TITLE:
The Dictum, Igbo Enwe Eze (Igbo Has No King): Socio-Cultural Underpinnings for Understanding the Current Igbo Peoples’ Political Dilemma
AUTHORS:
Michael Onyedika Nwalutu
KEYWORDS:
Igbo, King, Axiom, Dilemma, Eze, Politics, Culture
JOURNAL NAME:
Sociology Mind,
Vol.9 No.1,
December
4,
2018
ABSTRACT: This piece examines the Igbo as a nation of many indigenous egalitarian societies and critically, albeit succinctly reviews contributions of renowned scholars, historians, and socio-cultural custodians, from historical and socio-political perspectives, and within the context of colonization; in order to tease out the cardinal cultural pillars upon which the Igbo enwe eze aphorism is anchored. This submission is critical to the understanding of Igbo as a people and how colonization and neo-colonial vestiges had corroded (and therefore weakened) and continues to erode the cultural norms, values and mores that are pivotal to the peoples’ socio-cultural epistemic saliencies (lived experiences). The submission foregrounds the current “weakness” in the Igbo peoples’ political dynamics in Nigeria or elsewhere in the world, in the denotation of the esoteric usage, Igbo enwe eze.