tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22594865820798654672021-03-13T08:39:30.783-08:00The poetic, spiritual and mundane thoughts of a Nollywood filmmakerEmeka Amakezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.comBlogger150125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259486582079865467.post-30225615707294187942021-03-13T08:23:00.001-08:002021-03-13T08:39:29.906-08:00<div>https://youtu.be/SNaKTeAo29Y<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Purple Clouds is a movie about the pains and anguish of sickle cell told from the perspective of child carrier.<div><br></div><div>This emotional and highly educative movie is produced and directed by Emeka Amakeze&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The cast include&nbsp;</div><div>Nosa Babarex&nbsp;</div><div>Frankinsense Eche Ben&nbsp;</div><div>Chioma Amakeze&nbsp;</div><div>Ibiwari Etuk&nbsp;</div><div>Uchenna Nnolim&nbsp;</div><div>Oluchi Julius&nbsp;</div><div>Juliet Njemanze&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Emeka Amakezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259486582079865467.post-51949482215019439472020-05-26T23:45:00.001-07:002020-05-26T23:45:46.967-07:00Are you prepared for the worst?<br /><br /><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Rauvtu1tnMY" width="480"></iframe><br /><br />Emeka Amakeze, Xiolla John, Blessing Yandi and Uche Iheanyi star in this hilarious but educative short film that lends it voice to the awareness of the covid19 pandemic.<br /><br />Emeka Amakezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259486582079865467.post-91594680467849137622020-05-13T14:46:00.000-07:002020-05-13T14:46:07.677-07:00<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">All eyes on me but mine bore holes in you</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Sweetly swirling before my eyes<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Like gamblers follow their rolling dice<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Walking on air endless without a care<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">And like a moth's attraction to light<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">My day surrenders to your night<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Don't notice how green their envy is<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Bliss like no one can truly give<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Makes my heart beat in heave<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">All my doubts have disappeared<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Can only see your graceful allure<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Bewitching with the charm of azure<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Take you out of me and the magic is gone<o:p></o:p></span></p><br />Emeka Amakezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259486582079865467.post-36440777776760602112020-05-07T12:03:00.000-07:002020-05-07T12:03:26.557-07:00<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I sometimes let go of myself and savour the joy of my daydreams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The joy of knowing that things can only get better is always sweet.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Even though the angry and sharp pangs of today’s hunger bite bitterly,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I will never let go of the hope that my dreams will surely come true.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Empty pockets make one think that luxury pamper is a waste of money. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">But if I can’t buy all the things I want, let me afford the ones I need at least.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Let me accept that garri and rice are both starch instead of change of diet.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I will never let go of the hope that my dreams will surely come true.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I am definitely going to have the best woman in the world for a wife.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">She is going to be so tender, very caring and absolutely loving. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">That missing rib that is the bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I will never let go of the hope that my dreams will surely come true.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Though I lack spare shoes and the ones I have now are so worn out,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I have lived uncomfortably in the only clothes I have for many years. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Being at daggers drawn with my landlord over rent must surely stop!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I will never let go of the hope that my dreams will surely come true.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I am not lazy, but wouldn’t mind working with ease of mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Who’s not tired of working their fingers to the bones for peanuts?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Getting a little more than I can ever get in wages won’t kill me.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I will never let go of the hope that my dreams will surely come true.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I won’t be too greedy to ask for a skyscraper or something better.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">But if such are the cherries of my toil, I won’t reject them either.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">For a roof over my head keeps worries of wetness and shine away.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I will never let go of the hope that my dreams will surely come true.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I dream of a better tomorrow; to wipe away the bitter tears of today.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">God is really good must come to everybody’s mind when they see me.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">It is this hope that has kept me believing in those lovely dreams.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I will never let go of the hope that my dreams will surely come true.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />Emeka Amakezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259486582079865467.post-62658077822564028832020-05-02T14:02:00.000-07:002020-05-02T14:02:09.550-07:00<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I have been searching for another like you</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">But those words never cease to haunt me<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">One day you will wake up and not find me<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">You said those with tears in your eyes<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">They didn’t mean much to my uncaring soul<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">But with the grief of a child, I now remember<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I have wished for nothing else but what we had<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">But I heard you are now happily married<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I never knew there weren’t two of you out there<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Reaching out for you in others is now a mirage<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">How can I forget your tears when you said to me<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“I love you but you are hurting me”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Now I wish I could even say that to you<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">As long as I have you in my life<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">But sadly, I heard you’re now happily married<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">You gave me your all and I gave you nothing<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I now know it hurts not to be in love with you<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Just like others before her, she’s nothing like you<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I heard you are now very happy but I cry<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">A river of my tears flood the pillow we shared<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">How much pain did I cause you? I miserably ask myself<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Where was my selfish heart when tiny drops of hurt tears<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Ran a river down your heart and your love sailed away<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I heard he makes you very happy<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span>&nbsp;</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Sitting at a corner staring at the pieces of my heart<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Broken by those I thought were sexier than you<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">My pride is gone but heartache keeps me company<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I am sad but I heard your laughter now rings out<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Can’t believe I sacrificed all you had for me<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">On the alien altar of uncertain scarlet women<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">And now I am paying for my waywardness<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I just woke up and realized that you’re gone<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I heard you are now happy<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />Emeka Amakezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259486582079865467.post-72254361492011905922020-04-27T09:14:00.000-07:002020-04-27T09:38:37.057-07:00<br><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">There has been a lot of arguments over why a woman should invite her would be daughter in-law to the kitchen when she visits for the first time. Different people have their varying perspectives on the subject.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">However, I cannot help but remember some of the things my late grandmother told me as a kid as regards the kind of politics played in kitchen, and I realized why a mother would invite a ‘stranger’ in her kitchen. Though her era is gone and the dynamics of culture transmission have taken their toll on that aspect of our life as a people, kitchen politics has not completely changed.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As a kid, my grandmother made me understand that intrinsically, women did not invite their brides to be to the kitchen to test them. It was basically a huge sign of acceptance. There was absolutely nothing to test because she and her entire family had known almost every detail about a bride to be before she set foot in her would be husband‘s home. This used to be a standard marriage procedure in Igbo culture which was achieved via the practice of iju ese where families ask questions or perform divinations to gain insight into the worldview and practices of the families their sons or daughters would get related by marriage.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">She said that the politics of the kitchen was all about control.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Women rarely shared their kitchen with people they neither trusted nor liked and because their kitchen and its immediate surroundings was a no fly zone for men, it was one of the safest places for women to make or mar; the success or failure of a man or even an entire family can be decided in the kitchen. They did everything within their power to keep the men away from the kitchen.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Now, the acceptance of a daughter in-law to be in the form of bringing her to the kitchen transmutes to sessions of knowledge acquisition for the young girl which either improves on or reiterates what she has already learnt about the politics of the fireplace from her own mother. Such knowledge serves certain purposes such as.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br></div><ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0in;" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Reminding the bride to be that the women who effectively managed their kitchen were warriors who safeguarded their families. There were zero margins for error because if by error or mistake, an enemy gains access to the kitchen and poisons the food, an entire family is wiped out. They keenly watched what their families ate and made sure they had healthy and uncontaminated food. They forbade their children from eating from families and people who did not have healthy habits.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br></div><ol start="2" style="margin-top: 0in;" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Limiting the culinary knowledge of the man to the barest minimum and shaming him to shreds if he showed more than a passing interest in learning kitchen affairs even as a boy. They reported such a man who is interested in the kitchen to his fellow men that he was becoming effeminate and most definitely, they will join in shaming such a man as not fit to be among them. Failure to keep the man in check was tantamount to losing control.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The men would toil from dawn to dusk at their farms to provide the much needed food but the most loved hands were the ones that cooked the food in the kitchen and served. Children knew who fed them whenever they were hungry and nobody needed to ask where their loyalty anchored. Children can forgive you for taunting their father but only God can forgive you when you taunt their mothers? Imagine the pride of the man who is served food that was a little bigger and had more pieces of meat than the ones served the rest of his fellow men. The power that came from the man appreciating that food and the gesture against the background of his interaction with his fellow men would be evident when she needed a favour.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">My grandmother made me understand that the kitchen department was the only place the men dared not ask questions about how the money they provided for food was spent. The tough or brave ones who dared to ask for accounts got robust explanations and often ended up coughing out more money to pay off debts the wives owed imaginary ogiri and ukpaka sellers at the market. A woman could even save as much as she wanted.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For her, the sweat and heat of the fireplace was a little sacrifice they had to make, which was inconsequential compared to the power and control that came from managing the kitchen effectively.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">That was an era. It is now a new era. Times and tides have changed. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br></div><br>Emeka Amakezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259486582079865467.post-13119768286529512552020-04-26T05:50:00.000-07:002020-04-26T06:31:20.629-07:00<br><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 16.0pt;">My Village Shrine<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I placed my feet one after the other in movement<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Swirling red African dust settled on my feet<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">As I ate the distance between me and my destination<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The laterite road surrendered to a leafy pathway <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Noise of occasional passing cars and human chatter<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Lost to the quietude of this enigma of a forest<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Pulled forward by an invisible force of curiosity<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I moved further into the forest towards the stream<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">From where they say my village shrine reigned <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Even before the days of the father of my fathers'' father<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">And the deeper I went into the belly of the forest<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The more fearsome the trees grew to be. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The shrubs became phantoms by tricks of my mind<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">And the eerie silence became loudly menacing<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Running waters drummed to startle as I got near to it <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">And then, remembering the wisdom of the elders<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I liberated my voice to hoarse shouts of the mortals<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">That the water spirits would go in and grant me safe passage<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Between the water that gives life and the land of the African gods<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The journey ends for the mortal female except the few favoured by the gods <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">And even those initiated into the revered cult of priesthood. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Just as the secret of the owl shall never be made known to daylight<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">So is the shadowy ancient trail to the seat of my village shrine. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">My fathers'' father told me that I was initiated ahead of my mates <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">And so, I should not be afraid of a handshake with the gods<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I shook off the cobwebs of trepidation hanging all over me<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Looked around and in a leap of faith and courage</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Sailed across the stream and walked into the thick undergrowth</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Unnervingly evident that I was all by my curious self <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">It was a journey across the fabled playground of the gods<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I knew about them – revered messengers of the gods<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Right onto my path they sent chills down my spine<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I had come too far to tolerate thoughts of going back. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The apes considered me with fearsome judging eyes <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Found me worthy of an encounter with the abode of the gods<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Left me to my fate and continued on their tour of duty<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Cries of unusual birds I did not see bade me welcome<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I ventured yet nearer my destination. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Excitedly, I sallied forth into the last of the shrubs<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Before the sacred grotto but as nothing prepared me <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">For the extraordinary spectacle that beheld me, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I was bewitched and enthralled. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I cautiously moved my unwilling legs <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Towards the subject of my visit<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I sat down on a carved ancient wooden stool <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Right in front of the cave and picked a piece of white clay...<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Clay of the gods<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I crushed a little and applied on my eyes <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">With a gradual comprehension that <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I was really in the presence of a force <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Beyond my mortal understanding, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">My eyes grew accustomed to the darkness enveloping me <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">And I beheld it - my village shrine<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Emeka Amakeze</span></div><br>Emeka Amakezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259486582079865467.post-80092836763779977132020-04-24T04:00:00.001-07:002020-04-24T04:00:12.384-07:00<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">She leaned on my shoulders and never woke up again</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Her hot tears scalded me as they streamed down my back<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Lifelessly she hung by me and nobody else felt her pulse<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Couldn’t see her lips move but felt she had a bit to say<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">They argued and agreed she was as dead as a door nail<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I am here now and you can talk to me I whispered to her<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Her pains, fears and heartbreak took shapes before me<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Fought back my tears as my heart melted to her ordeals<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Urged her to agree with them that she was totally dead<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Lost to the world of everything else but the two of us<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Tiny warmth, strength of a woman within her heart<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Fanned into unquenchable embers of affectionate flames<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">By the words I sang into her ears and rubbed into her skin<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I told her she didn’t need to worry her pretty head off<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">She raised her head, looked me in the eyes and smiled at me<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I smiled, she smiled, we smiled and our hearts glowed<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">And her feelings and soul died to all that hurt her in the past<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Held her tenderly yet with arms so firm like no other<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">My strength and aura were the assurances she needed<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Kissed her and promised her that everything is alright<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">She never woke up to the fears that brought her to me<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><br /><br />Emeka AmakezeEmeka Amakezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259486582079865467.post-62603080417587733432020-04-23T03:06:00.001-07:002020-04-27T09:17:05.020-07:00She wants a beautiful wedding. He wants to cash out. But somebody must pay the huge price.<br /><br />Winning Edge is an exciting family drama that will keep you entertaining with lots of intrigues and suspense.<br /><br />Written, produced and directed by Emeka Amakeze<br /><br />Starring actors like<br /><br />Emma Ayalogu<br /><br />Tina Mba<br /><br />Emeka Amakeze<br /><br />Yvonne Jegede<br /><br />Justice Slik<br /><br />Jerry Williams<br /><br />Ernestina Chikere<br /><br />Ijeoma Nnanna<br /><br /><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/d10r4MqxWJk" width="480"></iframe>Emeka Amakezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259486582079865467.post-88291803993634222852020-04-22T12:55:00.000-07:002020-04-27T09:32:08.892-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">You’re the fairest of them all and they never cease to be awed as they laud and applaud the handiwork of God and none ever jawed you my love. Your beauty is not flawed because you’re not a fraud. I will fight and claw to make your path broad</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Because I’m your knight that always comes to your fight. You make me recite how much skin-tight my love fits to your heart. I will hold you through the night till our spirits are truly light with the delight we know how well to excite.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">You have been a dearest friend and you alone I will always send. I will bend even to break just to make amend to blend in your life my love. They can’t comprehend how much I depend on your trend because you don’t pretend.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">How long has it really been since my soul desires to be seen by you. I will trek even to Berlin to feel you addict me like caffeine because I’ve truly missed you and your Africa cuisine. I’m keen not to allow anybody come in between us my love<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I’m so proud you’re well-endowed and because you give me the happiness of a crowd, you make me scream aloud when you exude that appeal that puts me in the mood and I make you reach for the cloud. Your love feels like food to my soul<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">You’re aware I value you more than air because you’ve shown me how much you care by making me an heir and I feel like a billionaire in this love affair. I swear nobody out there will dare to compare with you my rare luminaire <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Never met any that’s half the woman you are and as I quaff of your love and because you’re not a diamond in the rough, you make me feel like a chief among my peers. You make me laugh even when times are tough and make me call bluff of those who think I should‘ve had enough<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Assuaging my fear with each passing year, you’ve made me appear drunk without a drop of beer and fearless like a brigadier. I will commandeer whatever you find so dear and make all your worries disappear and veer you away from every wear and tear.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I’m not in contest for your love because you’re the best thing that has ever happened to me. You’re my crest of affection and my chest can’t contain all your zest even if compressed. I’m blessed you’re mine and will stay away from all that you detest<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I will always have something to say about the way you make me sway and Cupid will first betray love before I delay to tell you how much I love you from day to day. I will whisk you to fantasy land straight away and never allow you to stray<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I still have something more to say my love<o:p></o:p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ixBD7NMWn-A/XqCgnwDUFlI/AAAAAAAADQ0/tynwJ5PI-sk06pAAWqwQMoW0aVzo2HnVACK4BGAsYHg/vlcsnap-2020-04-22-17h00m06s91.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ixBD7NMWn-A/XqCgnwDUFlI/AAAAAAAADQ0/tynwJ5PI-sk06pAAWqwQMoW0aVzo2HnVACK4BGAsYHg/s320/vlcsnap-2020-04-22-17h00m06s91.png" width="320" /></a></div>Emeka Amakezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259486582079865467.post-20653621221279304612020-04-22T12:12:00.003-07:002020-04-22T12:40:56.641-07:00<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Despite all our efforts, they still want us to disunite</div><br><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Our blood is their delight as my Nigeria they blight<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Bringing fight unwanted to force us to take to flight<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Unusual fright is in the land but there is none to indict<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">No light to brighten our paths for none there is the knight<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The peace promised is but a sleight of hand in our sight<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">For our plight is to vote that our wealth be their right<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Deafening disquiet of a once powerful home-land in delight<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The height of their insensitivity pushes us to self-ignite<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Our collective might as a people no more gives us respite<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Not with morale as tight as wood eaten inside by termite<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I recite our anthem and I realise that nothing is now alright<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Our name is bigger than Elephant but we're cowered like ant<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Is this the rite of passage for this giant of Africa spite?<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Smite this evil in our land that we shall once again be great<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">But how could this ever be if you and I don’t make it right<o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1075" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xmjGqaaDV9U/XqCWaHl5MrI/AAAAAAAADQg/36oXcI6ArMUTYo7P6BEtnox2lpu0EVcJQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/DSC_7522.JPG" width="214"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br></div>Emeka Amakezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259486582079865467.post-87270918135035828462020-01-10T07:52:00.001-08:002020-01-10T07:52:50.253-08:00<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sBGgs_wRhb4" width="480"></iframe>Emeka Amakezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259486582079865467.post-45170679200747102912019-12-26T13:03:00.001-08:002019-12-26T13:03:44.007-08:00<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aAleaTjhmFc" width="480"></iframe>Emeka Amakezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259486582079865467.post-28765887059806519862019-12-05T23:54:00.001-08:002019-12-05T23:54:36.312-08:00https://youtu.be/GrviOeXL1QoEmeka Amakezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259486582079865467.post-16967757055080685612019-11-29T04:21:00.001-08:002019-11-29T04:21:34.466-08:00<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rJFx28flhAM" width="480"></iframe>Emeka Amakezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259486582079865467.post-9335926171516539052019-11-22T00:27:00.001-08:002019-11-22T00:27:58.268-08:00<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QwaQjgAtxDc" width="480"></iframe><br /><br />Best way to get a good job and earn a lot of money without working your fingers to the bones.Emeka Amakezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259486582079865467.post-38281237187100572792019-11-20T12:41:00.001-08:002019-11-20T12:41:02.198-08:00<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PL43B0axupeennBCMWf40mIIhDZ68ZGlwF" width="425"></iframe>Emeka Amakezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259486582079865467.post-40639391155122599112019-11-19T23:00:00.001-08:002019-11-19T23:00:37.590-08:00<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1JBuiS6qNfE" width="480"></iframe>Emeka Amakezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259486582079865467.post-45544030228551225212019-11-13T02:33:00.001-08:002019-11-13T02:33:33.045-08:00<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lZAUFtLJRbY" width="480"></iframe>Emeka Amakezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259486582079865467.post-59958587292188626642019-11-04T13:59:00.001-08:002019-11-04T13:59:26.746-08:00<p dir="ltr">I think that telling a poor person who has worked hard all their life that poverty is a state of mind is like a man telling a mother that the pain of childbirth is a state of mind.</p><p dir="ltr">You obviously need money to make money.</p><p dir="ltr">State of mind does not give economic capital.</p><p dir="ltr">Enabling environment, progressive government policies, circumstances of birth can give the economic capital that gets people out of poverty.</p><p dir="ltr">Most poor people lack the above and it hurts.</p><p dir="ltr">It is foolishness for poor people to burden themselves and die with the pain of believing that poverty is a state of mind.</p><p dir="ltr">It is nothing but a blame the victim strategy of the rich to make themselves feel they worked hard enough to escape poverty while the poor are lazy.</p><p dir="ltr">Too many circumstances beyond a person's control could make them poor and force them to remain poor.</p><p dir="ltr">If poverty is a state of mind, why do government always campaign with pulling people out of poverty but never talks about the welfare of their minds?</p><p dir="ltr">People have gone through poorly funded schools by dint of hard work &amp; good grades but ended up jobless... Lots of such cases in Nigeria.</p><p dir="ltr">No social contact or economic capital to lift them out of poverty.</p><p dir="ltr">It's an insult to tell them that their poverty is a state of their minds.</p><p dir="ltr">There is hunger, homelessness, joblessness &amp; insecurity...</p><p dir="ltr">Poor healthcare &amp; education...</p><p dir="ltr">Judiciary ceased to be the last hope of the common man...</p><p dir="ltr">Forget getting out of poverty.</p><p dir="ltr">The fault lies squarely on the government; not on the notion that poverty is a state of mind.</p><p dir="ltr">It's takes capital to study courses that comparatively ensure good salary in the labour market.</p><p dir="ltr">It takes capital to bribe to get good paying jobs.</p><p dir="ltr">The poor people who can't afford the capital cannot change the odds with any state of mind.</p><p dir="ltr">They need scholarships.</p><p dir="ltr">Social contact matters. Know powerful &amp; prominent people? Contracts &amp; money usually follow.</p><p dir="ltr">Who points a poor person to banks to get loans or contract awarding institutions?</p><p dir="ltr">Can state of mind give you recommendations letters?</p><p dir="ltr">Weaponised hunger is used to keep the poor poor.</p><p dir="ltr">If you work through the odds &amp; by stroke of luck, you become rich, we will thank God for your life.</p><p dir="ltr">But before you tell the poor ones that poverty is a state of mind, remember that there are people who are smarter &amp; more hardworking than you who didn't make it out of poverty.</p><p dir="ltr">If you have never known poverty all your life, what do you know about the state of mind of the poor people that makes you think they enjoy watching their families go hungry, their children out of school, loved ones dying in their arms because they can't afford medical bills?</p><p dir="ltr">Poverty is not a state of mind.</p><p dir="ltr">It's a circle you can break out of if you work hard, stay focused and the grace of God showers on you.</p><p dir="ltr">And yes! Some people did next to nothing to break out of poverty.</p><p dir="ltr">Some never gave a thought to being rich but they left poverty behind.</p><p dir="ltr">My name is Emeka Amakeze.</p>Emeka Amakezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259486582079865467.post-48244985574355045742019-11-01T07:58:00.001-07:002019-11-01T07:58:39.531-07:00<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Zz6Dftt87Hw" width="480"></iframe><br /><br />Ezeigbo (Emeka Amakeze) calls Adanna (Chioma Amakeze) his wife and gets the shock of his life.Emeka Amakezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259486582079865467.post-91163634870560561232019-10-25T14:09:00.001-07:002019-10-25T23:45:08.040-07:00Ezeigbo made the mistake of asking Adanna the wrong questions. He never expected the reaction he got from her.<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JJbBmGTfGlM" width="480"></iframe>Emeka Amakezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259486582079865467.post-62736243820728449812019-10-18T15:16:00.001-07:002019-10-25T23:51:52.400-07:00<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0omgmMM2GiU" width="480"></iframe><br>&nbsp;<div>Ezeigbo is the boss who thinks that the only funeral his worker should attend is his own.&nbsp;</div>Emeka Amakezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259486582079865467.post-51693858177092193012019-10-12T10:21:00.001-07:002019-10-25T23:45:55.801-07:00Emeka Amakeze and Blessing Yandi star in this funny video where Ezeigbo tries to show his skill at wooing a girl.<br /><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kcAuMOd9QWQ" width="480"></iframe><br /><br />Emeka Amakezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259486582079865467.post-81911469269083463152019-10-11T00:23:00.001-07:002019-10-11T00:23:07.972-07:00https://youtu.be/JTxq1Gx3odQEmeka Amakezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.com0