The Igbo apprenticeship is an amazing system and the reason Igbos are great in business. Everything has it's advantage and disadvantage and that same system has also portrayed Igbos as clannish people who only employ their own people and never assimilate
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These are my opinions and thoughts over the years and I might be completely wrong but this is how I see it .

Just like the Jews, Igbos are resented & I have always wondered why? Is it because they are successful and can achieve anything from nothing? Is it the resilience? I concluded it is because it seems no matter how long they stay with you or you with them you are never one in biz

Systems are to be looked at and upgraded from time to time. It is also important to look at how things are perceived by others. You don't have to change but just know this is how this action is seen by others

The Jews too have that trait. Family businesses. Helping each other grow in business and capacity to gang up(if na one naira na one naira) on business issues are common traits shared by both Igbos and Jews. The others feel like outsiders not allowed to share in the goodness

I see the tribal defenders are already coming to my thread and saying I never say anything good about Igbos but like I said to one, some say I never say anything good about Arewa.
Anyway I say what you need to hear not what you want to hear.
Lets go!

A situation where as a business person you only employ your people via the apprenticeship model & no matter how long you stay in a place you never employ the indigenes there except to load and off load there will be resentment. More if it is not one off experience but the norm

In all the riots I witnessed as a child, I always say it is more economical than religion. Host community usually think it is the others that kept them impoverished. They feel those monies would have been theirs if these people weren't there.
People don't blame their lazy selves

There is a need to take a deliberate look at the Igbo apprenticeship system & begin to look at ways of inclusion. It can start with 5% inclusion of others
When you always go to your village to bring those that will work for you how do you expect the people where you are to feel?

Let me state that I am not hausa from the North. I am Etsako from Edo State. Please don't go abusing hausas in this thread because you assume any hijab wearing woman who bears Aisha in Nigeria must be hausa.
Thank you.