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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