OzikoroThe Igbo Diaspora in the Caribbean and America: “Ụwa bụ ahia; onye zere ahia, zere uwa”
“Ụwa bụ ahia; onye zere ahia, zere uwa” (The world is a marketplace; whoever avoids the market avoids the world). This proverb reminds us that no one can escape the interactions that shape destiny. For the Igbo, scattered by the Atlantic slave trade, the world itself became that vast market where their traditions, songs, and…