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Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by muykem: 7:06pm On Sep 14, 2020
HabaHaba:


Why display such unprecedented level of Myopic insolence?!!!! Why are you angry? Is OSU not human being?

Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by muykem: 7:07pm On Sep 14, 2020
peropoliet:
this comment alone shows that nairaland need to have a fool section for people like this
Why are you angry? Is OSU not human being?

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Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by Okwyjesus(m): 7:09pm On Sep 14, 2020
Blue3k:


Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54088880

In my place. The ohus have interwoven with the free born that no one cares.
Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by Nobody: 7:09pm On Sep 14, 2020
AustineJohn908:
We have our problems concerning that, and we are trying to change it but u guys have refused to change urs

What a weak defence...Lol

How people rush to form saints with logs of wood in their eyes Marvels me.

Suddenly you started stuttering of how you have problems and how you are solving but you also read the thread on various steps taken in solving issues.

What a change that remained unchanged...Buharis' change Dem.

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Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by History555: 7:11pm On Sep 14, 2020
Blue3k:


Lol the people doing that criminals and should be jailed or sentenced to death. Doing hard to children is always evil. How's this thread anti Igbo anyway? You guys lack reading comprehension skills.

Every one knows you for starting anti lgbo thread. It's like your shadow........follows you every where
Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by maximilano: 7:11pm On Sep 14, 2020
Hmmmm
Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. If you insult other tribes you should have the mind to be at the receiving end too.
Defending evil because you’re trying to save face is toxic to humanity.
Nobody holy pass.
Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by muykem: 7:12pm On Sep 14, 2020
edoairways:

This stereotypical view is false. That many Igbo support Trump doesn't mean all of them do. And secondly, Trump is not a racist as been painted by the mainstream media
what was Trump reaction to the killing of black? Trump has never openly condemned racism either in his private life or public life so what are you saying.
Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by Olaolufred(m): 7:12pm On Sep 14, 2020
Anyone who believes in Osu being slaves descendant and also believe in igbos marginalization in Nigeria is an hypocrite.

Anyone who shouts "All lives matter" and still believe in this osu thing is an hypocrite.

We are born equal.

And that's one reason I hate house girls being treated as inferior to son and daughters of those who hire them.

If you can't treat house girls like your child in love and with dignity, there's no need keeping them.

Hypocrisy must stop.
Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by edoairways: 7:13pm On Sep 14, 2020
muykem:
what was Trump reaction to the killing of black? Trump has never openly condemned racism either in his private life or public life so what are you saying.
Condemning racism doesn't end it rather drastic measures are put in place.
Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by BBBmall25: 7:14pm On Sep 14, 2020
goodnessme1:
Foolish Amotekun terrorists will come here to show their foolishness.


Boko haram people will come here to talk nonesense.





Not that they are better.
Bad Energy Like This One Is What I Just Read Up There

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Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by nwele2017: 7:14pm On Sep 14, 2020
people Will be saying what they don't know. I have witnessed this osu outcast firsthand, if you get married to osu or you have any close relationship with osu you, who is freeborn, Will never prosper. These things happens, we Igbos believe in and it does happen
Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by Babygirltess: 7:14pm On Sep 14, 2020
Blue3k:


Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54088880
My own question is why did they choose to kill themselves, why not run away and live peacefully... Comitting suicide is one way ticket to hell tho
Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by History555: 7:15pm On Sep 14, 2020
Chlerion:
They are outcasts...they are OSUs

If anybody marries from them, the person is cursed automatically. A sane person would avoid associating or doing anything with them from the east of Niger.


Says who. Who will curse you. Have would you know if a person is osu.
Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by History555: 7:18pm On Sep 14, 2020
sesan85:


Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani who wrote the article is your fellow Igbo. Do you mean she's "trying hard to rope" her Igbo race?

Every afonja is now an expert on lgbo matters but a dummy on afonja matters

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Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by sesan85(m): 7:18pm On Sep 14, 2020
SocialJustice:
All tribes in Nigeria, not just igbos need to hold meetings to discard traditions that are useless in modern day Nigeria.

This is about the barbaric, inhumane, primitive, uncivilized Igbo Osu tradition for now. Leave other ethnic groups out of it.

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Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by Nobody: 7:18pm On Sep 14, 2020
Igbos are one of the most discriminatory tribes in Nigeria. I say this even as an igbo lady.
That's why I sometimes laugh when I hear some people agitating for Biafra. Igbos are not united and Biafra will remain a tall dream.
Sighs.

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Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by sesan85(m): 7:20pm On Sep 14, 2020
ZZ22:
Which of the south west do people live freely? the skull mining and ritual capital of the world?

Then why are millions of your fellow Osus living in the South West? Shouldn't you go back to your erosion-ravaged landlocked hellhole if South West is so bad?

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Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by chukemmang(m): 7:21pm On Sep 14, 2020
nosiebaba:
we will shout black lives matter yet we dont see any value within ourselves.

Later some fools will blame the white man for slave trade. The white man simply saw the constantly existent foolishness in the black man in the owning of slaves for no economic benefit and simply copied us but used black slaves for huge economic benefits.

The white man simply copied what he saw we blacks do. And it is called a trade because he paid for the slaves and didn't seize them by force. That also means fellow blacks received blood money in exchange for the lives of their fellow blacks.

The white man is not to be blamed for the killing and maltreatment of black slaves. The white man simply bought goods that had no value to his black business counterparts and the white man can do whatever he pleases with the goods he bought.

The white man is innocent.

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Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by Blue3k(m): 7:23pm On Sep 14, 2020
History555:


Every one knows you for starting anti lgbo thread. It's like your shadow........follows you every where

Lol this thread anti igbo igbo because backwardsness discrimination is fundamental to Igbo culture? If I make an anti terrorism thread you'd probably claim it's anti fulani by that idiotic thought process. I'll never understand your backward logic.

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Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by Unified07: 7:24pm On Sep 14, 2020
There is nothing racist about it,in Igbo Land we marry in tribes that's it, everyone should marry from his or her lineage
E.g Isaac advised his children JACOB AND ESSAU NOT TO MARRY FROM ISHMAELITE RATHER THEY SHOULD TRAVEL TO THEIR MUM PLACE REBECCA TO GO AND MARRY,is a lesson
Of course we know that ESSAU DISOBEYED the rest is history
Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by chukemmang(m): 7:24pm On Sep 14, 2020
Chii59:
Igbos are one of the most discriminatory tribes in Nigeria. I say this even as an igbo lady.
That's why I sometimes laugh when I hear some people agitating for Biafra. Igbos are not united and Biafra will remain a tall dream.
Sighs.

Nwannem nwaanyi, ezi okwu ka ikwuru. Ndi Igbo ahughi onwe ha n'anya.

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Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by sesan85(m): 7:24pm On Sep 14, 2020
Igboid:
Not every Igbo clan practice Osu/Ohu system, why then the hasty generalization?
What's the aim of this thread?

For example, the Ngwas and the Aros don't practice Osu system. Likewise the Asa and Ndokis. That's like 4/5 of Abia state where this Osu thing is not in practice. Osu is not practiced in almost all parts of Ebonyi state.


The Osu thing is also very poorly understood by modern Igbos let alone outsiders .

Lastly, a lot of work is being done to eliminate the Osu/Ohu thing in parts of Igboland where they are being practiced by Ndiigbo, especially Imo state and Nsukka area of Enugu state and we don't need Nigerians help. We would appreciate it if Nigerians would focus more on their own societal ills and leave Ndiigbo alone to sort out ours in peace.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/osu-caste-system-dead-myth-reality/


"We would appreciate it if Nigerians
would focus more on their own societal ills and
leave Ndiigbo alone to sort out ours in peace."

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, your fellow Igbo, wrote this article about your barbaric, inhumane, primitive, uncivilized Osu tradition. Why are you bringing "Nigerians" into this?

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Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by Unified07: 7:24pm On Sep 14, 2020
Blue3k:


Lol this thread anti igbo igbo because backwardsness discrimination is fundamental to Igbo culture? If I make an anti terrorism thread you'd probably claim it's anti fulani by that idiotic thought process. I'll never understand your backward logic.
Shut up
Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by Blue3k(m): 7:25pm On Sep 14, 2020
Unified07:

Shut up

Make me pussy.

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Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by sesan85(m): 7:27pm On Sep 14, 2020
History555:


Every afonja is now an expert on lgbo matters but a dummy on afonja matters

Osu IPOB cretin and baby factory product, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani who wrote the article is
your fellow Igbo. Why bring "Afonja" into this?

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Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by Myer(m): 7:33pm On Sep 14, 2020
ghettowriter:
Stop the hate #OsuLivesMatter.


If you discriminate a person base on his/her ethnicity, race, religion, clan or family ties not in cognisant with the persons parsonality, then you are not a good person and also a part of the world's problems.

The people behind this are in the village and not on social media.
Culture is ingrained in every fibre of those villagers in the east.
Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by Nobody: 7:33pm On Sep 14, 2020
muykem:
Majority of Igbo especially those ones here in nairaland are actually OSU.

And I wonder why the freeborn has refused to let the OSUs go and be on their own.

Tinubu that abandoned his biological mother because of plate of porridge is worse than OSU and OHU combined together.

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Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by Dikebuka: 7:35pm On Sep 14, 2020
sesan85:


Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani who wrote the article is not "non-Igbo." Take it up with her if you don't like the fact that she as your fellow Igbo is exposing your utterly backwards, primitive, uncivilized Osu tradition to the world.

That's one thing with you people. You think igbo is like another tribe....our republican nature makes us too diverse.

Adaobi is saying what applies to her own part of igboland. I am saying what applies in my own part of igboland.

Stop showing your ignorance...I explain why igbos are abit skeptical about OSU...it goes against our core believe which is Freedom...infact OSU is against our "live and let live" slogan.

Like I said again..there are areas in igboland dt dont subscribe to that OSU stuff.. Ume is against incest and other abominable crimes which goes against our core believes. Ume in Owerri can move to Mbaise and become freeborn...
Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by ghettowriter(m): 7:36pm On Sep 14, 2020
Myer:


The people behind this are in the village and not on social media.
Culture is ingrained in every fibre of those villagers in the east.


Not only in the villages. Over here in the city peoply break up engagements everyday over this same Osu cast system.

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Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by Ubanz: 7:36pm On Sep 14, 2020
[quote author=Osagyefo98 post=93919403]If you are an OSU, you remain an OSU and generation unborn can't save you from that.

Forming an association of osus is nothing but inferiority complex.

Traditions remains tradition and can not change because few people feels that one or two things doesn't go their way.

The whole article is nothing but trash and nonsense. The wisdom of our forefathers surpasses that of all these generations.


The gods are wise and their ways unknown to men and for them to stipulate such rules, so shall it.


If you don't like Igbo tradition relocate to yorubaland and change your name to Olaotu or relocate to hausaland and change your name to Kawaii but if you insist on staying in Igboland them you must respect and abide by her traditions...


The tradition makes ndigbo special.[/quotep]

That u re born of a poor & uneducated parents is just a happenstance,and not ur fault otherwise u would hv chosen to be born of an American or Canadian womb or even sired of Arthur Eze or Nzeribe ,but for anyone to be treated as osu or ohu as a result of accident of birth is unjust, uncalled for & inhuman.
What culture & gods re u talking about.
Men will sit down & set rules that will favor them.what hv ur so called gods done for u in Nigeria as an entity.
We only jettison the sections of culture & traditions that doesn't favor us.
What happens to killing of twins & other anomalies,we allowed Christianity to erode all those but allow Osu & Ohu to thrive because it's meant to oppress some families.
but because u re fortunate like me to be born of a womb devoid of slavery, u encourage & uphold the practice even as u proclaim BLM.
One question for the traditionalist.
Would u decline the opportunity to marry a Michael Jackson or Obama's daughter or son?
Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by Dikebuka: 7:37pm On Sep 14, 2020
Osagyefo98:



You are the true son of your father but the tradition is not going anywhere.

It has come to stay . Surrendering your freedom to the gods should not be treated with mildness.

some places have abolished it...we have to give people chance to make their decision.

That's one of the problems caused by our Republican nature but everybody will come to terms with time...
Re: Ohu, Osu: Nigeria's Slave Descendants Prevented From Marrying Who They Want by tubolancer(m): 7:39pm On Sep 14, 2020
goodnessme1:
Foolish Amotekun terrorists will come here to show their foolishness.


Boko haram people will come here to talk nonesense.





Not that they are better.
Are they not better than you spewing nonsense from your mouth. You carry Bible every Sunday, but look at what you are doing to your fellow human being, in short you are lower than a pig.

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