The Search for the Head of Igbo
“Ozoemena Nsugbe, Aguleri bu isi Igbo...” The Search for the Head of Igbo “Ozoemena
The trail led her to Aguleri, a town clinging to the banks of the Omabala River. The elders at the palace of the Eze did not want to talk. But an old dibia (native doctor) named Okonkwo agreed to meet her under a silk-cotton tree. The Search for the Head of Igbo “Ozoemena
Nneka felt a chill. The song wasn’t just music. It was a political manifesto encoded in melody. The Search for the Head of Igbo “Ozoemena
The dibia smiled. “Because your father is Ozoemena’s great-great-grandson. And the last line of the song says, ‘Nwoke a na-efu efu ga-alọta’ —The lost man shall return.”