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Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by vanbonattel: 10:13pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
emmatok: Gowon has his hands full with the whirlwind his people are reaping after sowing the wind. He backed the wrong horse and now his people are enjoying some deadly romance with his fulani allies in the war. It is easier to confront the yoruba because they are snakes, if a snake comes into your house and a yoruba man enters at the same time, first kill the yoruba man and leave the snake, the yoruba man is much more poisnous than a snake! |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by Nobody: 10:14pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
van bonattel: popular than who? Even in the field of literature, he is yet to achieve what a Yoruba son achieved several years ago-a Nobel Prize! Deal with it. In politics, where were your former leaders? Okueniyan. Is it not the same Finance Minister portifolio that Awolowo controlled during war without borrowing a kobo that Okonjo Iweala is holding but has been a total embarrassment to the whole world? They are even borrowing money to run recurrent expenditure. 1 Like |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by Nobody: 10:16pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
van bonattel: Igbo people put the sea in Lagos. You guys put the seaport in Lagos. I ignore an obvious fool and move ahead. |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by emmatok(m): 10:16pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
van bonattel: See why I said you people are delusional. Is Lagos the only state with access to the sea. Is Lagos the only former capital of Nigeria. Do you think those fake and used goods sold by Ibos matters to Lagos. Lagos was the Industrial hub of Nigeria. Thanks to Awo. |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by Ngodigha: 10:16pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
felifeli:First class monkey, The Igbo have always carried out reprissal attacks on the Hausa-Fulanis, and in those occasions, they are more bloddy. Check out attacks on hausas in Asaba, Oyigbo, Okigwe, Aba, Onitsha etc. But in the Yoruba case, what have they done to the Hausas who kill them every day in Sagamu, Lagos and all over yorugbaland.Idiott. |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by samkoro: 10:18pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
demmy: Is an old news,it hasn't stopped anything.The wise yoruba landlords still rent to igbos cos they pay rents.The yoruba tenant will pay rent this year and beg you th rest of the years. 1 Like |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by asha80(m): 10:18pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
felifeli: funny some guys do not know that there people are also game in the north. |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by Nobody: 10:19pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
Ngodigha: We don't rely on brutal force. We use wisdom. When you speak idiocy, we speak policy. |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by vanbonattel: 10:19pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
Prof Corruption: Soyinka? I respect him for his achievement but the white man must find his writings easier to understand hence the nobel price. I can proudly say that Okigbo was a better writer than soyinka? Okonjo iweala negotiated a debt relief for this useless country after your fathers embezzled the money after the war. It was so easy to be finance minister back then, how many banks did we have then, how many people even knew what a bank was? |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by demmy(m): 10:21pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
van bonattel: This is laughable because according to National Bureau of Statistics poverty is as high as 73% in certain igboid area like Ebonyi. No part of Yoruba have that kind of poverty. Considering you're that poor how the hell are you going to afford to buy up Eko Atlantic? http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/information/details/Ebonyi |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by vanbonattel: 10:21pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
Prof Corruption: you fuul, cant you think? igbo people put the COMMERCE in lagos! |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by vanbonattel: 10:24pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
demmy: Lies, there is no igbo state with that kind of figure, ebonyi produces rice, enough casava to feed the nation and every type of food staple, they are only catching up because the state is new. but ebonyi will beat oshun, ekiti and ondo states in riches anyday. |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by Ngodigha: 10:24pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
Prof Corruption:Dude, only Anambra/Anioma people will push you to the sea and not the entire Igbo nation. Try it. |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by vanbonattel: 10:25pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
Prof Corruption: copy and paste, is your brain failing you copy and paste, is your brain failing you |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by Nobody: 10:25pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
van bonattel: can Achebe compose a compound complex sentence? Read Achebe books, they are full of one sentence structure. Have you read Soyinka's The Man Died? It's a great piece of work that every reasonable fellow should possess. Oyinbo man is not a fool. They know intelligence can not be sustained on copy and paste. Who gave Iweala the approval to negotiate Debt relief? OBJ. When OBJ was done with her, he pushed the fat a$$ in Foreign Ministry? It's only a clueless GEJ that's recycling OBJs dead woods-Okupe, Okonjo et al. I ignore an obvious fool and move ahead. Where is Okigbo? Killed in action during Biafra war. |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by Nobody: 10:28pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
van bonattel: I almost fainted! When did the first Igbo man cross the niger and arrived in Lagos? I ignore an obvious fool and move ahead. |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by Nobody: 10:29pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
van bonattel: You type the same nonsense again and again no wonder you get same response repeatedly. yeah, you speak idiocy, I speak policy |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by vanbonattel: 10:30pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
Prof Corruption: Thank you for exposing soyinka, he was writing for the white man to read while achebe made sure our people understood him. Who negotiated the debt relief was the question and not who gave the approval? The yoruba are good at stealing the glory of others but we know what happened. |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by Nobody: 10:31pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
van bonattel: Oh God rice! That's part of commerce the brought to Lagos. Fooools. |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by vanbonattel: 10:32pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
Prof Corruption: before the likes of your bush men from ogun and oyo knew where lagos was located, check the land ownership stats and the population |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by vanbonattel: 10:33pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
Prof Corruption: Yes, the local rice with brown look very rich in vitamins and not your Tai rice |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by Nobody: 10:34pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
van bonattel: What a completely certified fool? An author who write a great piece of book is destined to win awards. Nothing a shallow metricious mediocre book full of copy and paste proverbs that is being overly hyped here and there. Can you negotiate without approval foooooooool? You are not bright. |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by demmy(m): 10:34pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
Prof Corruption: Don't mind the fools. |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by Nobody: 10:36pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
van bonattel: I was begged repeatedly by my Igbo chic, a spoil of war of course, to buy one in Miami the other day. We couldn't eat it. We gave it to my cat. You can't believe it, Kiki rejected the nonsense. |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by felifeli: 10:37pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
van bonattel: You mean Ofada rice ? Ofada is just a few kilometers from Lagos by the way . |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by Akshow: 10:37pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
Achebe is a bitter, pitiable, senile, crippled old man. Dont blame him too much, he had to Get the bitterness of decades off his chest b4 e dies. with such bitterness i Imagine it will be soon. Terrible unforgivin retarded old man. |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by vanbonattel: 10:38pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
Prof Corruption: Achebe also won awards and is still being begged to come take up some more, his books are classics and you are impotent to that fact Without Okonjo iweala, you would still be in debt, obj is a leper in international finance circles, you are a big fat foooooooool |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by Yujin(m): 10:38pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
Wow, the thread has gotten to its ninth page already. Well, Awolowo has long gone I believe with regrets. Those who supported/are supporting the role he played during the civil war will reap the commensurate fruits thereof. Achebe was specific on the person of Awo and not on the entire Yorubas. Those wishing the Igbos to 'just forget about the genocidal war and move on' are dreaming. The bombing of markets, hospitals, schools among other civillian settlements exposed the real intentions of the then nigerian government. We are about 2million+ souls and not animals here. The policies that suceeded the war convinced the remaining Igbos who were in doubt of the evil intentions of their supposed fellow compatriots that they are struggle for survive even if it means denying your people and changing the names of your communities. The damage was too much. Thank God God does not sleep nor slumber. Without appropriate apologies and compensation(justice), a united nigeria would be impossible. Those spewing venom on the Yoruba should know that the action of a few evil Yoruba elites is not enough to see the Yorubas as enemies. Do not forget honourable men of conscience like Fajuyi, Pa Adesanya, Soyinka and many others who spoke and acted against injustice when it mattered. I do understand the pains of seeing your fellow southern christians showing no concern over your feelings but you must know that the Yorubas are peaceful unlike the murderous Hausa/Fulanis(the main problem of nigeria). With more innocent blood accumulating in the north courtesy northern muslims(boko haram), it is not yet uhuru until a rematch is played. All avenues shall be employed. He that has ears let him hear. |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by emmatok(m): 10:38pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
van bonattel: Ha, do you know the meaning of commerce at all. Thank God to those Shopping malls(kingsway, leventis e.t.c) you destroyed with you fake petty traded are coming back. |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by Nobody: 10:38pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
Akshow: Achebe is a bitter, pitiable, senile, crippled old man. Dont blame him too much, he had to Get the bitterness of decades off his chest b4 e dies. with such bitterness i Imagine it will be soon. Terrible unforgivin retarded old man. Finally, I see one good comment since morning. Thanks bros. |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by vanbonattel: 10:39pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
felifeli: Ofada rice is in ogun, abakaliki rice is in ebonyi, abi you wan steal them glory like your fathers always do? |
Re: Achebe’s Biafra Memoir Stirs Controversy by Nobody: 10:41pm On Oct 06, 2012 |
van bonattel: Classic my a$$? I ignore an obvious fool and move ahead. |
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