Nollywood Movie Premieres

Mercedes Onye Bekee Premieres:

a Nollywood Movie on Obi-Igbo platform

at World Igbo Congress Convention New York

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Mercedes Onye Bekee comes to WIC

Obi Igbo is a project geared towards the promotion and preservation of Igbo language and culture using the Let’s Speak Igbo application software, Movies and stage performances as tools to re-awaken the Igbo language consciousness and increase patriotic behaviors among the Igbo. It is a platform for the propagation and exhibition of Igbo language and heritage through movies, dance and drama that will showcase the rich artistic traditions of Ndi Igbo with the intention of increasing penchant for Igbo language, culture, Literature and arts.
THEME
Ka anyi suo asusu Igbo (Lets speak Igbo)
PREAMBLE
Language is the very essence of a people defining the culture and creating group identity.
Igbo people are found doing business, studying, trading and working practically everywhere in the world which should make Igbo language an international language but we seem to have jettisoned the intergenerational transmission of the Igbo language in exchange for western trends.
OBJECTIVES
We write this document to propose a timely intervention strategy to reawaken the Igbo language and Igbo consciousness through films, skits, mems, propagandas and theatrical performances in order to safe Igbo language from extinction.
The problem is that the use of Igbo as a language of communication by Igbo is dwindling by the day thereby making Igbo Language an endangered language.
The Igbo are obsessed with western trends with the same passion that the Israelites longed for Cucumbers and Garlic that they ate in Egypt despite the availability of manna from heaven, a rare food only them ever had the opportunity and grace to eat.
The modern day Igbo especially the elite’s exhibit social violence against Igbo language at home, work, school, church, business and social settings. Igbo mothers love their children speaking in Queens English to the admiration of others which is vain and foolish. It’s disheartening that Igbo language that should be a trademark and a common identity amongst the Igbo is treated with much disdain instead of being flaunted with pride
Igbo language is treated as a language of the poor and illiterate low class.
98% of film marketers in Nigeria are Igbo and 79% of Nollywood is made up of Igbo people, yet you can hardly find Igbo film and Igbo literatures. We prefer to be more English than the English man.
FACTS
The truth is that the extinction of Igbo language is the extinction of a people. We do not want a future where statements like ‘We used to be Igbo will be made especially with the increasing massacre of the Igbo. The hard truth is that it will happen if we do not take the bull by the horn.
UNESCO list Igbo as one of the most endangered languages facing extinction. The implication of this is that our culture may be heading for extinction too because language is an ethnic identity and drives culture.
If Igbo Language dies like Latin great knowledge and proverbs will pass from the earth that will never exist at any other time or place that is why we have birth Obi-Igbo (The heart of Igbo)
The men who built the tower of Babel spoke one language but once God confused their languages they scattered.
Imagine an Igbo race that speak their language everywhere they are found like the Chinese and Jews, Igbo will become an international language

PLAN TO BE THERE. OUR SALVATION IS IN OUR HANDS