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Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by deomelo: 6:54pm On Dec 25, 2017
1. Nigeria’s foremost novelist Chinua Achebe has claimed that Nigerians,especially of the Hausa/Fulani and the Yoruba stocks, do not like his Igbo ethnic group because of the southeast’s cultural advantage.


2. He traced the origin of “the national resentment of the Igbo” to its culture that “gave the Igbo man an unquestioned advantage over his compatriots in securing credentials for advancement in Nigerian colonial society.


3. He therefore described the Igbo, who are predominantly Catholic, as “fearing no god or man, was “custom-made to grasp the opportunities, such as they were, of the white man’s dispensations. And the Igbo did so with both hands.


4. He delved into history with his claim, asserting that the Igbo overcame the earlier Yoruba advantage within two decades earlier in the twentieth century.

5. Although the Yoruba had a huge historical and geographical head start, the Igbo wiped out their handicap in one fantastic burst of energy in the twenty years between 1930 and 1950.”

6. He narrated the earlier advantage of Yoruba as contingent on their location on the coastline, but once the missionaries crossed the Niger, the Igbo took advantage of the opportunity and overtook the Yoruba.


7. The increase was so exponential in such a short time that within three short decades the Igbos had closed the gap and quickly moved ahead as the group with the highest literacy rate, the highest standard of living, and the greatest of citizens with postsecondary education in Nigeria,” he contended.






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Achebe, however, saved some criticisms for his kinsmen. He criticised them for what he described as “hubris, overweening pride and thoughtlessness, which invite envy and hatred or even worse that can obsess the mind with material success and dispose it to all kinds of crude showiness.”

He added that “contemporary Igbo behavior(that) cab offend by its noisy exhibitionism and disregard for humility and quietness.
= Achebe himself.

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by LordHiffy(m): 6:57pm On Dec 25, 2017
really myopic words, misleading title and also incomplete article

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by LionDeLeo: 7:04pm On Dec 25, 2017
What is wrong with this chinua achebe sef?

So you mean igbo love others and they are hated in return?

Love is the only currency for love.

Even nairaland alone is a clear example. Check every ethnic related thread and see the "love" igbos are dishing out.

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by deomelo: 7:11pm On Dec 25, 2017
Obviosly, needless chest beating and putting other people down is not limited to just the ones on NL, this is a collective and cultural defect across the board.


...but I do understand, he was Ojukwu's propaganda and information minister during the civil war.

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by T9ksy(m): 7:28pm On Dec 25, 2017
LionDeLeo:
What is wrong with this chinua achebe sef?

So you mean igbo love others and they are hated in return?

Love is the only currency for love.

Even nairaland alone is a clear example. Check every ethnic related thread and see the "love" igbos are dishing out.


@ bolded........................Abi o jare!!!


Nigerians "hate" Ibos who in turn just can't help moving their whole families to the regions where they allege the indigenes loathe them and

then shamelessly claim they develop their enemies' region. what is "smart" in developing your neighbours' region whilst yours is fallow?


All around the world,each culture maintains that "charity begins at home" but in ibos case, it begins in their enemies backyard.

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by ImperialYoruba: 7:37pm On Dec 25, 2017
You would think from Achebe's whining that the Igbo of Aguleri love the Igbo of Abriba or that the Igbo of Ngwa love the Igbo of Isuoma.

The Archdiocese of Mbaise has refused to be led by an Archbishop whose origin is Awka and said they will decamp from Catholicism into other denomination of Christianity if their wish for an Mbaise son is not met.

So much for Achebe's Catholic Igbos and love of kin!

Crap!

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by PearlStreet(m): 8:33pm On Dec 25, 2017
Igbos are their own worst enemies. Forget the crap the bitter old toad is saying.

Igbos that hire Hausa and Yoruba mopol to guard them when they're going to visit their fathers compounds in the East. You'll hear stuff like "I don't want an Mbaise man holding a gun near me."

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by ImperialYoruba: 8:48pm On Dec 25, 2017
PearlStreet:
Igbos are their own worst enemies. Forget the crap the bitter old toad is saying.

Igbos that hire Hausa and Yoruba mopol to guard them when they're going to visit their fathers compounds in the East. You'll hear stuff like "I don't want an Mbaise man holding a gun near me."

If he is lucky to be kidnapped at gun point by an Mbaise man or Abakliki man they will sell him for profit.

If he is unfortunate and was kidnapped by Abriba or Ngwa, ok, he will become ngwa ngwa soup that day.

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by ApexPredator: 8:54pm On Dec 25, 2017
We don't give a fck how you feel about Chinua Achebe, the father of modern African literature. The man was an icon, who is looked up to by hundreds of million across the globe and brought great pride to Africa and his people. What he said is no different from what former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger said about Igbos and Nigeria.
“the wandering Jews of West Africa-gifted, aggressive, westernized, at best envied and resented, but mostly despised by their neighbors in the federation”
I guess Henry Kissinger is chest-beating on our behalf. cool

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by Loveijaw: 9:02pm On Dec 25, 2017
ApexPredator:
We don't give a fck how you feel about Chinua Achebe, the father of modern African literature. The man was an icon, who is looked up to by hundreds of million across the globe and brought great pride to Africa and his people. What he said is no different from what former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger said about Igbos and Nigeria.
“the wandering Jews of West Africa-gifted, aggressive, westernized, at best envied and resented, but mostly despised by their neighbors in the federation”
I guess Henry Kissinger is chest-beating on our behalf. cool
Don't mind them!

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by deomelo: 9:19pm On Dec 25, 2017
ApexPredator:
We don't give a fck how you feel about Chinua Achebe, the father of modern African literature. The man was an icon, who is looked up to by hundreds of million across the globe and brought great pride to Africa and his people. What he said is no different from what former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger said about Igbos and Nigeria.
“the wandering Jews of West Africa-gifted, aggressive, westernized, at best envied and resented, but mostly despised by their neighbors in the federation”

I guess Henry Kissinger is chest-beating on our behalf. cool



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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by ImperialYoruba: 9:20pm On Dec 25, 2017
ApexPredator:
We don't give a fck how you feel about Chinua Achebe, the father of modern African literature. The man was an icon, who is looked up to by hundreds of million across the globe and brought great pride to Africa and his people. What he said is no different from what former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger said about Igbos and Nigeria.
“the wandering Jews of West Africa-gifted, aggressive, westernized, at best envied and resented, but mostly despised by their neighbors in the federation”
I guess Henry Kissinger is chest-beating on our behalf. cool

If you dont give a fck why is Achebe whinning?

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by ApexPredator: 9:26pm On Dec 25, 2017
deomelo:




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IPOB Bureau Of Statistics, Abakaliki village directorate HQ.



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When the truth is too much, deny and deflect. I got more from where that came from. cool
ImperialYoruba:


If you dont give a fck why is Achebe whinning?

Chinua Achebe is by the right hand of the Most High and he has been for the past 4yrs. He wrote this piece 5yrs ago . But you know how you Igbo obsessed cretins are on the internet.

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by deomelo: 9:32pm On Dec 25, 2017
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ApexPredator:

When the truth is too much, deny and deflect. I got more from where that came from. cool


Chinua Achebe is by the right hand of the Most High and he has been for the past 4yrs. He wrote this piece 5yrs ago . But you know how you Igbo obsessed cretins are on the internet.
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That loser was just another bigoted, tribalistic, empty, shallow, ignorant and chest beating clown and went to his grave still bitter, angry and crying for nothing.

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by ApexPredator: 9:37pm On Dec 25, 2017
deomelo:
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That loser was just another bigoted, tribalistic, empty, shallow, ignorant and chest beating clown and went to his grave still bitter, angry and crying for nothing.

If Chinua Achebe one of Africa's most accomplished and proudest son is a loser, I wonder what are you? grin Years after his death he is still being honoured by google and world-class publications who could careless about your inconsequential feelings about him. Say it with me, THE FATHER OF MODERN AFRICAN LITERATURE. grin

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by T9ksy(m): 9:42pm On Dec 25, 2017
ApexPredator:

When the truth is too much, deny and deflect. I got more from where that came from. cool


Chinua Achebe is by the right hand of the Most High and he has been for the past 4yrs. He wrote this piece 5yrs ago . But you know how you Igbo obsessed cretins are on the internet.


Says who? you? That's very presumptuous, my dear.

Considering the lies and propaganda that he perpetuated during the war, my conjecture is that he 's weeping and gnashing his lying back-teeth

in the hottest part of hell with that orangutan-lookalike, hollow chest-beating, ruthless, ex-biafran warlord for company.

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by ApexPredator: 9:44pm On Dec 25, 2017
T9ksy:



Says who? you? That's very presumptuous, my dear.

Considering the lies and propaganda that he perpetuated during the war, my conjecture is that he 's weeping and gnashing his lying back-teeth

in the hottest part of hell with that orangutan-lookalike, hollow chest-beating, ruthless, ex-biafran warlord for company.

The truth will always seem like lies and propaganda to the unrighteous and wicked. Afterall, light is incompatible with darkness.

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by T9ksy(m): 9:46pm On Dec 25, 2017
ApexPredator:


[s]The truth will always seem like lies and propaganda to the unrighteous and wicked. Afterall, light is incompatible with darkness.[/s]


What a load of hogwash!

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by Nobody: 9:50pm On Dec 25, 2017
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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by ChimaAgbalajob: 10:00pm On Dec 25, 2017
I know a lot of Nigerians will try to lie that they have no resentment against the Igbo just as part of the self denial problem of Nigeria.

Achebe was a great man of words and i thank God men like him put in writing the problems with Nigeria.

It is left for us to solve them or allow Nigeria to continue drifting while we play ostrich that the problem does not exist.

From the time Achebe wrote those words to today, thousands of Nigerians have perished in Libya and inside Nigeria simply because we chose to deny than tackle the problems. Thousands more will still die as Nigeria continues to be an uninhabitable space for its people.

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by rdokoye: 10:14pm On Dec 25, 2017
ChimaAgbalajob:
I know a lot of Nigerians will try to lie that they have no resentment against the Igbo just as part of the self denial problem of Nigeria.

Achebe was a great man of words and i thank God men like him put in writing the problems with Nigeria.

It is left for us to solve them or allow Nigeria to continue drifting while we play ostrich that the problem does not exist.

From the time Achebe wrote those words to today, thousands of Nigerians have perished in Libya and inside Nigeria simply because we chose to deny than tackle the problems. Thousands more will still die as Nigeria continues to be an uninhabitable space for its people.

They'll lie because it's convenient to do so. Nigerian's don't want to live together, they only live together, because they feel it's in their own best interest to do so. If the North and the West felt they were better off on their own, they would be.

Once the value of oil falls down to nothing, Nigeria will fracture.

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by PDJT: 10:29pm On Dec 25, 2017
Dr. Thomas Sowell of Hoover Institution (Stanford Uni), made the same conclusion about the educational achievement of Igbos in his great books: “Intellectuals and Race” and “Wealth, Poverty and Politics” and how that achievement brought resentment and envy to them from other Tribes in Nigeria, leading to the killing of over 30 thousand Igbos across Nigeria in the 60s, especially in the Northern region. I love my Igbo people. God bless Igbos and God bless Republic of Biafra. Igbo kwenu!!

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by Nobody: 10:32pm On Dec 25, 2017
Great words from a great man.

Achebe was fearless and truthful no matter whose ox is gored .

Go and read his timeless book,The trouble with Nigeria, it is a prophetic book.

Igbos are industrious and enterprising,they do these at a frenetic pace that other ethnic nationalities find difficult to keep up with.

Because, they can not compete, he is then hated for being 'arrogant','mundane','noisy and proud.

ENVY IS THE PRICE EXCELLENCE HAS TO PAY.

THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN MUST SET FORTH AT DAWN

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by PFRB: 10:35pm On Dec 25, 2017
ImperialYoruba:
You would think from Achebe's whining that the Igbo of Aguleri love the Igbo of Abriba or that the Igbo of Ngwa love the Igbo of Isuoma.

The Archdiocese of Mbaise has refused to be led by an Archbishop whose origin is Awka and said they will decamp from Catholicism into other denomination of Christianity if their wish for an Mbaise son is not met.

So much for Achebe's Catholic Igbos and love of kin!

Crap!

Talking what you do not know. The issue in Mbaise is that the procedure was not followed.

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by horsepower101: 10:37pm On Dec 25, 2017
ApexPredator:
We don't give a fck how you feel about Chinua Achebe, the father of modern African literature. The man was an icon, who is looked up to by hundreds of million across the globe and brought great pride to Africa and his people. What he said is no different from what former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger said about Igbos and Nigeria.
“the wandering Jews of West Africa-gifted, aggressive, westernized, at best envied and resented, but mostly despised by their neighbors in the federation”
I guess Henry Kissinger is chest-beating on our behalf. cool

Don't mind them. Igbos have every right to brag about all accomplishments that they have considering everything Nigeria has done to them.

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by horsepower101: 10:41pm On Dec 25, 2017
guterMann:
Great words from a great man.

Achebe was fearless and truthful no matter whose ox is gored .

Go and read his timeless book,The trouble with Nigeria, it is a prophetic book.

Igbos are industrious and enterprising,they do these at a frenetic pace that other ethnic nationalities find difficult to keep up with.

Because, they can not compete, he is then hated for being 'arrogant','mundane','noisy and proud.

ENVY IS THE PRICE EXCELLENCE HAS TO PAY.

THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN MUST SET FORTH AT DAWN




I love your quote " Envy is the price of excellence"

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by ImperialYoruba: 10:43pm On Dec 25, 2017
ApexPredator:

When the truth is too much, deny and deflect. I got more from where that came from. cool


Chinua Achebe is by the right hand of the Most High and he has been for the past 4yrs. He wrote this piece 5yrs ago . But you know how you Igbo obsessed cretins are on the internet.

Why did he write such junk on the eve of his departure? It looks like a confession. He couldnt carry the burden in his heart to the grave and had to offload. Nobody hated him, he hated himself.

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by ImperialYoruba: 10:47pm On Dec 25, 2017
PFRB:


Talking what you do not know. The issue in Mbaise is that the procedure was not followed.

Even after the Archbishop of Nigeria intervend it still wasnt resolved?
Then it went to Vatican and Pope Francis told them to behave, it still wasnt resolved?

Does Mbaise know the process more than the process owner?

Crap! Stop embarassing yourself

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by knowledgeable: 10:48pm On Dec 25, 2017
ChimaAgbalajob:
I know a lot of Nigerians will try to lie that they have no resentment against the Igbo just as part of the self denial problem of Nigeria.

Achebe was a great man of words and i thank God men like him put in writing the problems with Nigeria.

It is left for us to solve them or allow Nigeria to continue drifting while we play ostrich that the problem does not exist.

From the time Achebe wrote those words to today, thousands of Nigerians have perished in Libya and inside Nigeria simply because we chose to deny than tackle the problems. Thousands more will still die as Nigeria continues to be an uninhabitable space for its people.

Do Yorubas understand the magnitude of their hateful incline toward the Igbos, and what that hate can do to them as well?. As they are in the for front of every conspiracy to destroy the Igbos, Igbos have not being involved in such numerous conspiracies like the Yorubas in other to harm/destroy them, not even once. They think the table may never turn against them in this wicked world?.

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by ApexPredator: 10:54pm On Dec 25, 2017
ImperialYoruba:


Why did he write such junk on the eve of his departure? It looks like a confession. He couldnt carry the burden in his heart to the grave and had to offload. Nobody hated him, he hated himself.

You're a very funny way of interpreting things. grin

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by horsepower101: 10:58pm On Dec 25, 2017
knowledgeable:


Do Yorubas understand the magnitude of their hateful incline toward the Igbos, and what that hate can do to them as well?. As they are in the for front of every conspiracy to destroy the Igbos, Igbos have not being involved in such numerous conspiracies like the Yorubas in other to harm/destroy them, not even once. They think the table may never turn against them in this wicked world?.

This century is a century of Igbo awakening. The current generation is finally seeing Nigeria and Nigerians for what it really is. This new consciousness is what is needed to get us to the next level. In the past igbo businesses were terrorized by the Nigerian government, but most igbos saw it then as isolated incidents and didn't do anything. Now this current generation refuse to play that game. Touch one business and everyone joins together in protest.

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Re: Why Nigerians Hate Igbos, By Chinua Achebe. IBS ALART. by deomelo: 10:59pm On Dec 25, 2017
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ApexPredator:


If Chinua Achebe one of Africa's most accomplished and proudest son is a loser, I wonder what are you? grin Years after his death he is still being honoured by google and world-class publications who could careless about your inconsequential feelings about him. Say it with me, THE FATHER OF MODERN AFRICAN LITERATURE. grin
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Ko si Nobel, zero accomplishment apart from tribalism, bigotry, bitterness and hatred he passed on to people like you .

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