vivian chinaza: I'm also Biafran. I hate this entity called Nigeria with passion. I hate everything she stands for. Yes, Nigeria is a country every child indeed wishes never to be born in. Nigeria is a spade, and I'm calling it a spade. Going through this thread, seeing what she has bred, I know I'm right.

Most of u here claiming to love Nigeria, why did u choose to spend nights at other countries' embassies? Why smuggle yourselves to other countries yet your love for this Nigeria is unwavering? Why marry a woman old enough to be ur grandmother just to have a permanent visa? Yet u love Nigeria? Why do menial jobs most of u will NEVER do in this country in other countries. Why wash oyibo woman pata? Yet u love Nigeria! Hypocrites!

Its only on this site that you people make noise, forgetting that we all know how life abroad is for u guys over there! Una country dey chase una?

vivian chinaza:

, nne I dey o, have been abit busy. How ur side?

Didi_8: Achebe actually succeeded in denigrating the leaders of other tribes while making his own people the best thing that ever happened to Nigeria. This is definitely not the quality for a man who will make a great contribution to the progress of his country. Great men are never divisive characters, especially when it comes to nation building. Achebe definitely misfired in his last book, and he regretted the uproar the book generated. The book even went to the extent of undermining to genuiness of Igbo intelligentia, hagiographically portraying them false story tellers. It is sad that Achebe who wrote 'Things Fall Apart' in 1958 could descend (through his personal frustration with Nigeria) to the level of writing 'There Was a Country' in 2012. I have read the book twice and I know what am talking about. Nigeria is not a perfect country, and Achebe's last book is definitely a badly written book with his intentions best known to him. Achebe should have known that an elder should not be the one to start a war or foment hatred amongst his people. All the same, we cannot kill the dead. May his soul rest in perfect peace.

django1:

What exactly are you saying?
Is it that you don't like people saying they love nigeria ni? Abi you're saying you yourself don't like the country?

vandarsar: The funny thing is you're part and percel of that folklore you see?

Idi.ota, You sidon for Mpumalanga, South Africa dey throw stones of words like your irreplaceable bigot, Asheebee(Asheburuku)

django1:

What exactly are you saying?
Is it that you don't like people saying they love nigeria ni? Abi you're saying you yourself don't like the country?

ItsModella:
anokwam o...I just dey.

Didi_8: Achebe actually succeeded in denigrating the leaders of other tribes while making his own people the best thing that ever happened to Nigeria. This is definitely not the quality for a man who will make a great contribution to the progress of his country. Great men are never divisive characters, especially when it comes to nation building. Achebe definitely misfired in his last book, and he regretted the uproar the book generated. The book even went to the extent of undermining to genuiness of Igbo intelligentia, hagiographically portraying them false story tellers. It is sad that Achebe who wrote 'Things Fall Apart' in 1958 could descend (through his personal frustration with Nigeria) to the level of writing 'There Was a Country' in 2012. I have read the book twice and I know what am talking about. Nigeria is not a perfect country, and Achebe's last book is definitely a badly written book with his intentions best known to him. Achebe should have known that an elder should not be the one to start a war or foment hatred amongst his people. All the same, we cannot kill the dead. May his soul rest in perfect peace.

ilugunboy:

They've been thoroughly poisoned ...they are far too gone in the self-hating. They hate the fact they are Nigerians

vivian chinaza:

Nne eh, ndi iberibe anyi nwere na this nairaland anaghi ekwe mmadu nuo mmiri togbo iko.

vivian chinaza:

And u love being Nigerian abi? Hypocrite! In case you are one of those people claiming to love Nigeria but washing oyinbo woman pata in yankee or Jand, come back, I have enough pata for u to wash and I'd will pay u well. its better for u to be a slave in ur own lovely Nigerian than obodo oyibo o.

ItsModella:
ha ghota ife ne me nu? how many of them gwu cha akwukwu nke ikpazu Achebe de? o fa na koyeli nonsense. Ha nwero respect for onye nwulu anwu.

ilugunboy:


Heheheeeeehee...look at this one!

Apparently you are just coming across my handle on this forum.

You think everybody will be like your menfolks that believe they can only make it in life if they venture out of your erosion ravaged and red sand baren land?

I only come to Europe to spend money during annual vacation. When I come ..

Nigeria is sweet for some of us and can only get sweeter

Didi_8: Achebe actually succeeded in denigrating the leaders of other tribes while making his own people the best thing that ever happened to Nigeria. This is definitely not the quality for a man who will make a great contribution to the progress of his country. Great men are never divisive characters, especially when it comes to nation building. Achebe definitely misfired in his last book, and he regretted the uproar the book generated. The book even went to the extent of undermining to genuiness of Igbo intelligentia, hagiographically portraying them false story tellers. It is sad that Achebe who wrote 'Things Fall Apart' in 1958 could descend (through his personal frustration with Nigeria) to the level of writing 'There Was a Country' in 2012. I have read the book twice and I know what am talking about. Nigeria is not a perfect country, and Achebe's last book is definitely a badly written book with his intentions best known to him. Achebe should have known that an elder should not be the one to start a war or foment hatred amongst his people. All the same, we cannot kill the dead. May his soul rest in perfect peace.

vivian chinaza:


Hahahahahaha, u go to Europe to spend money? Yea, only for NL, na today? Hahahahahahah my friend biko move ur ass to a corner. Ur handle doesn't ring a bell neither do I give a rat's azz.

For ur info, take ur tribally destroyed azz somewhere else, I won't descend to ur level in mere words.

mpumalanga:

I will not call you names even if you choose to be the leader of the folklore gang.
For you information,the pan African youths have decided to continue with Achebe's
good work.So you can come and join if you want to cure yourself.


"The Pan African Youth Union will ensure acclaimed author Chinua Achebe's legacy was imparted to young Africans, it said on Saturday."

http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2013/03/24/pan-african-youth-to-pass-on-achebe-s-legacy

ilugunboy:

You are running late for you third daily job of taking care of children with disability and other invalids...

Go on...ewu Gambia. Hate filled cheap lady..wonder how you people sleep at night with so much bile for other Nigerians in your contaminated system

kettykin: [size=20pt]How Awolowo invented Tribalism and introduced Nepotism into Nigerian Politics[/size]

http://www.dawodu.net/igho.htm

ypzilanti:

Half illiterate with access to computer and internet. Next thing he will as is what Bob Marley's contribution is to Jamicans.

7lives:

So the refusal of the Yoruba to allow Zik become the premier of western region was the reason yorubas are labelled tribalists, wonders shall never end, Yorubas are not subservient to anybody, thank God such nonsense was not allowed to happen, Yorubaland would have probably become another Plateau state by now, Lord have mercy, if protecting my home is tribalism, so be it.

vandarsar: They can continue it for all I care, we all have a hero or heroine, asheebee would never be mine.

But for a society so devoid of role model like South Africa, I think you are right to choose a bigot as a role model.
I valued the words and power of musics of Lucky Philip Dube who you lots murder in cold blood than the pen of Asheebee.

Now don't come telling me Zuma is a hero, you and I know who he is!!!

Now, vamoose into an mpumalanga's forest you bigot

vivian chinaza:

Hahahahahahahaha typical u. Like I said earlier, u are too minute for me to exchange words with. Now run along.

Boss13:
Ok great. I agree with you. I cannot speak for all black people though we share similar problems. I want to talk about the nigerian youth and how to awaken our neglected conciousness.

I appreciate the fact that you carry out community services. In your own bit you are contributing. Soyinka started from the university to raise the awareness of black man. He started as a youth.

Now we have a new kind of enemy and our enemy lives in us. Our enemy is our value system. A system of materialism, selfishness, pride, loathe, greed etc. This value system has given rise to corruption, theft, tribalism/nepotism etc. Previously, I would have said our enemy is our public leaders. But our public leaders were once private citizens. At even some point, many of them critized the govt during their time of the same ill effects we are currently experiencing. So our enemy is not our public leaders.

Shymexx what do you think?

shymexx:

Lmao... Nah, I'm a full illiterate with access to computer and internet... However, Bob Marley actually did a lot for Jamaica - he single-handedly put Jamaica on the map... He fought for Jamaicans with his timeless music and wise words; inspired more than 5 generations of negroes in the struggle; never preached superiority among the maroons and other ethnicities in Jamaica; and he was in the trenches with his people and got his hands dirty with them... Bob Marley was more than a legend - he was an enigma - and people like him only visit this planet once in a life time...

Can you say the same about any Nigerian dead, or alive - apart from Fela Kuti?? (ALL INCLUSIVE)!!!

inufele2:

Rubbish! Why don't you start by condemning your blood thirsty leaders for their aggression and the killings of other sectional leaders? Why don't you blame them for attacking Yorubaland for their so called 'liberation' and the killings of many that resulted due to their greed?
Why don't you blame Ojukwu for dragging you into senseless war? Why don't you blame him for his inability to reach a compromise and swallow his pride to save many from starvation?
Why don't you demand an apology from Ojukwu for abandoning his people in the time if need only to come
back to wine and dine with the enemy? Did Ojukwu lose any if his properties after the civil war? He even got his military pension back, so what is his restitution to his people.
Until you people start to behave like adults and take responsibility for your action ss well as confront the enemy within no one will ever take you serious.

shymexx:

Personally, I think knowledge of self(consciousness); love; and trying to find a balance between our passion for our different tribes/ethnicities and race are the answers...

With knowledge of self, we'll be conscious about who we're and understand that we come from a great race of people who're achievers... So, that will enable us not to settle-for-less and raise the standard high for those we call our heroes and those we emulate...

With love, we'll be able to love one another - love is the answer... Once we start loving ourselves, we won't be take advantage of one another... At the end of the day, we're all in the struggle together - and what binds us all together is greater than the few differences we've... In the larger scheme-of-things, we're all in this mess together - and their earlier we realise that, the better for all of us... Everything wrong with our value system stems from lack of LOVE and knowledge of self...

And finding a balance between our passion for our different tribes/ethnicities and race is what's needed for us to be able to work together as one big family and maintain interoperability among the different ethnic group without animosity... We need to start looking at the bigger picture - which is where we stand in the world as a group... United we stand and divided we fall..