User:Ilona, Remy

REMY ILONA Remy Ilona is an Igbo attorney, and a Religious Studies scholar, at University of California, Riverside, presently. He was at Florida International University, Miami. He is many things to many people. He co-founded and leads Omenana Defenders and Hebrew Igbo People; two organizations which have spearheaded Igbo people’s recovery from criminal Euro-colonization.

He has devoted a greater part of his life to researching, and documenting Igbo history and culture. This is a gargantuan job, as Igbo history spans a beginning at Ur of the Chaldeans, where Abraham the premier ancestor of the Igbo, whose moniker the ‘Hebrew’ Igbos took as a national name, was born. This history pans movement to Israel, sojourn in Egypt, movement back to Israel, and movement again, to what became West Africa. And again, movement in slave-ships to the Caribbeans, the Americas, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Remy is author of 14 books which include the very influential ‘The Igbos And Israel: An Inter-cultural Study of the Largest Israelite Diaspora’, ‘Hebrew Igbo Republics’ and ‘An African American History-From Israel through Africa to the Americas’, and the up-coming ‘Igbo And Abraham’s DNA: Greatest Secret Of Our Time Unveiled With Complex connections between Igbo, African Americans, Caribbeans, Hebrew Israelites and Jews.’

African American scholar and academic, Professor Walter Isaac, formerly of Savannah State University, Savannah, Georgia, observed in an article that Remy has uncovered what Eurocentric scholarship has myopically glossed over: profound ethnic ties linking Igbos, many African Americans, Caribbeans and European Jewry.

Igbo musician, Chi Mmadike called him the Igbo Josephus. Canadian Israeli author, Steven Mostyn described him as one of the world’s greatest living historians. American Jew, Peter Jablin called him one of the world’s foremost historians. And American novelist, Michael Drosdowich honored him for bringing to life parts of history that are overlooked, and which are yet very vital in making the complex tapestry that is humanity complete. Professor Daniel Lis believes his understanding of the Bible is profound and unique, and he’s universally acknowledged to be one of the world’s top Hebraists.

With over 50 million Igbos, and millions of African Americans, Caribbeans, Sierra Leoneans, Liberians, descending from the same ancestors, Omenana, i.e, Igbo religion, which is Israel’s earliest religion, and which Remy is without question its top expert today, is certainly a major and universal religion. And from what we see, Omenana itself has a story to tell, and it also has many responses. To be brief, it anticipated, and has I repeat, appropriate responses to all the ills we face in the world today, and these include ills like the Coronavirus pandemic, which shut down much of the world. Brought to the table, Omenana would have dominated COVID-19.