Copied from the book Cosmic Chain by Onyeji Nnaji. What Igbo thought has not clearly defined is the marking out of the difference amidst the mind and the heart. Igbo refer to the mind as "Obi", while the heart is regarded as the seed of the chest, "Mkpuru Obi". In the same way, the two patitioned set of ribs housing the heart is also called, "Obi". This made it difficult, at times, for one to understand when the Igbo actually mean the mind, not the chest, in their speech. The Igbo metaphysics is concerned with the mind, not the heart as the expression may connote. Thoughts settle in the mind, not the heart; in the same way, affections are the affairs of the mind, not the heart. The mind becomes overtaken and possibly controlled by love. The reason is simple, it is only love that affects the entire body and moves everyof the body component parts to respond to certain stimuli that is external to the body. Hatred cannot overtake the entire body that way. Ha...