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The Homily Today

Six humans trapped by happenstance  In black and bitter cold  Each possessed a stick of wood,  Or so the story's told. Their dying fire in need of logs,  The first woman held hers back For on the faces around the fire She noticed one was black. The next man looking 'cross the way Saw one not of his church And couldn't bring himself to give The fire his stick of birch. The third one sat in tattered clothes He gave his coat a hitch, Why should his log be put to use To warm the idle rich? The rich man just sat back and thought Of the wealth he had in store, And how to keep what he had earned From the lazy, shiftless poor. The black man's face bespoke revenge As the fire passed from his sight, For all he saw in his stick of wood Was a chance to spite the white. And the last man of this forlorn group Did naught except for gain, Giving only to those who gave Was how he played the game. The logs held tight in death's stilled hands Was proof of

IDEALISM VERSUS REALITY

LAWRENCE CHARLES NWANGWA   NGWA/UKWA LIBERATION   (CHARLES NWANGWA PLAN OF ACTION)   IDEALISM VERSUS REALITY   PART ONE   IN THE BEGINNING   A lot have been written, said and analysed on the problems of the NGWA/U   KWA and her peoples, while I do not wish to repeat what have been said   severally, I also consider it apposite to digress on some of our immediate   past justifying the Ngwa adage that "one who fails to note where the   rain began to beat him will not know where it stopped to beat him".   NDINGWA operated an agrarian economy: mainly for subsistence. Consequent   on this LAND became the beginning and ends all. Any one who did not distinguish   himself either as a powerful farmer, physical prowess as a tiller of   the soil or land owner who could do "kwoo kwoorom (a system whereby the   landowner gives out some portions of land to another who is less endowed   but with physical strength, to cultivate for him and in return he is   given some as his reward or pr