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REVEALED: Story behind Song in Brainjotter’s trending Challenge -Click Insights

By News Editor,RaymonJay
His full name is Mike Ejeagharibe, shortened as Mike Ejeagha. He is a renowned Igbo folklore musician with over 37 Albums and five singles to his credit. His 1960 song “Ofu nwa anaa” shot him to prominence. Ejeagha is a native of Imezi-Owa in Ezeagu LGA of Enugu state. Mike Ejeagha brought glory to Ndigbo and kept the ancient ways of his ancestors alive through his folklore music. In Igbo land, due to his trademark of telling long stories in his music, you would be told “Akụkọ Mike Ejeagha” to a long story.

His trending song, “Gwo Gwo Gwo Ngwo”, an excerpt from the original song, Ka Esi Lee Onyeisi Oche, was released 41 years ago. On April 4, 2024, he clocked 94 years.

The Folklore

The song from Mike Ejiagha is folktale. The King had previously informed all the animals in his kingdom that anyone who could bring a big animal such as elephant or cow in tether to the feast would marry his daughter. Now none of the animals could bring the elephant to the feast in rope. But the tortoise had a different idea. He went to the elephant and informed him that through his (tortoise) effort, the king had approved him (the elephant) to chair the occasion and that he would like to go with him to the ceremony.

On their way, the tortoise informed the elephant that he couldn’t walk because he was frail and old. So the elephant suggested the tortoise to climb on his back so he could hitch-hike him to the occasion.

In the course of the journey, the tortoise suggested to elephant that he needed a rope on the neck of the elephant so that he wont fall down from the top, a request which the elephant obliged. On the approach to the feast the tortoise climbed down from the back of the elephant and handed the tethered animal to the king and married his daughter.


The folktale theme is an attempt by the storyteller (Mike Ejiagha) to elevate intellectual capacity or quality over muscular capacity or quantity… The gwo gwo gwo ngwo is the heavy movement of the elephant.

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