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I love how this movie highlights traditional Nigerian(Biafran)customs and spirituality.
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I am a Nollywood movie follower. A lot of the movies I wouldn’t post here, but this one I thought may be ok.
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You can always expect nollywood to misrepresent and demonize “Negro” customs and spirituality. I will look at it to see if the pattern persists
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I know. This one may even do so to some extent unfortunately depends on how you look at it. If you watch it, let me know what you think.
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the movie is wholly demonization. it is based off the false british propaganda of “osu caste system” which started gaining popularity after chinua achebe’s things fall apart where they falsely claim that osu means outcast. osus were just people set apart for “priestly” duties. for example, among the agikuyu, there is a clan known as akiuru/ethaga of which i’m part of. akiuru similarly performed priestly duties and are set apart therefore they didn’t marry into other clans but nowadays you’ll hear christianized kikuyus calling akiuru “witches”, “wizards” and such like things. if you look at this dictionar https://archive.org/details/englishibofrench00holy/page/184/mode/2up published 1904 which is 3 years after british military invasion of arochukwu, you’ll see that the igbo translation the missionaries gave for outcast is not osu but onye-ajulu-aju meaning “one who is rejected”. the fact that they even had to translate a phrase to make something close in meaning shows that the concept of outcast itself did not exist in the language
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Wow that is a very detailed interpretation of the movie. so when the BRUTish were butting their nosey noses into the customs of the Igbo, when they noticed those who were set apart for ‘priestly’ duties why would they find it necessary to call them outcasts. When I watched the movie, what I understood was that the group of ppl who were considered ‘rejects’ had done something ‘bad’ in another village and were ostracized from that village to the one that is highlighted in the movie. Also, are the akiuru/ethaga like that group who wears all white and has their heads covered?
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it is those priests who were making it difficult for them to spread their christinsanity in biafra so they resorted to military invasion of the great shrine at arochukwu to destroy it physically in 1901. after that they embarked on an extensive demonization campaign against them calling them outcasts and even going as far as ridiculously claiming they were responsible for the european atlantic slave trade.. this especially was fueled by the synergy between “abolition” and christianization of previously slave raided nations taht refused to be mohammedanized. the akiuru/ethaga don’t have any special dress for identification, it is just a social system. i think the people you are talking about are akorino who practise a syncretised religion, that is , part indigenous part christianity like you have in the carribean with religions like santeria
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So basically, the Islamists and the Christian missionaries who made it difficult for them to spread their religions in those regions would tell the converted people that the ‘osu’ were outcasts. It wasnt necessarily the ‘locals’ who came up with these labels, but the meddling wazungu who caused them to be called ‘rejects.’ Also, if the outcasts were made ‘free’ were they still considered ‘priestly?’
Yes, the akorino that’s what they are called. I thought it was makorino. Did you ever see on Citizen TV this akorino who lived in USA for most of his life, well he is some banker or financial analyst and he married an mzungu. My understanding is the akorino don’t allow anyone who is not akorino to marry another akorino, but there he was flaunting his homely white woman around Kenya and the comment section was supporting it only maybe a couple of Kenyans called out his actions. He was on Jeff Koinange like last year. Nisamehe, nafuata sana habari za mkenya.-
Those “freeing” them are the converts. It’s just like the way the mohammedans would tell them that they are raiding and enslaving them because they didn’t follow their religion and that they had to convert to be set “free”. So if they’re set “free”, it usually means conversion
I never saw that mukorino. I hear nowadays, that the men are even wearing hats instead of the turban and women made the long skirts tighter to be “hip” with the times. I’m not surprised considering christianity is a portion of their religion. It’s all confusion-
So I take it you didn’t like the movie. Another thing, was how the main character, the prince he was talking down about Igbo utamaduni as being ‘backwards’ and ‘not with the times.’ Did you catch that too?
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Yes I did but that’s just the small more obvious parts here and there. The main arsenal lies in the subtle general plot of the whole movie.
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in the movie, if you heard, they referred to them as umuapata osu. the movie is a work of fiction therefore they created a backstory around it but the idea is still tied to “osu caste system”. there’s even a scene of the “igwe” abolishing umuapata and “declaring” them to be “free” which is akin to things you’ll see in nigeria today of folk “banishing” osu or “casting and binding” their ancestors
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Good , on point comments here about the negative depictions of West Afrikan traditions.
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