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Feb 3, 2019, 3:05 PM

Igbo Speaks Out at the Jewish Africa Conference in New York

At this very well attended conference which took place from the 27th to the 29th of January, and which was organized by the American Sephardi Federation, and Mimouna Association, in New York I delivered a paper. One of the aims...

Dec 4, 2018, 9:21 AM

Chukwu, Igbos, and Omenana

After 1970, it seemed as if we, Igbos, were finished as a people. We were down but not out because we still had Omenana which Chukwu gave our ancestors at Mt Sinai. By 1978, many parts of Aba, Onitsha,...

Nov 25, 2018, 7:57 AM

Omenana slowly goes mainstream

What I have been studying and writing on for over two decades is beginning to gain traction. It was good to hear a British who has spent some time researching Igbo business, say, ‘well, when my master settled me….I...

Oct 23, 2018, 6:55 AM

Returning home to rebuild Igbo people and family

My Igbo people are a resilient people, troubled continuously since the era of written history. We have been pushed, and have lurched into series of calamities. A group with a weaker culture would have died and become extinct. Igboland...

Sep 11, 2018, 8:31 AM

You cannot ban Osu with fiats, but with knowledge!

In recent times, a new fad has gripped many Igbo communities, and set fire to the imaginations of some Igbo individuals. Igbo clans have been ‘banning’ and ‘abolishing’ osu, ohu, and amadi lately. An individual has began to attract...

Sep 9, 2018, 8:28 AM

Ohaneze please rise to the challenge

In this essay which has to be brief I will try to illustrate how Omenana (Igbo culture) has been negated, and supplanted even when it is not a threat to the Nigerian state, because since colonization of Igbos by...

Jun 25, 2018, 8:38 PM

Igbo people and leaders

Igbos make a fundamental mistake in choosing their leaders. We look for a he or she that had been a governor, minister, senator, legislator, etc, and empower him or her further. But we do not check if that former...

Apr 8, 2018, 11:36 PM

Umu oji: Community which has celebrated biblical Pesach for thousands of years

An Igbo community called Umu oji just finished celebration of ‘Uzo Iyi’(way/road through sea/water). It was at this same clan that I saw my first Sukkot (‘ima ntu’). The name of the just concluded festival Uzo Iyi, tells us the...

Mar 31, 2018, 1:54 AM

Land with the highest number of Seders: Who wins?

For the next seven days, three lands will be competing for one honor. The three lands are Igbo-land, where the biggest Israelite Diaspora calls its homeland since it left Israel thousands of years ago. The second is Israel, the...

Mar 30, 2018, 9:19 AM

Igbo DNA, Israelite DNA

I had my DNA analysed in 2017. I used the services of the company called MyHeritage. When the reading arrived, they had what I knew they would have: clear evidence that Igbos once lived in the Land of Israel....

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About Me

Remy Ilona, is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Riverside, where he also functions as a teaching assistant. He is also the secretary-general of Hebrew-Igbo people, an Igbo socio-cultural organization. He is also an author of 10 books. He is of Ibo or Igbo extraction, and a lawyer by training, as well as a historian of the Ibo. He is among the leaders shepherding the Ibos re-emerging Judaism.