Ignorance is not bliss. A person who does not know should strive to know, not wallow in the unawareness of relevant issues. Ignorance is a dangerous disease; its consequences are costly. Humans must be curious and desist from feeding off the spoons of spoilers masquerading as enlightened entities. We should subscribe to honest conversations about the future of humanity. Life has been changing since the Big Bang. It is not stopping.
On July 19, 2025, the hyped uprising in Ghana came and collapsed. The anti-Igbo/ Nigerian emotions were based on a lie from the hearth of hell. The events exposed the ignorance of many Africans, especially Ghanaians in this case. This morning, many went to church, including the enablers of elementary ethnophobia. They go to worship a Jew who lived 2000 years ago and asked only for one ultimate commandment: “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Mark 12.31).
The meat of the matter was that an Igbo man dreamt of building a village, where his people would gather and celebrate their culture in Ghana. No land was bought. No palace was built. Just a decade-old idea. For this, his people were targeted for expulsion and or elimination.
We have Chinatowns, even in Enugu. Ama Awụsa (Hausa villages) exist in Igbo towns. Sabon Gari dot northern cities. An Igbo village in Staunton, Virginia, USA was built by the government! Oyotunji African Kingdom, a Yoruba village, sits on 27 acres of land in Sheldon, Beaufort County, South Carolina. The list is long.
If not for ignorance, that a self-styled ‘HRM Eze Dr. Chukwudi Jude Ihenetu’ was building a kingdom in his head should not have stirred this level of dangerous demagoguery in Ghana. Even supposed pan-Africanists like Femi Akomolafe and emerging ‘O’Mockery’ gangs vented their undisguised anti-Igbo venoms. The spirited but senseless synecdochizing of the Igbo has crossed all lines. How do supposedly sane souls proudly project any purported bad act of one person bearing an Igbo-sounding name on the Igbo nation?
We must expose these inflammatory individuals. The people are not the problem. We know our advantageous differences. We thrive with them. The problem is using the differences to foment fraternal fracas and trigger reckless radicalism in partisan politics. This is what Hassan Ayariga did in Ghana. It is the same sickness some prominent politicians suffered in 2023 Nigerian elections.
Read President Tinubu’s spokesperson Bayo Onanuga on X @aonanuga1956, Mar 18, 2023: “Let 2023 be the last time of Igbo interference in Lagos politics. Let there be no repeat in 2027. Lagos is like Anambra, Imo, any Nigerian state. It is not No Man’s Land, not Federal Capital Territory. It is Yoruba land. Mind your business.” This statement is worse than what a notorious Lagos tout said in his “Mama Chinedu” madness because Onanuga is a prominent person with the power to trigger a pogrom.
After many moons of taunting the Igbo by castigating Peter Obi (ably supported by his son—later an honorable member), Nasir El-Rufai is now joined to the hip of Obi like a strange Siamese twin. All is forgotten, but the damage is deep and grows where he has planted xenophobic sentiments. Edo’s Governor Monday Okpebholo is copying.
In June 2012, Muhammadu Buhari vented his warped ethnophobia in “a dot in a circle” speech and threatened to “talk to them in the language that they understand.” Here was a president, an army officer during the genocidal war of Yakubu Gowon. Even Twitter (now X) flagged the speech as provocative. Buhari is gone; the Igbo nation thrives. No one can kill a nation!
Instead of addressing the meat of the matter, the warrant chiefs of Igboland, masquerading as “Southeast monarchs” allegedly “abolished” the use of “Eze Ndiigbo” in diaspora! On whose mandate, please?
“Eze” is not the equivalent of king: the Igbo nation has no king: “Igbo énwe eze”—the Igbo are republicans! “Eze” conveys ‘first among equals’ in certain enterprises: ezeanị (priest of the Earth deity, Anị), ezeji (dominant yam farmer), ezeahịa (market master), ezenwaanyị (priestess of a sacred stream), … Ezeigwe (dominant deity of havens), etc.
A man who calls himself “Eze” of whatever or wherever has committed no crime; it is a common surname. “Eze Ndiigbo na Ghana” is a chief, just as the Hausa and Yoruba reportedly have theirs. He could be voted out of the position and replaced, unlike the 1001 loyal-for-life, government-imposed ‘Ezeobodo’ in Igboland.
What happened in Ghana is a dangerous cocktail of partisan politics, pathetic prejudice, and unbridled xenophobia. Inciting citizens to hate and, potentially, harm others is criminal. Even the Ghanaian foreign minister spoke from a place of ignorance. We must hold individuals responsible for propagating ethnophobia and xenophobia. That’s a way to arrest potential pogroms in Nigeria and ECOWAS region.
#moe, 7.20.2025
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