The Elegant Stallion and one of Africa’s most successful female musicians, Onyeka Onwenu, is devasted and dumbfounded. The courageous crooner and gifted gazelle just lost her mother, Madam Hope Onwenu. The resilient and good-hearted woman who would have been 93-years-old on January 6, 2012 died on Saturday, October 22, 2011, in Anambra State.
We learnt that she had not been enjoying the best of health for sometime, but that her final hours were enveloped in joy and happiness. One of her children, Onyeka, spent the whole of Wednesday, October 18, with her, plaiting her hair and even revisiting one of the woman’s classic compositions, Ochie Dike, with her. Narrating what exactly happened that day, she said: “We sang Ochie Dike Nnem, the song she wrote for her own mother and we sang praises to God, in our usual manner. She slept off and I left. I promised to come back on Tuesday. But I have been praying ever since, that if it was her time, that God will take her gently and peacefully in her sleep. That is exactly what happened. I give all the glory to my God. May my mother’s indomitable spirit rest in perfect peace. Ochie Dike, Ka Omesia. Dalu nnem. I love you”, she said in an emotion – laden voice. Her burial plans will be announced in due course.
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