The ancestral
Staff
By
Odimegwu Onwumere
My
great grandfather was the Oji Ofo,
a
traditional title that is not contestable;
in
short, the Traditional Prime Minister.
Like
the biblical account says
that
God said that The Staff
shall
never go off King David's linage,
so
the Ofo – ancestral staff,
will
never go off my linage.
Aghast!
The
modern day
BORN
AGAIN CHRISTIANS
around
are
intimidating these title holders
in
the different villages and towns
and
are
destroying
the Ofo
and
other sacred divinities.
They
are destroying our cultural heritage,
in
guise of exorcising the land
of
demons and all that evil.
To
them,
they
see the DEMON and EVIL
to
be in our traditional practices,
but
the obverse is the case:
the
DEMON and EVIL are in the heart.
A
people their hearts are pure,
their
land will be pure,
but
a people their hearts are impure,
their
land will be impure.
The
demon is not in the Ofo,
but
how many of them know this?
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