Onyeka Onwenu, a veteran Nigerian singer and entertainer, gave a significant comment a long time back about how she needed to be recollected and buried.
Onwenu passed on Tuesday night at Reddington Clinic in Lagos after falling at Mrs. Stella Okoli’s birthday celebration. She left behind a tradition of incredible music and significant backing.
In a 2021 post distributed on Premium Times, Onwenu communicated her craving for an unobtrusive and confidential entombment with no superfluous displays.
“Do it quickly, quietly and privately,” she wrote.
She urged her friends and family to grieve her demise, however not excessively. All things considered, she trusted they would respect her existence with petitions and happy minutes.
“Celebrate me with petitions, lunch or supper thereafter. Share a few kids about me and snicker. Make joy and afterward approach your business,” she communicated.
Onwenu additionally requested that her companions praise her while she was as yet alive, instead of after her passing.
“If my companions need to celebrate me, they ought to do as such while I`m alive, so I can appreciate it with them, not when I`m proceeded to have no clue about this. That is me Onyeka Onwenu,” she expressed.
Her viewpoint incorporated a judgment of the unnecessary showcases of wealth that are normal at Nigerian internments, contrasting her longings and the costly memorial service of Obi Cubana’s mother, which made incredible contention.
“I am truly awkward with the sumptuous showcase of abundance on any event, particularly in a period of difficulty and need for most others,” she commented, supporting for additional humble and significant ways of respecting the departed.
Onyeka Onwenu’s assorted professions included music, films, support, news coverage, and governmental issues.
Her music, which incorporates tunes like “One Love” and “You and I,” as well as her works, including her collection of memoirs “My Father’s Daughter,” everlastingly affect Nigerian culture.
