What is a secret cult in Nigeria anyway?
So why am I happy? I am happy that someone has finally given the long-suffering adherents of African traditional religions a voice from the bench; in this case, the devotees Igbo religious creed: Odinani. For many moons, paranoid pastors and their prayer warriors have descended on religious relics of Ndiigbo and stolen ancestral treasures for overseas markets, all in the name of sanctifying communities. The authorities have looked the other way, just so they wont be accused by their high and mighty pastors of defending practicing pagans. I have argued severally in Odinani Forum, a yahoogroups forum for Igbo traditional religion, that one way to stop crude Charismatic Catholicism or petty Pentecostal Protestantism is to take these religious extremists to court and claim record damages. It is incomprehensible insanity that some shady characters in white robes blame ancestral shrines for socioeconomic regression. If churches cannot turn our society around in over a century, maybe, just ma
