If You Want A Good Wife, Come To Ogbaku This Yuletide

By Cami Ezenwa

If you want a good wife to marry, follow my advice and come to Ogbaku this yuletide; no other area neither period, for very good reasons, would be worth your while.

You may even want to ask: where is Ogbaku in the first place, and why should I bother picking my spouse, a life-long companion from there of all places?

It is a sprawling community of eighteen villages in Imo State, west of Owerri, the capital, inhabited by very amiable people, the best stock of the Igbo race that you can ever meet.

If you can think of any good natured fellow of Igbo extraction you had interacted with in the past, there is every likelihood they are Ogbaku, either by birth or association. Yes, there are sons of belial, as the Bible would refer to the vagabonds of any stock; but when it comes to the common streak of a lineage of people, from epoch to epoch, give good naturedness  to the Ogbaku people; kind, accommodating, loving, caring, tolerant and supportive, not surprising though, given the deep morals of their migration story.

Cami Ezenwa

Suffice that when you engage Ogbaku girls for marriage, you are far in good company, for their mothers, trailing the old hallowed path of virtuous and diligent living, had prepared them beforehand, worthy trophies for the men destined.

Like others from the East, it is in December, that they migrate home from where they are schooling, working, learning a trade, or just sitting in with a relation.

That is why the Christmas and New Year season is it for you, if you want a good wife and you desire to pick her from here. Even the obere agbohobia n’ekwu (the quarter to; impressionable teens not yet in full bloom) are present and you would have a wide variety of marriageable materials to choose from.

It is said that Okoro, or Igbos must travel home during Christmas, and that is eminently true, but it is a travel informed more by the pull of the kindred spirit, to sight one another once again, to hear stories of progress in different areas of engagement, and regale in all other exciting attractions of the Yuletide.

For example, it is believed in some Igbo clans that try as you may, you would never achieve the same flavour of Igbo delicacies preparing them outside of Igboland.

And that, irrespective of the blossoming number of Igbo town unions in the different cities and towns with impressive Igbos’ residency, you would only get a measure of camaraderie, and kindred spirit, as is availed you in Igbo heartland.

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Igbos are kings of culture, and compounds in Igbo homeland are different, the obi and kitchen laid in a way you would never find in the cities. Home, you can be sure of aunties and uncles, distant and close by, alive with their duties of sounding and resounding morals to the new arrivals in the collective spirit of bringing up children in Igboland.

The girls are much on focus, engaged in village life games, different domestic chores, as part of their pre-marital grooming for the good wife, and to the sheer delight of parents and relations.

Even in their delectable attires, overflowing hairs, and far better public etiquettes, an Ogbaku girl home for Christmas and the New Year, is certain to criss-cross villages gracing functions for self or in proxy for parents. It is not Lagos for example, where the tendency is to bike every distance.

A girl or potential suitor’s turning point might just be in that ten minutes’ walk to deliver a message; stroll in the company of others seeing out new settlements, or by the village square, watching seasonal traditional dances.

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In fact, she might well be the energetic lead dancer with all such appealing native makeups, that have spoken most eloquently with the sleekness of her skin or intriguing dance steps than by anything else. And there are many such displays this season, with maidens ever in attendance.  Come to think of it, you may have enjoyed, on television, India marriage customs, or Jewish marriage customs, but there is also grandeur in Igbo marriage culture, once you do the needful. Each segment of the ritual has a moral message.

So, if you want a good wife, come to Ogbaku this season, culture kings and you are likely to find that damsel of your dream.

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