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It’s an open secret that nobody can undo the past, but history can be used as a reference point to mould the future we all desire. Like the monsoon wind is accompanied with precipitation changes, so have we been unpredictably affected by the effects of the civil war. We lost trust in ourselves and everyone became a suspect to his brother’s down fall.
Families were separated, homes shattered, love lost, and trust became the last name to be mentioned among the Igbo race.
Today, a section of the Igbo race feel they are superior to another while the other have been forced to accept such fate as a gesture of goodwill towards a peaceful coexistence. If today was your last day on earth, what do you think you would earnestly desire to set right? With their last blood during the war, our people fought for what they believe in, they fought for the emancipation of the Igbo race, but they fail to understand that we only need a mental emancipation. Men and women died for what they believed, and some died as a collateral damage to the fate of the war. We are survivors, we are mentally strong, we are extremely intelligent, and we are numerically stable, but we only need a united front.
Our mourning period is gone, joy has come to stay. Our darkness is gone, light has come to stay. A new day has come, a day with a ray of hope, shining through the cloud like the multi-coloured arc in the sky. The worst has come and gone, now the world beckons to see what may be of our race. We have over the years been known for our mental strength and ability to rise in the face of obscurity. Is this hype real or could we consider it a trait in every Igbo heart? Wherever you may find yourself around the world, so long as you feel the Igbo blood in you, we implore you to join the new Igbo world, and show a sense of belonging to your root.
This is a community where the errors of our fathers do not resurface themselves in our lives, a new community where all men and women are seen as equals, a community where education,
entrepreneurship, industrialisation and commercialisation are the hallmarks of the day. We are the children from the east, the land where light shines at the slight sight of hope, we are children of the Ala-Igbo.
