Many people outside Anambra have
failed to understand the ways of a successful Anambra man be he in academia or
business world. The display of cranial or pocket content is not an offence or
arrogance in Anambra.
We, from Anambra, are naturally
proud and would want to show it. Of what use is it if we have it and don’t show
it? Did Zik spare his debate opponents? The recently released music album,
"Ịmakwa onye ị wụ?" by Flavour
summarises who we are.
Those who passed through University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) would
easily understand the beauty of intellectual arrogance. Professors walked and
talked like giants. The ones I met at UNN spoke fire and sounded believable and
many of their successors still do. They profess what they know and don’t bottle
up their lion brains in sheep’s appearance.
A quick check on Soludo’s
disposition against that of late Dr.
Chuba Okadigbo of Political Science Department and former senate president,
Prof. Ofomata of Geography Dept etc. will validate my thesis. They are
intellectual immortals. They know it and would want you to know that they know
it.
Anambra intellectual big men have
their cousins outside Igbo tribe. Where is humility in Prof Soyinka? How do you
see Prof Jega?
Successful Anambra people are
effusive and genuinely ready to show you what they have in such a way as to ask
you “Ịmakwa onye ị wụ?" meaning “do you know who you are?” which is a
charge to display what you have got that makes you thick.
Soludo is not tall or
particularly handsome. He has no cash or considered wealthy by Anambra
standards. He has got a genius in his cranial membrane and he has found a way
to showcase it in line with our way of life so that when you ask him "ịmakwa
onye ị wụ?" he would show you his wealth of knowledge.
He can’t be a lion in the head
and walk or talk as a lamb. He is not a priest or a monk. He is a politician.
He is from Anambra.
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