Dear OMS Community,
We are yet again at the end of another quarter of the year—Q3 has officially come to an end. How time flies, right?
As I promised in the Q2 memo we sent out, we’ve since published a new addition to the OMS Guides Series—A Guide on Kolanut in Igbo Tradition—released AKUNNA: Book One of The Age of Ekwensu Trilogy for our fiction lovers, and even added two new books to the OGBANJE Series, our growing collection of stories centered around the Ogbanje phenomenon and Igbo realities.
We’ve also been working really hard behind the scenes to make more resources available and upload more complete teachings across our faculties in ways that remain aligned with the larger vision for OMS. We will continue making as much progress as we can throughout Q4, the final quarter of the year, and you can expect to receive general updates from us as we do so.
As many of you already know, one of my biggest goals with our faculties is to provide you with 1,000 complete, exclusive, and in-depth teachings exploring different aspects of Igbo worldview and cosmology in ways that are simple, accessible, and easy to digest. I have every intention of succeeding in this mission, and we shall.
As we enter this new and final quarter of the year, I hope you are well in mind, soul, and body. I hope you are taking care of yourself. I hope you have ways to protect yourself and your loved ones from the chaos and troubles of the world. I hope you have people you can rely on. I hope you are making time for intentional joy. And above all, I hope you are taking care of YOU in the best way that you can.
I wish you goodness, peace, and tangible blessings in this chilly season of the year. If you ever need to chat, you know where to find me.
In the meantime, I’ll get back to doing the work of providing what you signed up for at OMS, so that when we meet again at the end of this new quarter, I’ll have plenty more updates to share with you.
Take care.
With immense gratitude,
Oma
Why “OBODO”?
We chose the name Obodo for our quarterly memos because, in Igbo philosophy, Obodo means “community,” it is a concept centered around the belief that "I am because we are." It teaches that our humanity is shaped through our relationships with others, that our well-being is tied to the well-being of those around us. Obodo reminds us that no one thrives in isolation, and that our actions should uplift not only ourselves, but also the collective we belong to.
