Synopsis
The Outcast System occurs in Africa and India. In Nigeria, outcasts are called Osu. As freeborn, myself, I was brought up to see the outcast as lower class humans. Our culture made it an abomination to have any relationships with them. I was forbidden from marrying from their stock. They could not hold some traditional titles and were never appointed Traditional Rulers. These fell apart when I saw blood donation by an outcast. The thoughts as to who would use the blood he donated bordered me. After some reflections and applying Scientific, Religious and Sociological knowledge, I concluded that the Outcast System is baseless, instituted in ignorance and being perpetuated in ignorance. To illustrate, I told the pitiable story of what would happen if a freeborn tries to marry an outcast. This book will make the readers worldwide abandon the System without coercion or force of law.
About the Author
Sir Adolphus Ekejiuba is a retired geologist who has over thirty-five years' experience in the oil and gas industry. He worked with the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited for about twenty-six years. A man inclined to philanthropy, Ekejiuba has contributed significantly to his community development and the well-being of the less privileged. He has in the course of business and pleasure traversed large parts of Africa, Europe, North America and a part of Asia. As a man who grew up in the rural communities, Ekejiuba has great interests in the traditions and cultures of his people. A man of peace, Ekejiuba strongly objects to some cultural practices that result in discrimination and the denial of equal rights to a section of the communities based on social classification. Ekejiuba therefore took advantage of his science background to disprove the bases for the practice of one such classification, the Outcast System, in the book: "Love and Stigma: The Outcast System." A Knight of St. John International and a Traditional Chief in his community, Ekejiuba is the founder of the Adolphus Ekejiuba Foundation, now Friends-In-Need Foundation International (www.fin-foundationintl.org), a philanthropic organization aimed at catering for rural people and disadvantaged people in the society. Interestingly, Ekejiuba is not an outcast. He is not speaking for himself; he is speaking for humanity. His other website (www.adolphusekejiubafoundation.org) also gives more information about the book and the Foundation.
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