It is a figurative statement. The ancestors of a certain family unit in Africa (Arochukwu, to be precise) raised the dust through the worship of the most popular heathen deity in Igbo land, Ibinu Ukpabi (or Long Juju), and through the organization of the Aro Confederacy, an organized mafia cult under the auspices of Long Juju, through which slave trade flourished. But Uzo Ogbonna, a Christian convert, was determined to see to the destruction of the Long Juju shrine and its cult of human sacrifice, of which his father, Mazi Ogbonna, was a staunch member. Little did Uxo know that the British authorities would soon launch an insurgency campaign towards the destruction of the shrine. This led to the Anglo-Aro War (1900-1901) which was fought between British soldiers and the Eze-Aro's warriors. The British, with their sophisticated arsenal, won the war, after which Mazi Ogbonna and other notorious Long Juju cultists were brought to face a tribunal and was later sentenced to death by hanging.