The Igbo Spirit
By Peter Alexander Egom
I am of the Igbo stock from Ukala-Okpunor in Oshimili North LGA of Delta State. I am 61 years of age and have from late 1965, during my undergraduate days at Downing College, Cambridge, England, been fascinated by my people, the Igbo, and specifically by what makes them such a pulsating enigma of a people.
It was, indeed, a chance remark by the late and distinguished scholar in Social Anthropology at Cambridge, Professor Meyer Fortes, which set me on my lifelong journey of private enquiry into the ethno-spiritual makeup of the Igbo. My then larger-than-life and boon companion was my fellow undergraduate at the Cambridge University faculty for Archaeology and Anthropology, Mallam Ibrahim Tahir of BBC Bush House fame. As was our wont, we were on this particular autumn afternoon having tea at a teashop that was just across Ibrahim's King's College when our Professor in Social Anthropology, Meyer Fortes, walked in and sat with us for a chat. One thing led to another and we soon found ourselves discussing ethno-types in Africa.
Professor Fortes had been one of the bright lights in Lord Bailey's team of Africanists that did the regular tome of Africa Survey for the British Foreign and Colonial Office. And Professor Fortes told us that, according to Lord Bailey, the Igbo, out of the legion of African ethnic groups they studied, were the least encumbered with any cultural baggage. In a manner of speaking, the Igbo come light and go light with the baggage of culture.
Of course, Professor Fortes assumed that Ibrahim and myself knew what Lord Bailey meant with the concept of cultural baggage and did not venture into any explanation of it. But as soon as he took his leave of us, Ibrahim and myself fell to a very passionate but friendly discussion of this hazy concept. And, if my memory serves me right, we eventually let the matter be without agreeing on what the concept of cultural baggage stands for. But there was something, which my mind could not let be after this encounter. I had to know more about my people, the Igbo, who come light and go light with the baggage of culture.
My lecturer in Social Anthropology at Cambridge, Mr. G. 1. Jones an ex-colonial administrator in the Eastern Region of Nigeria, and an Igbophil of sorts, was on hand to give me advice on where to find materials on the Igbo. And what I could glean from the diverse tomes of Igbo historical and ethnographical that came my way was this. There was no love lost between the European slave-dealers and colonialists and the Igbo either on the continent of Africa or in the Diaspora. Igbo slaves were difficult to handle, prone to rebellion and bad for the economy of the slave-owner. And, the fear of the Igbo was, in a manner of speaking, the beginning of economic wisdom among European slave-owners and, later, colonialists.
The Igbo was a troublemaker and a troubleshooter in bondage as one saw in Haiti in the rebellious years leading up to the overthrow of the French and the independence of the island in 1805 and in the Southern States of North America where Igbo slaves jumped into the sea rather than face slavery! So, the Igbo were bad news as a slave. And in the restricted freedom of colonial Nigeria, as the colonialists saw to their continued irritation, the Igbo was uppity, difficult to convince and difficult to lead. He was never really the darling of the mandarins of the British Foreign and Colonial Office at Whitehall, London!
But, all of the above was what European predators thought about the Igbo! I was not satisfied with it. I wanted to know what made the Igbo uppity, difficult to convince and difficult to lead in the restricted freedom of colonial Nigeria and what made him a troublemaker and troubleshooter in the bondage of slavery abroad. I simply wanted to touch the Igbo spirit in order to better understand who I am. And the books I read then in England could not lead me anywhere in this direction. And so I shelved the project of my search for the essential attributes of the Igbo without knowing whether I would ever come back to it.
But, did I really shelve this project? Not at all. For what I failed to realize at this time in Cambridge is that I had begun a lifelong journey of an inquiry into my essential, I as a member of the Igbo stock and that this project could never be shelved until the very day I died. Indeed, my search for what makes the Igbo what he is is my search for my true identity as a full-blooded Igbo. There is no way my mind could rest the matter as soon as it had embarked upon its search. So, what I do now see, in retrospect, is that my mind has been, for nearly four decades now, trying to put a tangible structure to the Igbo spirit. And what I do give in this brief write-up is my status report on what I think makes the Igbo what he is as a man of vision, mission, adventure, integrity and compassion. But, before I embark upon this my brief ode to the Igbo spirit, let me fill in the reader with a few titbits about my life after going down from Cambridge in June 1966.
My flight back to Nigeria was scheduled for that blighting day of July 29 1966 and had to be shelved until August 4 1966. I made it to Lagos on that day and came to see a Nigeria that was calm on the surface but was doing unspeakable horror and mayhem to the Igbo in Lagos, at Ibadan and all over Northern Nigeria. But I never felt that I was in danger and went about Lagos without any fear for my life. And in so doing I came to catch an instructive glimpse into the mind of the Igbo.
The heavens were about to fall upon him and even the ground he stood upon was giving way under him. Yet, he did not panic. He reacted with bone-chilling firmness and maturity. Kai, was I happy to be an Igbo? Save, for the Roman Catholic Church, the Igbo had no friends at home or abroad. This is what I saw with my own eyes in Lagos from August 4 1966 until July 18 1967 when I was taken into a seven month detention spell at Ikoyi and Kirikiri prisons and mercifully kept out of harm's way in the hands of my fellow countrymen. And after my release from detention on March 14 1968, I bolted for Europe on April 18 1968.
I spent the ensuing fourteen years in Denmark and Tanzania teaching social anthropology, reading and teaching economics and doing research in economics. But in late 1982, nature and culture reached out to me in Denmark and brought me back to Nigeria for keeps. And on my coming back to Nigeria, what I saw, after twelve years of the end on January 15 1970 of the Biafran hostilities, was as marveling to me as it was encouraging. The Igbo, my people, were back into the mainstream of the Nigerian socio political and economic life as if nothing had occurred between 1966 and 1970.1 was happy to be back to Nigeria and I have no desire whatsoever to ever leave Nigeria again for anywhere else. Why so? Because the Igbo spirit is the future of Nigeria.
The Igbo spirit is not a conquering spirit, an imperial spirit or an exploiting spirit. The Igbo spirit is an Afro centric spirit, a competitive spirit, a liberating spirit and a spirit that restores. In fact, the Igbo spirit is the quintessential IslamoChristian spirit of the common good as one finds in the holy books of the Quran and the Bible. Thus, the Igbo spirit thrives and lives by the democratic ethic of one for all and all for one.
This is the liberating and restoring spirit that is about to encompass Nigeria and to take her to great heights of material and social plenty and of individual freedoms. And there is nothing anyone anywhere on this earth or in the heavens can do to stop this Igbo spirit from encompassing and elevating Nigerians and the black race as a whole. For the matter has long been settled in the highest heavens, the abode of God Almighty.
So, it is quite understandable that the Igbo must go through, as they are doing today, the harassment and chicanery of the sworn enemies of light and of the liberation and restoration of the black race. The Igbo spirit is the bearer of light and where light comes, darkness must disappear. So what we are experiencing in Nigeria today is the era of pitch-darkness, which must precede the dawn of freedom and plenty. In fact, what we are witnessing in Nigeria today, with the Igbo bearing the full brunt of it, are the thrashing death-throes of an old and uncaring dinosaur of a Nigeria of the ungodly where local slave dealers have unleashed, on behalf of their old European slave-dealing puppet-masters, a culture of impunity and lawlessness on all Nigerians and especially on the Igbo. But it will not last. This is simply so because the 21St century is the century of the African and the Igbo are in the forefront of the war for the economic liberation and empowerment of the black race. This is what makes the Igbo spirit the ethical template of the future for the common good of all Nigerians and every black person.
What then are the attributes of the Igbo spirit? One, it is God-fearing and God loving. Two, it is democratic to the core. And three, it is private enterprise write large. The Igbo puts God Almighty at the center of his sociopolitical and economic life and this is what explains why he is so fiercely democratic and so competitively entrepreneurial but so passionately communal to the core.
So, the Igbo spirit is not about the ethnic subjugation of one group by the other. Rather, it is about the opening up of equal vents of opportunities for the small as for the medium size and for the big, for the weak as for the half-weak and the strong.
It was, indeed, this very stark and unmistakable difference between the Eurocentric spirit of oppression and enslavement that rules Nigeria today and the Afro centric Igbo spirit of liberation and restoration which will rule Nigeria tomorrow that I had in mind when I wrote as follows on pages xviii and xix of the Preface to my book of 2002, "Globalization at the Crossroads: Capitalism or Communalism? "
"Consequently, the centre is extremely attractive to any budding ethnic politician in Nigeria. For, they are all ethnic politicians. It is there at the centre that the financial and fiscal power of Nigeria is concentrated. So, every ethnic politician wants to get to the imperial centre at all costs. And when he eventually gets there, he wants to keep the imperial reins of Nigeria's financial and fiscal power within his ethnic bailiwick for all time and at all costs. It is an ethnic winner-take-all affair where only the ruthless and the idolatrous survive.
"However, we do want a Nigeria that has ample room for all of us. This Nigeria must deal, even handedly and fairly, with all of us no matter the physical size of our persons or the purported numerical strength of our ethnic origins. Equal representation and participation for all of us shall be the whole of the law. Thus, each and everyone of us, individuals and groups, who belong to Nigeria must be allowed to use our native and achieved financial, human and material resources for our private good and for the common good..."
But the reigning Eurocentric spirit of oppression and enslavement in Nigeria today is the sworn enemy of democracy. This is so because it puts Mammon, instead of God Almighty, at the centre of the socio economic and political life of the Nigerian. This is the source and sustainer of the culture of impunity and lawlessness, which pervades all levels of governance in Nigeria today. For where Mammon is in charge, do what thou wilt is the God-hating and God-baiting whole of the law. Fortunately, however, the Afrocentric Igbo spirit which seeks to put God Almighty first in the thoughts, words and deeds of the Nigerian, is, most certainly, around the corner to consign this Eurocentric spirit of the congenital blighter, the cowardly scourge of the Nigerian and the black race, back to the pit of hell where it belongs.
Therefore, the Igbo in Nigeria have nothing to fear but fear itself. They should always bear it in mind that to whom a lot is given, a considerable much is expected in return. God Almighty has blessed them with the knowledge of the financial and industrial ways and means of turning sand into gold. It is their duty to open up and spread this knowledge among their ethnic neighbors in the near and far beyond of Africa in order to forge such an ever widening and concentric wave of financial solidarity among different ethnic groups in Nigeria and Africa, that will empower each African ethnic group to yield its best of social and industrial products for the common good of all Africans and to the glory of God Almighty.
In fact, the true social message of the Igbo spirit for the Nigerian in particular and for the black race in general comes straight from the Catholic Social Teaching and more specifically from St. Paul's 2 Corinthians 8: 1315 and St. Peter's 1 Peter 4:10 as follows: Financial solidarity among Nigerians and Africans leads to the industrial subsidiary of each Nigerian and each African. This is what the dividend of democracy is essentially about. It is the enabling environment to dream dreams and to see one's dreams work out in practice in one's lifetime. And this social message that allows the zillion flowers of entrepreneurial excellence to bloom in Nigeria and in Africa as a whole is the essential social ethic of Islam as in Qur'an 16:90 al'adl walihsan. Hence, the Igbo spirit is the IslamoChristian ethic for the economic liberation and restoration of man in Africa and beyond.
Consequently, the Igbo in Nigeria and in the Diaspora should take heart and continue to put all before the Throne of Grace. For their past and current tormentors, both Eurocentric and local, are just but a passing storm in a God-baiting and God-taunting teacup. Uyagami!
* Peter Alexander Ashikiwe Adione Egom, the Legendary “Motor-Park Economist”, wrote this article before he died on March 3, 2013, aged 70.

Like I said before, Enu- ani people are always proudly Igbo.

Nice article.

Nwannem

Africa will rise the day Biafra flag is raised never to come down. The rise of that flag will mark the end of colonial and neocolonial dominance in Africa. Biafra, Nigeria and other African countries will breath fresh air of freedom. Right now Africa is in bondage. You see how they termed Igbo slaves during slave trade as troublesome because they said no to slavery.

Igbos are sleeping giants that must wake up one day. Whites know this and my black folks too can attest to this, even though we have some black connies who would want the status quo to remain in order to keep meaduring dick with us.



Igbo giants will rule the world someday.

Hmmmmm

I am simply humbled! The sun must surely rise again!

" God Almighty has blessed them with the knowledge of the financial and industrial ways and means of turning sand into gold. It is their duty to open up and spread this knowledge among their ethnic neighbors in the near and far beyond of Africa in order to forge such an ever widening and concentric wave of financial solidarity among different ethnic groups in Nigeria and Africa, that will empower each African ethnic group to yield its best of social and industrial products for the common good of all Africans and to the glory of God Almighty."



The Igbo spirit is not a conquering spirit, an imperial spirit or an exploiting spirit. The Igbo spirit is an Afro centric spirit, a competitive spirit, a liberating spirit and a spirit that restores.


What then are the attributes of the Igbo spirit? One, it is God-fearing and God loving. Two, it is democratic to the core. And three, it is private enterprise write large. The Igbo puts God Almighty at the center of his sociopolitical and economic life and this is what explains why he is so fiercely democratic and so competitively entrepreneurial but so passionately communal to the core.
So, the Igbo spirit is not about the ethnic subjugation of one group by the other. Rather, it is about the opening up of equal vents of opportunities for the small as for the medium size and for the big, for the weak as for the half-weak and the strong.
It was, indeed, this very stark and unmistakable difference between the Eurocentric spirit of oppression and enslavement that rules Nigeria today and the Afro centric Igbo spirit of liberation and restoration

Fact of life


Humilitypays and Mrvitalis, this is why I believe Biafra will stand if Nigeria is not restructured to favour everyone.

Igbos are ordained to liberate Africa and no amount of Buhari's anti Igbo stand will stop the Igbos in fulfilling Christ mission of heavenly salvation and earthly blessings.

It's that same spirit that guides us to the path of self determination, at least to absorb our full potential.

What is destroying the igbo spirit

Is when we allowed the outsiders influence us.

We left our ingenuity and started seeking for power in Abuja.

Forgetting that nobody has benefitted from Power in Abuja.

It's only a delusion that lazy and unambitious mofos use to gratify there stupidity.

If it were to be so, the North would've been the most developed region in this country.

After obasanjo 8 yrs,can you point to anything tangible the SW benefitted from him?

GEJ 6 yrs, what did bayelsa benefit?


Ps mi brothers, let's go back to US.

When we do things in our own way and terms.

It's time we think home. Ad harness our in born talents.

Ogadimma!

[b] Here is how Father Joe, one of the Irish Rev. Fathers who worked in Igbo land for a long time and stayed in Biafra throughout the Biafra-Nigeria War, described the Ibo (Igbo) to a team of reporters from Life Magazine in 1968: “Life (Magazine) has been dispatching teams to Biafra since June 1968, and now September, the beginning of the hot season, was on hand, we noticed a profound change. Wherever we went, people tugged at our sleeves and held out their hands, hoping for a coin, a cigarette, or a kola nut. This begging was altogether new.” “The Iboman never begs.” Father Joe said. “He's much too proud, he wants to pay for what he gets. The Ibos are wizards at saving money. When one of them gets a job, he starts saving right away; first for a bicycle, then a transistor radio, and next a bit of land. Then he builds a house on it, gets a wife and before the first child is born, he is already putting money by for the kid's school fees. The Ibos are mad for education.” He continued, “Ach, you should have known the Ibo before the war, shrewd, clannish, competitive – exasperating and proud. Some called them the Jews of Africa and others said they were as bad as the Irish, and I'd consider it a compliment either way. You know that we Holy Ghost Fathers all ran schools here before the war? The way we played on the Iboman's competitive instinct was absolutely shameless.” “What kind of parish is this? I would say to the elders. The school of the other village has an upstairs – Ibo talk for a second story – so they'd build me an upstairs and then I'd say, how can I be the Father here? There is a village not five miles from here that has a primary school and a secondary school as well. Do you expect me to spend the rest of my life rotting in a village that has no secondary school? So, up would go the new school and then I'd really put the screws to them: There is a settlement down Owerri-way that sent one of their boys to a university in Europe. Wouldn't it be a grand thing to have a university graduate of our own? And by God, somehow the village would scrimp and save until they had one: All that seems a long time ago now.” The determination and resourcefulness that once characterized the Ibo also preoccupied Father Joe. We were driving out for a last look at Emekuku Hospital when Father Joe remarked: “There was a time when it was impossible to have a car breakdown in Iboland. You'd find yourself stuck somewhere way out in the bush and first thing you know, three loafers – two of whom had probably never peeked under the bonnet of an auto in their lives – would saunter up to see what was the matter. In no time at all using rags and string they'd have you on your way again.” Father Joe shook our hands before we boarded the flight out through the flak and said, “Remember now: however this thing is settled militarily, somehow, somewhere, something called Biafra will continue to exist.”(Breadless Biafra). This is the Igbo the world used to know and which has been destroyed by Nigeria. [/b]

http://m.modernghana.com/news/415203/1/self-determination-for-the-igbo-and-all-easterners.html

The Igbo Race is truly blessed...Proud to be one weather good or bad.

God bless all Igbo struggling all over the world.

Read this yesterday and was awestruck. We have been sleeping for way too long, it's time to arise.

EternalTruths:
" God Almighty has blessed them with the knowledge of the financial and industrial ways and means of turning sand into gold. It is their duty to open up and spread this knowledge among their ethnic neighbors in the near and far beyond of Africa in order to forge such an ever widening and concentric wave of financial solidarity among different ethnic groups in Nigeria and Africa, that will empower each African ethnic group to yield its best of social and industrial products for the common good of all Africans and to the glory of God Almighty."



The Igbo spirit is not a conquering spirit, an imperial spirit or an exploiting spirit. The Igbo spirit is an Afro centric spirit, a competitive spirit, a liberating spirit and a spirit that restores.


What then are the attributes of the Igbo spirit? One, it is God-fearing and God loving. Two, it is democratic to the core. And three, it is private enterprise write large. The Igbo puts God Almighty at the center of his sociopolitical and economic life and this is what explains why he is so fiercely democratic and so competitively entrepreneurial but so passionately communal to the core.
So, the Igbo spirit is not about the ethnic subjugation of one group by the other. Rather, it is about the opening up of equal vents of opportunities for the small as for the medium size and for the big, for the weak as for the half-weak and the strong.
It was, indeed, this very stark and unmistakable difference between the Eurocentric spirit of oppression and enslavement that rules Nigeria today and the Afro centric Igbo spirit of liberation and restoration

Fact of life


Humilitypays and Mrvitalis, this is why I believe Biafra will stand if Nigeria is not restructured to favour everyone.

Igbos are ordained to liberate Africa and no amount of Buhari's anti Igbo stand will stop the Igbos in fulfilling Christ mission of heavenly salvation and earthly blessings.

Yes we ibos are smart jobs doubt but we are looking foolish by our approach to Biafra.. That's my stand.. This approach has never worked in history

DeleteNonsense:
Africa will rise the day Biafra flag is raised never to come down. The rise of that flag will mark the end of colonial and neocolonial dominance in Africa. Biafra, Nigeria and other African countries will breath fresh air of freedom. Right now Africa is in bondage. You see how they termed Igbo slaves during slave trade as troublesome because they said no to slavery.

Well said. That's why they vowed Igbo will never rule this country because they know Igbos won't let any foreign power dictate for us how to run our country. Fairness, equality and ingenuity will be the order of the day! Ojukwu problem during the civil war was that he refused to be a stooge of any foreign country, and that angered them to to support Nigeria. Don't also forget Igboland was the last place that fell to colonial whites in present day Nigeria. It took 12 yr war, and Britaiin has never forgiven Igbos for that; just like the western power has never forgiven Haiti for what it did to France. Haiti is still paying till today!

DeleteNonsense:
Africa will rise the day Biafra flag is raised never to come down. The rise of that flag will mark the end of colonial and neocolonial dominance in Africa. Biafra, Nigeria and other African countries will breath fresh air of freedom. Right now Africa is in bondage. You see how they termed Igbo slaves during slave trade as troublesome because they said no to slavery.

But we keep running to seek the help of the West to conduct referendum for us?

Igboid:
[b]
http://m.modernghana.com/news/415203/1/self-determination-for-the-igbo-and-all-easterners.html

Powerful! When I read colonial books; I have read over 4 of them and one thing is constant...they spoke highly of Igbos.

Nkem4040:


Powerful! When I read colonial books; I have read over 4 of them and one thing is constant...they spoke highly of Igbos.

Exactly. They all separated us from the Arewa-Odua people.

Igboid:


Exactly. They all separated from the Arewa-Odua people.

Pazienza, Odua are not responsible for your pathetic life and ugliness, you are frustrated and cant stop screaming Odua everywhere like a choked monkey. I know you have no shame, hold your parent responsible and stop blaming others for your misfortune.

Another chest beating thread for losers and people that suffer from low self-esteem.

mrvitalis:

Yes we ibos are smart jobs doubt but we are looking foolish by our approach to Biafra.. That's my stand.. This approach has never worked in history

Stop this nonsense "we ibos" I have told you time without numbers to locate your origin. Biafra is last hope for Africa. No matter how the approach to restore it goes it's unnecessary, the most important thing is it restored and both Nigeria and African nations is safe from neocolonial and colonial dominance. Oyibo man hate IGBO is because igbo man said no to slavery. The day Nigerians and Africans realize that holding Biafra in Nigeria is holding themselves that day Africa will be liberated. "Mod" please spare me Africa need liberation.

mrvitalis:

But we keep running to seek the help of the West to conduct referendum for us?

Because the blue print Oyibo left before going back is to Africa detriment. They need to get involved and right wrongs of 1914.

victorvezx:
Another chest beating thread for losers and people that suffer from low self-esteem.

Young man! For the first time in forever, stop and think. This piece was written by a respectable, well read and travelled person and he put these down through his personal research aa well as perceptions, evidence and experience gleaned over time. This was written about the Igbo! History today is as is researched and recorded for posterity and this represents a confirmation of every part of Igbo history as we know it.

In other words, it is pure undiluted fact! Now u are not Igbo and no one begrudges u that. Igbos have no choice but to be Igbo same way u have no choice but to be yoruba. When u see facts like these, the proper thing for u to do is develop some thirst for knowledge about ur own people, put out ur own findings as verifiable facts if u like and that will be that. No drama or rancour. If u don't care to do so, that's ur own kettle of fish and no one cares cos no one will do it for u.

Now d Igbo man will never roll over and play dead; he celebrates his accomplishment proudly because he has paid d price and won the prize! Do same for urself. If it is not in ur nature then please live ur reality but don't begrudge others theirs. It is not everything u denigrate and yap crap about like a programmed robot that knows nothing else to do.

Stop and think! It'll help u.

kenny987:


Young man! For the first time in forever, stop and think. This piece was written by a respectable, well read and travelled person and he put these down through his personal research aa well as perceptions, evidence and experience gleaned over time. This was written about the Igbo! History today is as is researched and recorded for posterity and this represents a confirmation of every part of Igbo history as we know it.

In other words, it is pure undiluted fact! Now u are not Igbo and no one begrudges u that. Igbos have no choice but to be Igbo same way u have no choice but to be yoruba. When u see facts like these, the proper thing for u to do is develop some thirst for knowledge about ur own people, put out ur own findings as verifiable facts if u like and that will be that. No drama or rancour. If u don't care to do so, that's ur own kettle of fish and no one cares cos no one will do it for u.

Now d Igbo man will never roll over and play dead; he celebrates his accomplishment proudly because he has paid d price and won the prize! Do same for urself. If it is not in ur nature then please live ur reality but don't begrudge others theirs. It is not everything u denigrate and yap crap about like a programmed robot that knows nothing else to do.

Stop and think! It'll help u.

That fellow you quoted is a lost soul that need urgent rehab.

OWUWA ANYANWU WILL RISE , NO MATTER HOW HARD OPPRESSOR AND HATE FILLED TRIBE OF FALLEN DARK BABA LAWO FIGHT ,


They knew in their heart ,their evil plot's and their evil work's with the north will not stand long .



you son's of taxi drivers knew B....FRA , will come any way , just watch it happen in your conscious life, physically .



you wall's of Jericoh will obviously fell down , you already knew you will fell .


we are nearer every day to our liberation from NIGER-AREA .


WE ARE UMU CHI UKWU OKIKE .

mrvitalis:

Yes we ibos are smart jobs doubt but we are looking foolish by our approach to Biafra.. That's my stand.. This approach has never worked in history

yoruba immediately I saw your moniker I had no doubt wht your post ll look and u didn't disappoint me pls face osun there's hungEr there and the state capital is turning an IDP camp

mrvitalis:

Yes we ibos are smart jobs doubt but we are looking foolish by our approach to Biafra.. That's my stand.. This approach has never worked in history

yoruba immediately I saw your moniker I had no doubt wht your post ll look and u didn't disappoint me pls face osun there's hungEr there and the state capital is turning an IDP camp.

kenny987:


Young man! For the first time in forever, stop and think. This piece was written by a respectable, well read and travelled person and he put these down through his personal research aa well as perceptions, evidence and experience gleaned over time. This was written about the Igbo! History today is as is researched and recorded for posterity and this represents a confirmation of every part of Igbo history as we know it.

In other words, it is pure undiluted fact! Now u are not Igbo and no one begrudges u that. Igbos have no choice but to be Igbo same way u have no choice but to be yoruba. When u see facts like these, the proper thing for u to do is develop some thirst for knowledge about ur own people, put out ur own findings as verifiable facts if u like and that will be that. No drama or rancour. If u don't care to do so, that's ur own kettle of fish and no one cares cos no one will do it for u.

Now d Igbo man will never roll over and play dead; he celebrates his accomplishment proudly because he has paid d price and won the prize! Do same for urself. If it is not in ur nature then please live ur reality but don't begrudge others theirs. It is not everything u denigrate and yap crap about like a programmed robot that knows nothing else to do.

Stop and think! It'll help u.

brother you just chat a robot up the jobless thing has been programmed to hate nd thaT ll be his End