In Igbo folklore, a certain bird called ‘Oturukpokpo’ (the woodpecker) once boasted to other birds that on the day his mother would die, he would not only pull down the iroko tree with his long beak, he would make a one-in-town casket there from in honour of his mother. He also promised to rende
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Zebulon Agomuo
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