Nsukka: My Hometown, My Pride! ❤️
My hometown is Nsukka and I am super proud of it, including my language which is Igbo. The city is located in the Eastern part of Nigeria, precisely in Enugu state. And yeah, I was born and raised in my hometown majorly via my grandma. Interestingly , I also schooled in my hometown, and I experienced many of our cultures until I got married and relocated out of my hometown 12 years ago. So yea, I have enough knowledge about my hometown good enough to tell you vividly the uniqueness of my hometown as an adult currently .
Nsukka is my beautiful hometown with one of the leading universities in Nigeria which is the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN). It is the first indigenous university in Nigeria established after independence and my hometown is its location,people from far and near strive to gain admission in this school due to its uniqueness .
So when I am taking so much pride in my hometown,you should know where it is coming from . Even foreign students travel down to my hometown for schooling, and that's how unique it is, so yeah, you too may start planning for your kids to school there.
There are many reasons I am so proud of my hometown and the people in it. One is that we are hardworking people, even parents who weren't privileged to attend school engage so much in farming just to send their children to school,is that not interesting ?. Right from childhood, the children are being trained in farming as well, so literally, a good percentage of people in my hometown are all good at farming including my humble self, you should trust my grandma on that .
Again, those who cannot afford to school learn business at an early stage, and some engage in learning hand work like mechanics, tailoring , plumbing , bricklayer etc.
Overall, you can hardly see lazy youths in my hometown from my observations so far. Some secondary students engage in barrow pushing business during the holiday as a means of hustling to assist their parents in paying bills., even myself engaged in peeling melon just to earn small cash back then to assist Grandma in buying my exercise books and it's always like this for other young ones during the holidays
Talking about farming, my people are blessed with this skill. Most of the food we eat comes from our farmland. There is no shame in this because it saves a lot of money buying virtually everything in the market. I can tell you that all families in my hometown engage in farming either in big or small scale farming .
The last time I visited my hometown, I didn't hesitate to visit my mummy's farm and harvest corn 🌽 for myself ☺️
We are blessed with different kinds of plants, palm fruits, ogbono tree (for draw soup), avocado tree, native pear, etc. And guess what? We make money 🤑💰 from these fruit plants as well, and it's win win
one thing we lack in my hometown that i believe will make the place better for everyone is electricity supply. Currently , our present governor has been fixing the roads but I am yet to see them attend to electricity in my hometown . You have to cross seven rivers to power your phone if you don't have generator at home. It's a big challenge I feel that we have grown pass this level as development keep coming gradually .
However, I believe it's already a work in progress as our spokesman met with the governor during their ele tiin campaign yesterday.
So hopefully, thus challenge will be a thing of the past soon
This post is in response to the #hivelearners community contest on the topic titled YOUR HOMETOWN