Recently, through genetic testing, I've found out that my face cannot tell you what I truly am.  I took a DNA test and the results were that my origin is 82 percent West African, 10 percent uncertain North American origin, and 8 percent British Isles.  I haven't processed this knowledge.  I'm not dark.  I'm not light.  I don't have many "African" features except for the butt and the hair.  There are some genetic traits such as sickle cell gene and my reaction to dairy products as something toxic.  But other than that, in the phenotypic sense, I'm a creation of…

Why do Igbo people go to ask? Ihe ekwo aju  PATRICK IROEGBU*[1] Alberta, Canada This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   Monday, March 27, 2006  Introduction When people are faced with a severe condition of life such as illness, social, economic, and political problem, including accident, untimely death, un-employment, robbery, inability to marry, inability to stay in marriage, or work, non-progress in career or school, infertility, bad luck, loss of wealth or money or trading capital, and non-patronage in business, the concerned persons will develop angst, trauma, fear, and diminished psychological momentum and empowerment to cope with their situation. They will do something about it by…

Igbo Modes Of Mobilizing Extrahuman Forces To Respond To Illness And Problems In Society - Iga N’ajuju (Part 3)  PATRICK IROEGBU Alberta, Canada  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   Monday, February 6, 2006  Both parts one and two of this presentation have outlined the definition and meaning of divination in the light of cultural device to manage episodes of illness in kinship based systems of society organization and relationships. Mirror divination is specifically elaborated to illustrate the sense of endogenous skills and creativity in a changing traditionism and modernism. This part three will take up two more modes of divination to establish the fact that…

Knowledge of Herbal Resources and Development of Practitioners in Nigerian Society (Part   2)  PATRICK IROEGBU Alberta, Canada This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   Monday, March 6, 2006  Part one of this article explained the context under which healers are perceived and labeled in the biomedical healthcare domain of the so-called westernized modern society. It showed that education of healers is a fundamental development right that must be carefully woven around the cultural context and competency of the practitioners and their lives. It also pointed out that the problem of health diversity and indigenous knowledge which has been gaining attention since 1978 has not reached the…

Igbo Modes Of Mobilizing Extrahuman Forces To Respond To Illness And Problems In Society - Iga N’ajuju (Part 1)  PATRICK IROEGBU* Alberta, Canada  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   Monday, January 23, 2006   Nobody Wants to Write in this Area; Why?  I  have had a long standing interest in exploring African medical systems. As such, I introduce to you a course in African medicine and the perspectives of its practitioners. I am calling this course “Igbo Medicine” (IGBOMED 101). This way, I anticipate that readers will gain insights and stand up for Igbo medical heritage – therefore align it with vision in a changing…

            “We had been out in the fields all day.  Working.  Not saying a word just working.  Picking that cotton, man.  It’s almost like that traumatized me more than Korea.  Seems like my whole body remembers, you know, the movements of picking that goddamn cotton.”  Mr. Graham went on with his story. “All a sudden there was a boom and then came a long drawn out scream like it came from inside some animal.  I ran in the direction of both of ‘em.  There was mah lil cousin.  On fire!  We tried to put him…

Shadow people, all of the humanity has either been removed or war really never there.  Never developed.  Never nurtured.  Never guided into the beginnings of actualization.  Only the shadow of what might be a person, remains.  Mastering the art of daylight.  I can stand the light.  I am still immune to each day's sounds. Surrender?  To what?  Nothingness.  Oblivion was the sweetest of verbs, the most welcome state of being.  No feelings means no joy and no pain.  The trade is so simple.  Whether it be ten dollars, one hundred dollars, a blow job, a life, a home, a car…

Institute for Scientific Culture, ISC, Los Angeles, California USA We live in a world where we are faced with a barrage of ideas, each asking for us to embrace it for it sells itself as good for us. Black folks are particularly prone to been misled by competing ideas on culture. African Americans were separated from their African cultures and prevented from learning the culture of their slave masters. They were left hanging in the air. Since human beings are culture making animals, they used scraps of information they learned about their white masters' culture and what they remembered about…

I went down home in 1970. It was the year I turned four. I wasn't the only one traveled with them that night. My cousins who lived next door went too. Like so many other Black folks of that time had learned to do we left the house late at night (or early in the morning depending on your view) after the chicken had been fried and wrapped in foil, after the drinks had been placed in a cooler, after I had been awakened from the sleep they made me take at around four p.m., and after everyone had made…