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Igbo Alphabet And Culture. by golddust6000(m): 8:02am On Aug 26, 2017
In Biafra we can legislate Igbo & other Biafran cultures at a national level.
We can fund a research project that’d further develop Nsibidi which is an indigenous Biafran script. Igbo is a tonal language which is better written with a logographic just like Chinese instead of the British introduced Latin script. Our children can be taught how to write using these scripts and our official government correspondence, street signs etc will all be written with Nsibidi Script.

New Yam festival can become a national thanksgiving holiday and a national heritage. Industries can be built around it because the more Yam we eat, the more lucrative farming becomes. If it becomes a thanksgiving celebration, then people would send cards on that day which means that artists and card makers will exist. If a national celebration is held with entertaining shows and cultural displays, people will travel to take part in these events which means hospitality and tourism industries will spring up.
We need to make it a viable source of income for the nation, or do you think Europeans actually believe that Jesus was born on Christmas Day? Christmas was already in existent before Europeans converted to Christianity but it's their heritage and just last year, Christmas added £77.56bn to the British economy.

Even wrestling which our ancestors enjoyed, can be supported with incentives so that it can become a national pastime watched by millions of people. America’s fake wrestling (WWE) has an approximate value of $3.4bn dollars.

We can never achieve any of these objectives in Nigeria because they require national commitment.
Developing Nsibidi for instance will involve extensive research that may take several years & funding. It should therefore be backed by an act of Parliament, for instance; the Nsibidi act of 2017. That way, resources would be devoted to it, it’ll become part of the school curriculum (currently determined at the federal level), government documents, street signs etc.
Biafra is a unifying entity that would allow us to come together based on mutual interests, shared culture and ancestry maka na izu ka mma, na nneji. Lastly, the leaders we have now, were created by a Nigerian system. They reason and act in accordance with the system that produced them. They also reinforce that system and to create a new system, we must eradicate the old one completely. Based on our understanding of history and politics, an entirely new system is only possible in a new nation built upon new value systems.

Biafra = Decolonisation.
Nigeria = Neo-colonisation.

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Re: Igbo Alphabet And Culture. by EdwardRandy(m): 5:14pm On Mar 19, 2018
golddust6000:
In Biafra we can legislate Igbo & other Biafran cultures at a national level.
We can fund a research project that’d further develop Nsibidi which is an indigenous Biafran script. Igbo is a tonal language which is better written with a logographic just like Chinese instead of the British introduced Latin script. Our children can be taught how to write using these scripts and our official government correspondence, street signs etc will all be written with Nsibidi Script.

New Yam festival can become a national thanksgiving holiday and a national heritage. Industries can be built around it because the more Yam we eat, the more lucrative farming becomes. If it becomes a thanksgiving celebration, then people would send cards on that day which means that artists and card makers will exist. If a national celebration is held with entertaining shows and cultural displays, people will travel to take part in these events which means hospitality and tourism industries will spring up.
We need to make it a viable source of income for the nation, or do you think Europeans actually believe that Jesus was born on Christmas Day? Christmas was already in existent before Europeans converted to Christianity but it's their heritage and just last year, Christmas added £77.56bn to the British economy.

Even wrestling which our ancestors enjoyed, can be supported with incentives so that it can become a national pastime watched by millions of people. America’s fake wrestling (WWE) has an approximate value of $3.4bn dollars.

We can never achieve any of these objectives in Nigeria because they require national commitment.
Developing Nsibidi for instance will involve extensive research that may take several years & funding. It should therefore be backed by an act of Parliament, for instance; the Nsibidi act of 2017. That way, resources would be devoted to it, it’ll become part of the school curriculum (currently determined at the federal level), government documents, street signs etc.
Biafra is a unifying entity that would allow us to come together based on mutual interests, shared culture and ancestry maka na izu ka mma, na nneji. Lastly, the leaders we have now, were created by a Nigerian system. They reason and act in accordance with the system that produced them. They also reinforce that system and to create a new system, we must eradicate the old one completely. Based on our understanding of history and politics, an entirely new system is only possible in a new nation built upon new value systems.

Biafra = Decolonisation.
Nigeria = Neo-colonisation.

I really like this and wish it could come to pass, it breaks my heart that biafra is an uphill task to achieve. Nigeria will not let us go without a war.. embarassed embarassed

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