A PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPT OF AGWU IN IGBO LAND

About the Book

This book is written to create awareness and see if adequate interpretation would be given to certain phenomena and calamities created by the vagaries of nature and induced by spirits, Agwu inclusive, and suggest how they can be resolved. To do this, Agwu has examined the concept in all its tendencies and ramifications.

It tries to explain the relationship between Agwu and other creatures from the sources of life—Supreme Being—to the least inanimate object. The moral standard set by Agwu to its worshippers has been a masterpiece incentive and also a source of inspiration to ordinary mortals who watch with admiration the special Agwu elect.

About the Author

Agwu Christopher Agwu (KSM) was born in Okposi Achara Ohaozara in Ebonyi State of Nigeria. He attended St. Brendan’s Primary School–Okposi from 1956 to 1963 and Izzi County Secondary School from 1965 to 1971. He attended the Teacher’s Training College–Awgu from 1973 to 1975. Agwu earned his BA degree in philosophy at the University of Nigeria–Nsukka in 1985.

He taught in many primary and secondary schools in Nigeria, including Command Children’s School–Kaduna, Jiwa Primary School–Abuja, Eziokposi High School–Ebonyi State, among others. He worked as a guest reporter with the Imo Broadcasting Corporation, Owerri Imo State. He represented Okposi Ward II as councillor in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State from 1991 to 1993.

Mr Agwu is presently a deputy director in Federal Character Commission and Seconded to Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation, and Fiscal Commission all in Abuja.

He is a staunch Catholic and happily married, with children. He played football and was a very active sportsman. He enjoys telling stories, counseling, reading, and writing articles in magazines and periodicals.