The Untold Story of the Osu caste System | Ogechukwu Maduagwu. | TEDxAbakaliki 

This is one country

@@salmaabdullahgb caste systems exist all over africa.

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It is slightly different from the white man's version of slavery. Their generations are cursed and branded and most igbos cannot marry an Osu because they carry the names till this day.

😅 Very different, one was global and still destroying people, communities and countries

Exactitude

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Amen. Thank you

Amen. thank you

The most important thing at this time is to ensure you and your baby is safe. do not think about the marriage at the moment ok

Please contact Joseph Okechukwu

Can I be the father of the baby?

I’m VERY serious.

My solidarity and love. You're welcome comforted.

I am only just learning of this but I believe the answer is the Igbo.

@@MaryLou913 yeah it was the igbos

Caste system is not endemic to India. Multiple African tribes as well as middle eastern countries practice one

@@uncletheoneshotkid3001 but not all african tribes practised caste system or slavery one thing i have noticed is a lot of people who practise religions where they believe in more than one god have this problems.

@@shanewalkingdead8258 true but not necessarily with slavery. Islam and Christianity were both known to be religions that slavers followed and they’re both monotheistic.

@JustPM does that comment even make sense to you? you’re still blaming the entire continent for the enslavement if it’s own people, when in reality it was between a few kong’s and commoners?

@JustPM they’re literally stating that people were sold within the continent. the descendants of those slaves still consider themselves africans today. but yet you’re blaming them? please make it make sense.

@JustPM btw africa is a continent. nigeria is a country and this lady is speaking on a particular tribe within that country. the whole continent is not cursed, but many are still healing from the terrible effects of colonization

@Onyeka Onyebuchukwu We Africans don't see each other as one ethnicity just because we share skin colour, we are more nuanced than that. Africans enslaving africans is a ridiculous attempt at oversimplification that can easily be dismissed. The same way people don't say Europeans enslaving other Europeans, why would they, they get specific. They talk about the Vikings enslaving others who were not one of them, they talk about Roman's enslaving non Roman's, Greeks enslaving non Greeks, should I go on... All those groups are Europeans enslaving each other but people make sure to distinguish between rival and ethnic groups, but when it comes to Africa ethnicity just falls away and we become some homogenous ethnic group that never existed. If you are going to use such broad terminology be consistent with it. Talk about Europeans enslaving other Europeans, Africans enslaving other Africans, and Asians enslaving other Asians. Don't just use such terminology to make it specific to one continent. I have no hatred for my fellow africans but there is no harm in me recognizing that my ethnic group is distinct from other African ethnic groups, it's how our ancestors identified themselves and it's how we still identify ourselves for the most part.

I had an African American friend who was so mad with Africans in America because we sold their parents as slaves. The Osus were sold to Europeans and rich Diala alike. Onyeka is right. This is what these people feel towards us. And to think that we blacks are fighting everyday to be treated fairly as Whites but we still discriminate against our own people is disheartening and makes me sick to my stomach!

Ala is not a deity, it's a representative of the Creator because ala is everywhere on earth

There’s proof. Read your history. It happened in the past and a white woman who came to preach fought it and helped abolish it in one part of Igbo land

@@debby5026 lol there is no proof of the killing of twins in Igboland....even the earlier British that came to Igboland never wrote about these

Why should they marry themselves

@@Rebelle07 Exactly what I said. We don't know the things in their lineage. They should marry themselves cos they understand it instead of forcing themselves on others who don't know. I HV seen a young girl manifest the called agwu the osus carry and I can't advice any freeborn to marry them.

@@Rebelle07 I think there's blood shed in their lineage,the girl came to visit her uncle who was my friend's husband and I came on a training to process my documents and had to stay the night ,a minor argument over phone broke out and she flared up for no reason. It was shocking cos what I saw she destroyed things from 8pm -3:30 am terrorized us with a knife , we kept running from her for our dear lives cos she said all night she was going to kill someone. She was so violent. It was the next day someone who knew that told me she was an OSU , from the place she came from it was verified they lived there. It was one scary day. I had no sleep from 8pm -3:30 am next day.

It's unwise for you to comfortably say this, have you forgotten that the so-called Dialla where also dedicated, and I have seen them manifest too. The ogbanje you know today , are they not dialla among them?

@@peterchijioke5263 Doesn’t it surprise u ogbanje doesn’t exist today but osu still does. Ogbanje has nothing to do with lineage just mere beliefs outdated . Osu people say they are special so shouldn’t they continue their specialty by marrying themselves and leaving free borns alone?. They should be the ones avoiding free borns since they say they re special. I still maintain that no free born should marry them. They are cruel fetish beings.

How?

@Daniel Okeke And so called "slavery" was abolished in the United States in 1865 but it is still going on today. "do research"

Dee Jay Tell them the truth.

@Daniel Okeke people still practice it though

what does this have to do with ruling Nigeria?

@@didiloki5089 it is called karma. I am Igbo but I can 100% believe what he is saying. Abolishing somebody to rule and you want to rule, do you think God is mocked? Karma would surely visit we should stop deceiving ourselves.

Maybe you haven’t married? Once you’re ready to marry your village people will come.

@@cfoxy3 how will they know? Let's say a person was dedicated to a god back in 1750? Before writing. How would this have been passed down? That so and so, became an osu? Also corruption. If a man is osu and has money. Then what? I'd bet that an arrangement would be made. If the village likes the guy or girl they probably ignore the osu BS.

It's very predominant in Imo State, some villages have abolished it but most villages are yet to do that.

​@@preciousopara3264 you are right. I'm from Owerri, Imo state and my parents told me (when I was old enough) that we're Osu. They said when we're about to get married, they usually go to trace the family to ensure they're also Osu. This is weird because my parents are devout Catholics. But this caste system is still very prevalent. Except one marries from a different ethnic group then no one worries about caste.

it is predominant in Imo state

The principles of your ancestors which was the "order of the day" can never be wrong or worth evolving? In the day of the 4th industrial revolution when Igbo as much as any other community needs to marshal its human and collective resources to address problems and advance Igboland, Nigeria and the rest of humanity ahead you're talking about permutations of practice. Well your political leaders (Zik and co) illegalized Osu, your traditional rulers including Eze Nri abolished it culturally/spiritually, and Igbo catholic bishops abolished it as practice as well. Igbos are probably 90% catholic and somehow we have this supremely backward tradition in some corners. Meanwhile the same "cursed" Osu are doctors, lawyers and some even leading Nigerian figures in Nigeria and abroad. Get serious about serious things my friend.

Ahhh no

Only people who had polyethestic religions (mean believed in more than one god ) are the people who safered the most from slavery and cast system.

@@shanewalkingdead8258 Ahhh, yes. Sorry to burst your bubble! 😄👍

@@shanewalkingdead8258 No, whether it may be polytheistic or monotheistic makes no difference. There are actually Muslim and Christian societies in some countries today that practice caste systems too, lol. 🤣

​@Oh Lawd this is untrue. Which society curses a generation unborn for the sins or class of their forefathers?

How?

LOL, everybody just ignored you😅BLANK!

please enlighten me. i have seen videos here in UK that claimed it has been abolished.

This is not about Nigeria. it is about us as ethnic Igbo people. I am an Igbo from Oba, Anambra state. Osu existed in my town, something that I hated with passion and more so when started living here in the western world. I do recall when our igwe and elders of my town outlawed this abominable practice. I have went home couple of times and haven’t asked how the town had fared since the abolition. I will find out soon enough from my kinfolks whether the practice still exists. thank you for pointing out that anyone can put some videos alledging that it has been done away with.

@ptonchick10 Thank you

@Daniel Okeke but ptonchick10 said that in IMO STATE it is still practiced tho...

Even if it has been abolished, many still act on it... Refusing marriages because they believe one came from a family that was labeled "osu"