When we drink palm wine, we say Ancestors, you are here with us, you are not dead, stay with us, pray for us, watch over us then we spill palm wine. why? because the land belongs to the past, the ancestors, the present, the living, and the unborn.
Then we say we would like to produce goods. Useful goods, not useless goods. Stay with us, pray with us, watch over us
It speaks to the beginning of a quiet revolution in Anambra state _ a social, cultural, Scientific and industrial revolution all rolled in one in Anambra state and this with the news today february 22 2022 that Governor Elect Charles Soludo would be driving in locally manufactured innoson motors, wearing akwaette local textiles and serving only palm wine and locally made Beer in the Governor’s Lodge.
It’s reminding me of what I advised the 7 million manufacturing workers in Nigeria to do: boycott the boycottables in the entertainment industry if they refuse to use made in Nigeria in their films, songs, and many publicized outings. There should be collaboration and cooperation.scratch my back i scratch your back.
Only recently, I said that the Yorubas should go back to drinking palm wine. They are saying Ogun, the god of Palm wine, no longer drinks palm wine! When you stop drinking palm wine, you disrupt a whole system. A value chain that might come back to haunt you. What goes round come round. We drink palm wine not to get drunk; otherwise, we are flogged. This is the protocol for the palm wine-drinking bar. We drink palm wine for fellowship. How many jobs were lost to choice wines from South Africa?
For instance, there are six million palm trees between Abia State and Akwa Ibom. A lot of palm wine and jobs. Besides, the palm tree is a gift to mankind.1001 products from the palm tree!
Of course, the trees have known the ancestors, having been here before us, and they would remain after us, providing palm wine and more for the unborn.
The Mathematicians talk about the butterfly effect. A little event somewhere resulting in something large elsewhere.
Besides, Palm wine is medicinal. Helps in lactation, healthy nails, skin, eyesight, etc.
A man who loses his culture has lost his soul. This should be written in Gold. Back 500 years ago, the Igbo were exporting Textiles to BRAZIL! So revealed the King’s College London Historian, Toby Green
There is Charles Soludo in Awka, Africa. Prince Charles of London, UK, and Charles de Gaulle of Paris, France. In France, it is almost a treasonable felony to refuse or be found not drinking wine. The whole world waits for Charles of Awka.
