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Flourish Abumere | Godwin Ebosele
PA ELTON 1986-Nigeria will one day be known for righteousness worldwide.
HISTORY Ogbidi Okojie, Onojie (king) of Uromi (1857 – February 3, 1944), was a ruler of the Esan people in what is now part of Edo State in Nigeria, still remembered for his opposition to British rule. According to Uromi lore, Ogbidi Okojie was born in the seventh month of gestation, coming 14th in the line of succession to the Uromi throne. As an African monarch, he believed in his divine right to wield absolute power. Those beliefs motivated his opposition to British Rule, which led to his first exile to Calabar in 1900. In Nigeria, at the end of the nineteenth century, the old order was crumbling, yielding to the new British colonial system. After the Royal Niger Company transferred its territories to the British government, the latter expanded and strengthened its control, unseating the traditional rulers. In 1900, Uromi was invaded by the British troops. Unlike Chief Nana of Brohimie-Warri, who opposed a strong resistance to the British troops when his domain was invad...
ESAN COMMUNITY DIGEST ............ Composed by Ebosele Godwin Ehinomhen WHAT IS LANGUAGE? Language is an everyday term. Can you speak your language? What languages can you speak? These are common language questions. However, language itself is a method of human communication. So, It's a way we humans interact with others and in return, the receiver understands what the speaker has said. This can either be spoken or written. Language is usually valid when it consists of the use of words in a structured way. This method or system of interaction can be used by a certain community or tribe. (Itulua-Abumere, Flourish) ESAN LANGUAGE Esan language is a tonal Edoid language of Nigeria according to Wikipedia. There are many dialects, including Ogwa, Ẹkpoma, Ebhossa, (Ewossa) Ewohimi, Ewu, Ewatto, Ẹkpọn, Ebelle, Igueben, Irrua, Ohordua, Uromi, Uzea, Ubiaja and Ugboha. Ebosele Godwin has produced part 1 of Esan language class that teaches the meaning of basic things and activities in Esan La...
Nigerian Writer, Irenosen Okojie, Wins Top African Literary Prize Channels Television Updated July 27, 2020 Irenosen Okojie was born in Nigeria and moved to England aged eight. Nigerian author, Irenosen Okojie, has won the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for African writing. The Caine Prize is one of the most prestigious literary prizes on the continent and is awarded to a short fictional story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere. Another Nigerian writer, Lesley Nneka Arimah, won the 2019 edition. Irenosen, whose debut novel Butterfly Fish won a Betty Trask Award, clinched the £10,000 award Caine prize for her short story Grace Jones , following an impersonator of the singer as she mourns the death of her family in a house fire. Caine prize chair of judges and director of The Africa Centre, Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp, said that the journey of Okojie’s main protagonist Sidra, a young woman who has moved to London f...
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