‘Human tabooing’ is how Nigerian novelist Uchenna Awoke describes the central theme of his coming-of-age novel, The Liquid Eye of a Moon.The young narrator, Dimkpa, is from the Igbo lower caste, osu ...

Two communities - Amurie Omanze and Oboro Amurie - in the Isu Local Government Area of Imo State have fixed January 4, 2024, to publicly announce the abolition of Osu, also known as the caste system.

In Uchenna Awoke’s debut novel, we come to understand that 15-year-old Dimkpa’s choices are painfully constricted by the caste system into which he was born.

Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one’s birth that is tied to concepts of purity and social status. Its history, evolution and current state are complicated. A move to ...

Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one’s birth that is tied to concepts of purity and social status. Its history, evolution and current state are complicated. A move to ...