi,nee Anene.

Moralgladiator:
Adaeze Anene, From the royal lineage who was later to become my maternal great grand mother after the Igwe built his own upstairs in 1908.

It made remember this song "Ogidi na olu Igwe"

I love historical sites and monuments. That's why I took at time to visit historical sites in UK why I was doing my masters.

I visited both Cambridge and Oxford universities to see the labs of those famous scientists that I read about in my secondary school advance physics like Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Rutherford and co.

Visited a lot of ancient buildings in Scotland. We should cultivate the habit of preserving buildings and not destroying to elect new ones.

My university in UK is more than 200 years and some of the buildings were the stone and brick buildings still standing up till now.

Go to UNN, Ife and co and see dilapidated buildings built in 1960 without adequate maintenance.

We lack maintenance culture in Nigeria.

Moralgladiator:
we will do that. Non of my elder siblings care to know their true origin. I took my chances with the lockdown to get some history of my great grand father.

That's wonderful. Keep it up. History is good

Okoroawusa:

That's wonderful. Keep it up. History is good

without knowledge of our history and origin we are actually nothing. Thanks brother