Curiousity Memoirs

By Jude Obuseh  “ Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” Chinua Achebe To the modern Igbo person, Ekwensu is the Igbo word for the Devil. He isn't just a lookalike of Satan, but Satan himself, merely called by a local name. Much like how a cup is referred to as "iko," Ekwensu is seen as the epitome of evil, the antithesis of Chukwu, the supreme God. He represents every imaginable form of wickedness, from the trivial to the downright hideous.  Interestingly, this view is a recent development that has gained popularity in modern interpretations. Originally, Ekwensu was not the chief of evil, the daring rival to Chukwu destined to roast in hell with the humans he possessed on earth.  According to the book "The Ekwensu Semantics and the Igbo Christian Theolinguistics" by P-J Ezeh, the original Igbo usage of Ekwensu did not connote evil. Ekwensu was a god, one among the many worshipped in Igbol...