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Onyeka Gamero has made history in the USA.

The Afro American with Igbo descent wrote her name in the history books after she scored the fastest-ever goal in tournament history for the USA.

Onyeka Gamero achieved this feat when she opened the scoring for the US U17 women’s team in the 23rd second to lead them to 11-0 win over Curaçao in a CONCACAF U17 Women’s competition.

The wonder kid went on to score in the 49th minute to give the US a 6-0 lead after she assisted Nicholette Kiorpes for a goal in the seventh minute

.Onyeka completed her hat-trick in the 73rd minute for a 10-0 lead.

She scored a total of four goals in the tournament.

Onyeka Gamero is half-Spanish and half-Igbo and also American.

The young lady has already represented US at U15, U16, U17 and U18 levels.

She was named best regional player in the 2020/2021 season.

Based on actual accounts made by British doctors who worked on slave ships, the Story of Adaku is intended to show the terrible turmoil and injustice that was done to a young pregnant woman who was kidnapped against her will and then forced into slavery by the very people of her own land. Nestled in her little village in inland Africa, this young pregnant mother of two boys already had the hopes and dreams which any Igbo woman her age would want of her time. And her joy was furthered with the impending birth of their third child, a child whom they were hoping would be the girl her husband wanted. But she was captured against her will and helpless at that point because of her pregnancy, she yielded to her assailants without question. What happens next is a terrible ordeal for this young woman who learns about the savagery of life's sharp ends and about where betrayals begin - on the very soil that is Africa. Along the way, Adaku meets people like her who were kidnapped against their will and soon she forges friendship with women across all tribes, all in search of a common cause to escape from the brutal trade and greed of certain nations of the coastal africans and those of the northern African landscape who know nothing but of selling human flesh for the gratification of what the white men could offer them.

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"...my point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe... I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. But I was Igbo before the white man came." ~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun— with Mawuna Remarque Koutonin.

Otu Odu Onicha: The women social status is immensely raised by acquisition of ivory ornaments – anklets and bangles. This puts her on the same pedestal as ọzọ title holder even though it is much less expensive to acquire. Her official dress comprises her anklets and bangles, two white loin cloths tied over the other, a white head tie, an elephant-tusk trumpet, priceless coral-bead necklaces and a horse-tail. The bangles, anklets and tusk apart from being ornamental, serve as a distinguishing mark of the achievement of their possessor