1. Gidi gidi bụ ugwu eze. This is an Igbo phrase meaning “unity is strength”. A community grows stronger when its people unite to help one another. In my Ezinihitte Igbo community formed here in Southern California, this is a phrase often used to encourage our community to fundraise for those in need in our hometown in Ezinihitte, Nigeria. In our culture, when celebrants or performers dance at events such as weddings, fundraisers, or graduation parties they get money tossed on them, and the money is either the celebrant’s to keep or in the case of fundraising, gets donated for a particular cause. When it came time for our community to hold a convention to raise money for children schools in Nigeria, I was displeased. I noticed that both the