DAY 1: THE 12-DAYS ONLINE MARATON OF UNGBEMGBE PROMO

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The 12-Days Online Marathon of Ungbemgbe

Day 1

What is Ungbemgbe?

#Ungbemgbe is a hit-hot single of #gbeduPoetry jam by 2'WYTH. It's a #gbeduPoetry whose theme is centred on the importance of love as a therapy during depression. It's a true life story. Although, #Ungbemgbe originally is a fruit, sweeter than sugar and honey but figuratively, #Ungbemgbe means Sweetness.

HISTORY AND ETYMOLOGY OF UNGBEMGBE

Ungbemgbe is one of the tropical plants, which bears "flavour-tripping" fruits, which taste several  hundred times sweeter than sugar. Ungbemgbe bears areal fruits just like guava, mango, orange, etc. trees.

Through the years, Ungbemgbe has been used for drinking garri (a powdery substance obtained from cassava tubers) instead of fish. It is also used for drinking overnight palmwine to improve the taste of the palmwine. The moment you eat Ungbemgbe, every other thing you eat or drink, including water, becomes sweet. Its after-taste is very strong and long-lasting in the mouth. It has been proven scientifically that Ungbemgbe is sweeter than sugar and honey.

There is also another fruit called Ukalabem, scientifically called Aframomum, which is used to complement Ungbemgbe.  Ukalabem is a red fruit (when ripe), of a ginger-like underground stem. These two wild fruits, i.e. Ungbemgbe and Ukalabem, are used to show affection between two lovers or love birds who cannot do without each other.

The unique feeling of love between two young adults or even married couples is referred to as Ungbemgbe nu Ukalabem (Ungbemgbe and Ukalabem) in the Usokun variety of the Degema language spoken by the Usokun-Degema community in Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State of Nigeria.

Information Source: Professor Ethelbert Kari, Professor of Linguistics, Progress Igolima (aka The Young Dangote of Usokun), Mr. Misweite Kari, Hon. Oso-omeseasu Osima

UNGBEMGBE STORY

Ungbemgbe is a #gbeduPoetry inspired by the story of a First Class graduate who did not get a job for 7 years after series of interviews. On attending the last interview, he vowed to tear-off his certificate if he lost the interview. Unfortunately, he lost the interview. When he was about to tear-off his certificate, a girl stopped him from doing so. Finally, he fell in love with the girl and the girl became the Ungbemgbe (sweetness) in his life and spiced up everything in his life. That is the short background story of the jam, #Ungbemgbe. He found his #Ungbemgbe while in depression and #Ungbemgbe changed the narrative in his life. This story is an excerpt from a novel "Dis First Class Tin Set", Coming Soon. The novel is written by Otatane-oso "2'WYTH" Andrew.

However, indirectly, the story above inspired #Ungbemgbe but directly, what inspired #Ungbemgbe is my story at the moment between April-September 2019. I was in depression after losing my source of income as a Photographer, due to my relocation to Lagos accompanied by my Jumia Scam Story that broke the camel's back. I was scammed of my last savings I wanted to use to buy a new camera on Jumia Online to start up my business again. Unfortunately, a fake online Jumia official duped me. I was so broke and frustrated; someone who makes 5-figures in a month ended up making no income for a period of 5 months, just expenses from the little money remaining on me. Most times, I literally ask for financial support from friends; some oblige, some do not, even after series of promises. Some stopped picking my calls, while some ignored my chats. I wrote series of applications for jobs, all to no avail. Now, that is the period in Nigeria when we recorded high rate of suicide cases from different parts of Nigeria. Although, I thought about committing suicide but Poetry was there for me to nudge me, whispering to me that all hope was not lost; there is a brighter, better tomorrow, if I hang-on on hope and have faith in God and fall in love with a girl.

UNGBEMGBE: MY DEPRESSION THERAPY

The four things that made me scale through my period of depression (my depression therapy) are:

1. Hope and Faith: Hope for a brighter tomorrow and faith in God inspired by the story of the Biblical Job.

2. Love: When I had not fallen in love, my predicament was always consuming me but the moment I made up my mind to fall in love, love lightened the burden of depression in my heart. Every moment I spent with the one I love was Balm of Gilead to my life in general.

3. Poetry: Writing Poetry of encouragement to myself, denouncing the evil thoughts of suicide and others and also writing to encourage others helped me pull through.

4. Evolution: This moment of my life was a time of constructive evolution for me; it built my character, my career and my relationship with God and a girl.

#Ungbemgbe is directly a #gbeduPoetry inspired by my experience in depression, it is part of my Port Harcourt (PH) to Lagos (Eko) Story. But, thanks to God that this depression did not end in suicide but it ended in a testimony with a Love Song/#gbeduPoetry jam that is now a creative solution to tackling depression. In conclusion, #Ungbemgbe is my Therapy Story for my Moments of Depression.

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