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Download Philip Bolu ft The Soundchefs – Chukwu Okike (Official Video) Mp3, Mp4 Chukwu Okike is a song that came by the Holy Ghost into the heart of Minister Philip Bolu, recorded with his music crew ( _The Soundchefs_ ), it promises to bless you and as you listen and worship, miracles, signs and wonders begins to manifest all around you. GET THE AUDIO HERE Official Lyric (Chorus 2x) Chukwu…

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it was more because of the little blush on her face that I though that haha 😅 sorry!

Ohhh okik I see. My bad 😅

I thought the little blush would be cute. In another au I had I made a little sister for Gangle and I gave her that blush so I thought it would be cute to use it for little Gangle here.

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Chinua Achebe at his house in Enugu, Nigeria. 1959

He is one of Africa's most acclaimed authors and considered by some to be the father of modern African literature. His early novels, including the groundbreaking Things Fall Apart (1958) and No Longer at Ease (1960), describe poignantly the effects of Euröpean colonialism on Igbo society, Nigeria, and newly independent African nations.

He taught at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (1976-81), and was founding editor (1971) of the influential journal Okike. Achebe returned to the novel form with Anthills of the Savannah (1987). He has also written numerous short stories, children's books, and a book of essays, Home and Exile (2000), reflecting on his and his nation's coming of age.

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JO.J.N. Professor Achebe, do you have any grouse with the new evolving criticism in Nigerian literary circles which insists that art must be in the service of the Social Revolution, must be ideologically committed, that is. Considering that you had once condemned "art for art's sake" for the African creative writer, is this recent critical temper an extension of what you had always meant or a distortion of it?

ACHEBE It is a distortion! I think that what we have now is one form of extremism meant to counter an earlier extremism. I think it was an extremism to talk of "art for art's sake," which is simply to say that even if the world was falling into ruin the artist should be carving his little piece of ivory, as Jane Austen would say. Certainly this kind of position is false because it is extreme. An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question. Often an artist will find himself dancing to a different beat. A black American writer once wrote a very good novel called A Different Drummer, showing that the artist is always drumming differently. Now if you criticize or condemn the extremism of the bourgeois society, which is satisfied to free art from social responsibility, and then move right across the spectrum to the other end, or with the pendulum to the other extreme, and say that no art is possible unless it is committed to something you define, this is also a fallacy. This is the situation I think you are referring to. In other words, one makes a certain valid point and carries it to the extreme. At this point it becomes not just false, it also becomes dangerous. I think artists invariably rebel against that.

That is precisely why an artist will never get into any rigid association. Even if he is in such an association you will find him saying things that are quite strange for that association. Let us leave politics and look at religion, says the Catholic Church, which is a fairly rigid ideological, intellectual system. If you take a writer like Graham Greene, who is a converted Roman Catholic, you will observe that he is all the time writing about bad priests. That is what an artist does. If he were to behave in the way these ideologues are suggesting, he would only be writing about the perfect priest because he believes in the church, and therefore must uphold the dignity and authority of the church. But the real, genuine artist will not do it. In the same way, if he gets into a political association he will observe that real life is not as simple as the scheme of life drawn up in political manifestos. Almost always he will find himself reflecting this. Anybody who is surprised by this does not know what an artist is or what his true function should be.

JO.J.N. I had to raise the question because anyone attending our literary conferences will observe an evolving coterie of critics who will insist with vehemence that every work be ideologically committed. Works that fall short of their criteria are immediately hammered and battered, sometimes with a somewhat caustic language.

ACHEBE I know what you're talking about and where the people you're talking about are. Some of them are quite vocal and quite active. They don't worry me because I don't thirik they have anything of importance for me. But I am worried in another sense because there are people who may be misled. I think it is a fad, a fashion which will pass. It enjoys some stronghold in certain universities in the country and it sounds glamorous and full of fire but in the end it is sterile. What worries me is that some writers may be misled. I will give you one example. There was one short story written by Kole Omotoso which I once published in Okike. That was not a good story. I published it because it was an example of a story written satisfy this new dogma. And Kole Omotoso, being within easy range of the pronouncements of this dogma, had begun to write to their prescriptions. This short story is a very good example of what can happen to a writer when he simplifies his vision in an effort to satisfy the one, two, three requirements of a rather narrow-minded dogmatic group. So all he can write is about women rising up against their oppressor who is a monster and this monster is described as somebody with a skin disease, some mysterious person, and in the end he is murdered by these women who are seeking their freedom. Now that's no story. I rather suspect that Omotoso could have done a much better story if he was not attempting to use this particular story to demonstrate the idea of liberation, the idea of the wicked oppressor. I will say that the writer who wants to deal with this kind of situation will see many more sides to the oppressor than this. Indeed he will not be doing justice to his vision as an artist if he eliminates certain perspectives of the person in order to create something that will satisfy a rigid orthodoxy.

J.OJ.N. Unoka, Okonkwo, Isaac Nwoye Okonkwo and Obi Okonkwo--offshoots of the same genealogical tree--are failures in their various degrees. Is their systematic non-success a reflection of an aspect of Igbo world view on family inheritance or anything of the sort?

ACHEBE We had been talking about poetics … I mean this is one area where you certainly can make your suggestions (chuckles). I wasn't thinking about that. No. No, I wasn't thinking of that. Although, mark you, the cyclic idea, the cyclic metaphor in Igbo thought is never very far from one's mind if one is reared in the Igbo culture. The cyclic thought is that if something happened before it will happen again; if one dies, one will return. If there's reincarnation and the grandfather comes back in the grandson, then you're likely to have certain events also, certain tendencies happening again and again. The world is not linear in the sense of wandering away in a straight trajectory; it is cyclic. Certainly such an interpretation in the works is possible, but really I wasn't consciously attempting to draw attention to that particular view of the world. However, it's something I'm aware of, something which may have come up subconsciously, if you like, in one's consideration of our history, of our events. But now I thought you were going to ask about my insisting that we as a nation fail! I've heard some people now say that I am responsible for our lack of success because I've always written about people who failed. Of all the superficial comments that one can make of literature I think that one is one of the most startling. It is saying that if you have heroes who are unsuccessful, then you are saying that there is no hope for the rest of us, that we are bound to that failure. And as I said this is a new direction of criticism, and I've encountered it quite often lately. A reverend, somebody from the North, I think from Abu ja… Kuka, yes, Kuka is his name, has recently asserted that we are responsible for not giving Nigeria heroes (chuckles). What a childish way to read a work of literature! What these critics are saying is that if I show you a tragedy, you're compelled immediately to repeat that tragedy. That's nonsense. If anything, if there were any kind of direct relationship in that way--I wish there were--if there were, then what it should really be doing is to caution you… yes, to warn you away from that tragedy. I don't see why it should lead you into it with your eyes wide open, opened by my cautionary tale. So even on the basis of fairly simple straightforward logic I don't think the inference holds.

But there is a deeper psychological level at which it is absolute nonsense. If you go into the nature of reading and readers' response, which more and more people are now relating to psychoanalysis, you'll find that a lot of benefit can accrue to a perceptive reader from his reading somebody else's tragedy. Definitely some reformation of a kind can take place in one as a result of that experience. It's a kind of short-cut away from that experience in real life. The book makes it quicker and less painful and less time-consuming because one can go through a book in a period of days or even hours if one is a fast reader. On the other hand, a person who is left to encounter a similar experience in everyday life may require the rest of his life to be able to do so without, perhaps, having the opportunity to amend his life. So I think even that kind of criticism is really too naive for us to use.

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❤ "MY CULTURE IS MY IDENTITY" ❤

With tears of joy rolling down my face, I give reverence to Chukwu Okike Abiama (Almighty God) who encoded an Ancestral Ordinance (Ezenwanyi) in my DNA from birth to raise the vibrational energy of my heritage with honor, pride and integrity globally; holding up the torch of my destiny for World Peace. With gratitude, my voice has excel to this height of recognition from my roots. I bow down my head with my songs of redemption "WIND OF DESTINY" for thanksgiving. To God be the glory! https://youtu.be/UIIDm7sGj74?si=9b6bhGKOtg_8ndAu

Special appreciation to the Executive President, Chief Lynda Friday Chukwudumebi and to all the Executive Board of Directors of Great Ada Igbo Forum Worldwide for seeing me worthy of this level of responsibility as the Grand Matriarch. Long Live Umu Chukwu Okike Abiama. Long Live Africa 🌍

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Thank You Chukwu Okike 🙏🏿

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We shall not allow Uzodinma to take over Orji community for RUGA – IPOB vows

The Indigenous People of Biafra’, IPOB, vowed Sunday, that it would not allow Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State to take over some portions of Orji and Amata communities at waterside, Owerri, for creation of Fulani settlement, (aka RUGA). Making the vow through her spokesperson, Emma Powerful, IPOB warned, ” It’s important that Ndigbo should never allow Hope Uzodinma’s selfish political interest and desperate second term ambition to mortgage the security and safety of the entire Igbo Land. “To that effect the global family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), ably led by our prophet and indefatigable liberator Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu Kanu, condemns the harassment and intimidation of Orji community and Amata community waterside the murderous Hope Uzodinma and his stooge Commissioner of Lands Survey and Physical Planning in Imo State, Mr. Nobel Abiaso Atulegwu in the bid to forcefully take their ancestorial lands. “The information at our disposal shows that this murderous and Fulani stooge government in Imo State took over some portions of Orji community and Amata community waterside lands in the guise of Industrial Estate but in reality it is for Fulani terrorists masquerading as herdsmen. “Hope Uzodinma and his criminal Commissioner for Lands survey and Physical Planning are doing the bidding of those who imposed them on Imo State to create insecurity so that the terrorist will have a settlement in Imo State. “Remember, terrorists don’t thrive in a peaceful and organized society. The Imo government is a stooge for the Fulanization agenda in the Eastern Region. Remember that the Imo vampire sponsored some misguided Imo citizens to Hajj in Mecca this year, which they published on social media. In order to prove his success with the Fulanization agenda, those misguided and reprobates published viral videos in their Hajj attires thanking Hope Uzodinma for sponsoring them. But Chukwu Okike disgraced them by one of them being ejected and arrested from the same venue. That is what happens to people who sabotage their own people. Access reaching further “IPOB is not against any religion, but we will resist any form of political, religious, and ethnic conquest in whatever disguise our enemies present it. Imo State administrator and his embecillic government can’t take over any community land and hand it over to foreign invaders. It is not only stupid but damnable to the future generations of Ndigbo, therefore will not be tolerated. “Hopeless Uzodinjo and his gang of government tugs should know that Imo State is not his father’s estate, so he can not decide to use any part of Imo land to lobby for his selfish political ambition. “No inch of Alaigbo will be taken over by anybody and hand over to Fulani invaders who have taken over Hausa Lands and desperately killed them and displaced the Middle Belt people of Nigeria. IPOB will never allow any of such pretentious land grabbing and conquest to stand in Biafra Land,” IPOB warned. “We call on people of Orji and Amata, Owerri communities both home and abroad to stand up and resist Hope Uzodinma and his Commissioner who are under pressure to relinquish their community land for any fake Industrial Estate or prepare to fight future wars with the terrorists. Hope Uzodinma government’s use of the instrumentality of force to grab community lands for his Fulani political masters has met a brick wall. “Therefore, we tell Fulani groups hiding behind the Hope’s government to take over Orji community land that they have failed. If they have made any financial engagements with Hope Uzodinma’s government, they should go back and ask for their money. A leopard never changes its spot. He is a professional scammer and will continue to be that all his life. If they go ahead to occupy Orji Community ancestorial land, ESN will displace them. “Hope Uzodinma and his Commissioner for Lands’ game to mortgage Imo State for their selfish political interest to Fulani in the Eastern region is dead on arrival. IPOB will never allow any RUGA settlement anywhere in the Eastern Region,” IPOB further warned. Read the full article

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The Praise Of A Naturist

I’m too cautious about ignoring your Laws And Principles Of Life, and my restraint in expressing them never implied unopinionated or disregard for the lessons you, NATURE, have taught me, for one can never hide your Glory. I do not call you OKIKE merely on your ability to create and recreate, for your ability to destroy has shown me how much you love me to have preserved me to this day.…

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Voyager Lawyers ‘Surprised’ Binance.US Canceled $1B Deal

“The debtors have been in constant contact and communication with Binance.US and as lately as this past Friday, Binance.US had expressed the desire to close the transaction as soon as possible,” Christine Okike of law firm Kirkland & Ellis, representing Voyager, told a bankruptcy court in the Southern District Court of New York, adding that “the debtors reserve all rights against Binance.US for…

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A data-driven duo just raised about $350 million to fund early-stage startups with metrics • TechCrunch

A data-driven duo just raised about $350 million to fund early-stage startups with metrics • TechCrunch

Nnamdi Okike and Aaron Holiday trust the pattern match type data that most VCs swear by. This is not surprising, given their origins. Before launching their venture capital firm, 645 Ventures, in 2014, Okike was a director at data-driven investing giant Insight Partners. Meanwhile, Holiday, who came directly from DFJ Gotham Ventures, was previously a software engineer at Goldman Sachs. Of course,…

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A data-driven duo just raised roughly $350M to fund seed-stage startups with metrics

A data-driven duo just raised roughly $350M to fund seed-stage startups with metrics

Nnamdi Okike and Aaron Holiday trust data over the kind of pattern matching that most VCs swear by. It’s not surprising, given their backgrounds. Before launching their venture firm, 645 Ventures, in 2014, Okike was a principal with the data-driven investment giant Insight Partners. Meanwhile Holiday, who came directly from DFJ Gotham Ventures, was previously a software engineer at Goldman…