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Why The Igbo Almost Always Ends Up With The Short End Of The Stick. by zoedew: 6:42am On Mar 14, 2023
Baba Chinua Achebe famously said concerning the Igbo:
“I will be the first to concede that the Igbo as a group is not without its flaws. Its success can and did carry deadly penalties: the dangers of hubris, overweening pride, and thoughtlessness, which invite envy and hatred or, even worse, than can obsess the mind with material success and dispose it to all kinds of crude showiness. There is no doubt at all that there is a strand in contemporary Igbo behavior that can offend by its noisy exhibitionism and disregard for humility and quietness.”
So long as the Igbo fail to deal with the above problem they will have problems of acceptance EVERYWHERE!

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Re: Why The Igbo Almost Always Ends Up With The Short End Of The Stick. by mployer(m): 6:49am On Mar 14, 2023
Igbos has no problem of acceptance.

SS and NC voted Igbo man.

NE and NW don't vote christian, it's not a tribe thing.

Yoruba is plain envious of Igbo.
Re: Why The Igbo Almost Always Ends Up With The Short End Of The Stick. by zoedew: 7:00am On Mar 14, 2023
mployer:
Igbos has no problem of acceptance.

SS and NC voted Igbo man.

NE and NW don't vote christian, it's not a tribe thing.

Yoruba is plain envious of Igbo.
Then you do not know or well appreciate the Yoruba. The Yoruba has little issues with envy largely because he has no scruples requesting for you to please share with him what you have but which he lacks.
It will appear you, just like Aloy Ejimakor, do not understand what Baba Achebe said above. Deal with that and you are good to go! The South Africans are jealous of the Igbo as well? Learn and bring up the next generation of Igbo to be humble and respectful of their neighbours. It will save the Igbo from the victim mentality that plague the Igbo everywhere they go. Pride always precedes a fall. Watch the next Saturday elections!

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Re: Why The Igbo Almost Always Ends Up With The Short End Of The Stick. by mployer(m): 7:05am On Mar 14, 2023
zoedew:

Then you do not know or well appreciate the Yoruba. The Yoruba has little issues with envy largely because he has no scruples requesting for you to please share with him what you have but which he lacks.
It will appear you, just like Aloy Ejimakor, do not understand what Baba Achebe said above. Deal with that and you are good to go! The South Africans are jealous of the Igbo as well? Learn and bring up the next generation of Igbo to be humble and respectful of their neighbours. It will save the Igbo from the victim mentality that plague the Igbo everywhere they go. Pride always precedes a fall. Watch the next Saturday elections!

It's known fact that south Africans are envious of Nigerians.

Successful people are envied everywhere in the world, You guys hate doesn't move me anymore.

You keep opening threads about Igbo, no Igbo opens thread about Yoruba
Re: Why The Igbo Almost Always Ends Up With The Short End Of The Stick. by Ever8090: 7:06am On Mar 14, 2023
mployer:
Igbos has no problem of acceptance.

SS and NC voted Igbo man.

NE and NW don't vote christian, it's not a tribe thing.

Yoruba is plain envious of Igbo.
you just proved the statement right sir,.
Re: Why The Igbo Almost Always Ends Up With The Short End Of The Stick. by mployer(m): 7:07am On Mar 14, 2023
Ever8090:
you just proved the statement right sir,.

You are daft.
Re: Why The Igbo Almost Always Ends Up With The Short End Of The Stick. by Ever8090: 9:08am On Mar 14, 2023
mployer:


You are daft.
idiatu
Re: Why The Igbo Almost Always Ends Up With The Short End Of The Stick. by zoedew: 12:01pm On Mar 14, 2023
mployer:


You are daft.
Better Sir, to say you disagree with the response .
Re: Why The Igbo Almost Always Ends Up With The Short End Of The Stick. by pressplay411(m): 4:46am On May 12, 2023
zoedew:
Baba Chinua Achebe famously said concerning the Igbo:
“I will be the first to concede that the Igbo as a group is not without its flaws. Its success can and did carry deadly penalties: the dangers of hubris, overweening pride, and thoughtlessness, which invite envy and hatred or, even worse, than can obsess the mind with material success and dispose it to all kinds of crude showiness. There is no doubt at all that there is a strand in contemporary Igbo behavior that can offend by its noisy exhibitionism and disregard for humility and quietness.”
So long as the Igbo fail to deal with the above problem they will have problems of acceptance EVERYWHERE!

I have so much to share with the broken igbo.
It is not any tribe or nation that is fighting the igbos.
It is God himself.

It is a sad and fearful thing when God, our loving father fights some one, talk less of a nation/tribe/people.

The earlier igbos reaalise this, the earlier their salvation, deliverance and restoration.

It's painful to watch a great people suffer.
It's a similitude of watching Israel as a nation suffer.

May God Almighty have mercy and deliver us all.
Because the word of God is true and faithful- God
resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.

Every individual and every nation has some element of pride and we are all meant to grow in humility.
But until one comes to this knowledge, they are blinded to the fact.

May God unveil us and deliver us all in Jesus name. Amen
Re: Why The Igbo Almost Always Ends Up With The Short End Of The Stick. by zoedew: 6:34am On May 12, 2023
pressplay411:


I have so much to share with the broken igbo.
It is not any tribe or nation that is fighting the igbos.
It is God himself.

It is a sad and fearful thing when God, our loving father fights some one, talk less of a nation/tribe/people.

The earlier igbos reaalise this, the earlier their salvation, deliverance and restoration.

It's painful to watch a great people suffer.
It's a similitude of watching Israel as a nation suffer.

May God Almighty have mercy and deliver us all.
Because the word of God is true and faithful- God
resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.

Every individual and every nation has some element of pride and we are all meant to grow in humility.
But until one comes to this knowledge, they are blinded to the fact.

May God unveil us and deliver us all in Jesus name. Amen
You were bullseye 🎯! Amen!!

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