The Igbo Think Tank, under the aegis of Aka Ikenga, has mourned the passing of a veteran musicologist, composer, and actor, Lady Onyeka Onwenu, describing her as a rare pan-Ndigbo unionist, a “One Love” Nigerianist, and a universalist.
Aka Ikenga said this in a statement by its President, Agbalanze Dr. Chike Madueke, issued by the group’s spokesperson, Mr. Collins Steve Ugwu, a copy of which was made available to newsmen on Thursday, noting that Onyeka, whom he described as “our deeply proudest and cherished elegant stallion,” bided the world farewell “the very best way she desired, and circumstances concurred.”
“Our deeply proudest and most cherished elegant stallion, Lady Onyeka Onwenu, has painfully signed out the very best way she desired, and circumstances concurred.
“We appreciate that is the way of authentic legends—that she definitely was and awesomely lived all through her earthly Renaissance sojourn. It is the mystique of her creation, which ordinary mortals are never privileged to know, exploit, or understand,” the group said.
Madueke recalled that Onyeka grew her entertainment architecture as “a vigorous social enchanter of equality and inclusion, an activist gender barriers breaker, to a nationalist and continental ‘One Love’ renderer, whose daring honesty and purist courage remarked her speciality,” saying that, in her industry and far beyond it, she was a reset voice of noblest bravery and character and indeed, an endowed woman with extra manly potentialities.
“As we mourn and grieve her departure amidst our grave sequence of hurting notable exits of Ndigbo rare stocks, we take solace that this pivotal diamond pearl scripted her poise of exit in a full theatre of accolades and ululations at a live, eternal farewell.
“We say goodnight to our one love Nigerians and a rare pan-Ndigbo unionist and universalist,” Aka Ikenga president said.
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