This woman has been selling ọkpa on my street. My rule is:

This woman has been selling ọkpa on my street. My rule is:

This woman has been selling ọkpa on my street. My rule is:

“Don’t eat ọkpa in Abuja. It’s an insult to ọkpa.”

One day, I saw her carrying the ọkpa and asked her.

“Are you from Nsụka?”

She said yes.

“Where in Nsụka?”

“Iheaka”

“Close to Orie Igboeze under Igboeze South Local Government Area, right?” I asked.

“Aah. You know that side? Yes.”

“Good. You have passed the interview and qualified to cook the ọkpa I can eat. Every morning, come deliver ọkpa for me.”

When it comes to ọkpa, I am very tribalistic. I don’t even eat ọkpa in my place. Except you are from Nsụka. I can manage 9th Mile.

There are local spices Nsụka people use to prepare ọkpa, the secret of ọkpa others are yet to know.

Yes, I lived in Nsụka for almost 8 years. I studied almost everything about them. I have been to all the nooks and crannies of old Nsụka province.

I have eaten all the local delicacies: ayaraya ji, ayaraya ọka, nri ọka, ịgbangwụ, otipiri, ijiriji, etc.

Are you talking about palm wine? Enugwu-Ezike. You see Amechala Enugwu -Ezike with their undiluted palm wine. Can we also talk about Leja and their palm wine?

Can we talk about bush meat? Ngọzi Alọ in Alọ Ụnọ dey run am. If you are a fan of pork meat, ọ karịrị in different joints.

We can go to Nwaanyị Ụgba na Nkwọbi at New Anglican Road or Palm wine with argument of professors at Hilltop Plaza, New Anglican Road.

I had elders in different places within Enugwu -Ezike, Obolo, Ọba, Ụmụjiọha and Ụmụmgbabe Ovoko, Akụ, Ọbụkpa, etc who I visited to be telling me about their history.

One of them known as Alhaji in Ụmụjiọha, Ovoko, I usually rode on my ladies motorcycle to visit him, he would tell me to let him know my spec, he must get a wife for me within the community 🤣🤣🤣. He was blind anyways. His two wives never joked with me. They said I was the only person their husband would hear his voice and come out even when he didn’t want to. The man loved me so much and hid nothing from me.

I didn’t just study in UNN, I studied Nsụka, the host community. Speak Nsụka and its variant dialects through the nose, I understand you.

Well, after eating ọkpa nwaanyị Nsụka just now, the aroma brought up the nolstagic feels of my days in Nsụka.

I will tell you how masquerade flogged me silly in the next article. You see Akatakpa and Oriọkpa masquerade….