History of Uguzo Emekuku festival and crush of umu-Okoro Ubochi clan

 

A BRIEF APPRAISAL OF THE CORRELATIVE RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL AFFINITY OF UGUZO EMEKE FESTIVAL AND OKITANKWO ESHIMESHI ( EZIOKOM ) GODDESS 


The Uguzo cultural festival, is a reenactment of the events, following the spiritual warfare waged by Okwu Emeke community, against the umu Okoro ubochi clan, a race of giants, entrepreneurs and tyrannical oppressors of the aboriginal inhabitants of Okwu Emeke, who came from the Aro stock to intimidate the people and usurp their natural inheritance. 

The spiritual warfare was made in such a way that a disagreement concerning the juicy osukwu palm fruit prompted a fratricidal war, that led the race to fall upon each other in blood shed, until only the eldest and most helpless among them, was the only one left. 

The people of Okwu Emeke dehumanized, degraded and taunted him, as he was made to sweep the roads and pathways, as he did this, he sang a soulful lamentation. 

Their sister married at Ezedibia, on getting the news of annihilation of her kinsmen, she rushed down to Okwu Emeke, to see for herself, fording through the Okitankwo stream. 



When she beheld the death of her kinsmen and the degradation of the eldest man, she broke into heartending mournful dirge, which sang eulogizing her brothers one after the other, extolling their potentials which had been cut short.    While still singing this dirge, she retreated to Ezedibia and upon stepping into the Okitankwo stream, she vanished and metamorphosed into a spiritual principality known as Eziokom. 

Written by Bertha Uchechi Nnaji, 

Eze Nwanyi Okitankwo,

Agbara Nwanyi Eshimeshi 

( Priestess and Custodian)

                                          



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