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Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by odinceblog(m): 5:42am On Sep 21, 2019
Nigeria’s foremost novelist Late Chinua Achebe claimed that Nigerians,especially of the Hausa/Fulani and the Yoruba stocks, do not like Igbo ethnic group because of the southeast’s cultural advantage.

He made this claim in his new book, There was a Country, which has generated controversy for his onslaught on the role of Obafemi Awolowo as the federal commissioner of finance during the Nigeria civil war. He accused Awolowo of genocide and imposition of food blockade on Biafra, a claim that has drawn rebuttals and contradictions of emotional intensity from some southwest leaders and commentators.



“I have written in my small book entitled The Trouble with Nigeria that Nigerians will probably achieve consensus on no other matter than their common resentment of the Igbo,” he wrote under the heading, A History of Ethnic Tension and Resentment. 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.”

He observed that the Igbo culture’s emphasis on change, individualism and competitiveness gave his ethnic group an edge over the Hausa/Fulani man who was hindered by a “wary religion” and the Yoruba man who was hampered by” traditional hierarchies.”

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.”



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

“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.”

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.

‘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.

“Nigerian leadership should have taken advantage of the Igbo talent and this failure was partly responsible for the failure of the Nigerian state, competitive individualism and the adventurous spirit of the Igbo was a boon Nigerian leaders failed to recognize and harness for modernization”

“Nigeria’s pathetic attempt to crush these idiosyncrasies rather than celebrate them is one of the fundamental reasons the country has not developed as it should and has emerged as a laughingstock,” he claimed.

“The ousting of prominent Igbos from top offices was a ploy to achieve a simple and crude goal.

what the Nigerians wanted was to “get the achievers out and replace them with less qualified individuals from the desired ethnic background so as to gain access to the resources of the state.”



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.”

“contemporary Igbo behavior(that) cab offend by its noisy exhibitionism and disregard for humility and quietness.

https://odinceblog.com/reasons-why-nigerians-hate-the-igbos-chinua-achebe/

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by Nobody: 5:46am On Sep 21, 2019
Igbo love attention. Attention seekers

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by mancanoe: 6:05am On Sep 21, 2019
The great Chinua Achebe was right.

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by Wiseandtrue(f): 6:19am On Sep 21, 2019
Igbosmoker:
Igbo love attention. Attention seekers
While your brothers, Bokoharam and Fulani herdsmen love what

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by Nobody: 6:20am On Sep 21, 2019
Take aways...

1) The earlier advantage of the Yoruba by first coming in contact with the white men due to their location around the coastline, was closed up by Igbos within two decades between 1930 and 1950.

2) The Igbo man's culture of competitiveness and individualism, not hindered by "wary religion" as in the North or "Traditional hierarchies" as in the West is the reason for corporate advantage over any other ethnic group in Nigeria.

In simple terms, Igbo Amaka!

I'm unapologetically Igbo, and I will always tell it to anyone who cares to listen that if transmigration, as posited by Pythagoras, is real, I would like to transmigrate as a cat in Igbo land in my next life.

I don't care if that's ostentatious or exhibitionistic.

Igbo Kwenu!

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by mrvitalis(m): 6:21am On Sep 21, 2019
Fulanis/hausas hate igbos because we are the once stopping the spread of islam down south ....
2) they cant really control igbos ( no one can even our gods are judged by us )

Yorubas fear igbos political because they fear with igbo president igbos can take over lagos n open eastern ports that would cost lagos

South south minorities fear igbos because we go to their place n build like we want to take over ...not knowing we just love comfort and business

For the record no igbo land would value outside land over his fathers land ....reason we travel every year

The same issue israel face ,same issue japanese faced in china ,same issue chinese face now ,same issue indians face is the same issues igbos face

Igbos have potential to take over places ...economically ....but politically nah

We are the only major tribe that never took another mans throughout history

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by alexvatt(m): 6:23am On Sep 21, 2019
These Igbo people. They are truly wailing wailers. Even Achiebe was not left out.

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by Wiseandtrue(f): 6:24am On Sep 21, 2019
odinceblog:
“The ousting of prominent Igbos from top offices was a ploy to achieve a simple and crude goal.

what the Nigerians wanted was to “get the achievers out and replace them with less qualified individuals from the desired ethnic background so as to gain access to the resources of the state.”
https://odinceblog.com/reasons-why-nigerians-hate-the-igbos-chinua-achebe/

The truth!!! NOTHING but the truth!!!

Buhari's corruption, stealing and access to the national treasury will shake this country

For him to say that Abacha is not a thief mean that Abacha is not fit to tie his (Buhari's) shoe lace when it comes to stealing!!!

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by EricBloodAxe: 6:25am On Sep 21, 2019
Igbos are bullies...no average kid loves bullies. Kids will feign sickness so they can avoid bullies in school, church, playground etc.
Thats why the tribes Achebe mentioned hate igbos. They look at igbos from a position of weakness while igbos approach them from a position of strength.

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by Nobody: 6:26am On Sep 21, 2019
mrvitalis:
Fulanis/hausas hate igbos because we are the once stopping the spread of islam down south ....
2) they cant really control igbos ( no one can even our gods are judged by us )

Yorubas fear igbos political because they fear with igbo president igbos can take over lagos n open eastern ports that would cost lagos

South south minorities fear igbos because we go to their place n build like we want to take over ...not knowing we just love comfort and business

For the record no igbo land would value outside land over his fathers land ....reason we travel every year

The same issue israel face ,same issue japanese faced in china ,same issue chinese face now ,same issue indians face is the same issues igbos face

Igbos have potential to take over places ...economically ....but politically nah

We are the only major tribe that never took another mans throughout history

Couldn't stop laughing when you said we even judge our gods.

Now, if we judge our gods, who art mortals that we shall not judge them?

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by Nobody: 6:29am On Sep 21, 2019
alexvatt:
These Igbo people. They are truly wailing wailers. Even Achiebe is not left out.
Take this..

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by mrvitalis(m): 6:30am On Sep 21, 2019
Awol1:


Couldn't stop laughing when you said we even judge our gods.

Now, if we judge our gods, who art mortals that we shall not judge them?
There is an igbo saying

" if the gods claims he is too powerful ,we would show him the tree we caved him from "

Igbos fear no man ,thats why we travel ...do what ever u can to makw money but dont kill ...killing is the worst offence in igbo land then prison (there is no prison in igbo culture that's how Osu people came about ... )

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by ebuk4real(m): 6:59am On Sep 21, 2019
cool

Even the mad man or the blind man in the street knows the Igbo are a blessed set of people, except for the few rascals amongst them

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by Myhusband(m): 7:10am On Sep 21, 2019
see as that crook painted his kinsmen with good colour and painted others bad. no wonder Soyinka was picked before him


so na only Igbo get talent and fit to rule ba? the one Ironsi rule led us to where we are today


the same Igbo that can't developed a common state will developed Nigeria. just visit their region and see how talented this people in governance bunch of unserious elements


or those their kinsmen scattered all over Asia prisons are displaying their talent ba


Igbo are joke of this nation because they brought themselves to that level until they see politics as a contest and not a title before they will have relevance in Nigeria


and how can others love those who feel they're the most superior on earth, the only people with wisdom that's not useful in their region

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by Mightyhaiz: 7:22am On Sep 21, 2019
Wiseandtrue:

While your brothers, Bokoharam and Fulani herdsmen love what

execution

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by goodnessme1(f): 7:25am On Sep 21, 2019
Myhusband:
see as that crook painted his kinsmen with good colour and painted others bad. no wonder Soyinka was picked before him


so na only Igbo get talent and fit to rule ba? the one Ironsi rule led us to where we are today


the same Igbo that can't developed a common state will developed Nigeria. just visit their region and see how talented this people in governance bunch of unserious elements


or those their kinsmen scattered all over Asia prisons are displaying their talent ba


Igbo are joke of this nation because they brought themselves to that level until they see politics as a contest and not a title before they will have relevance in Nigeria


and how can others love those who feel they're the most superior on earth, the only people with wisdom that's not useful in their region
Your hatred for Igbos is not new and is not surprising,because.....

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by mrvitalis(m): 7:32am On Sep 21, 2019
Myhusband:
see as that crook painted his kinsmen with good colour and painted others bad. no wonder Soyinka was picked before him


so na only Igbo get talent and fit to rule ba? the one Ironsi rule led us to where we are today


the same Igbo that can't developed a common state will developed Nigeria. just visit their region and see how talented this people in governance bunch of unserious elements


or those their kinsmen scattered all over Asia prisons are displaying their talent ba


Igbo are joke of this nation because they brought themselves to that level until they see politics as a contest and not a title before they will have relevance in Nigeria


and how can others love those who feel they're the most superior on earth, the only people with wisdom that's not useful in their region
Igbos Feel they are superior ?
Same yorubas would calm they are superior and sophisticated ,most educated ,blah blah even tho we know its all false

This is just yorubas issue ....Igbos are not competing with you ...

You guys are the ones competing with us without us knowing yet u still losing

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by Myhusband(m): 7:33am On Sep 21, 2019
goodnessme1:
Your hatred for Igbos is not new and is not surprising,because.....


prove My point wrong or shut the fvck up. no be the development in your region suppose sell you to other Nigerians?

in this 21 century your States is in a total failure except Ebonyi that's still trying yet y'all are chest beating your failure here

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by vicfajeze: 7:37am On Sep 21, 2019
ACHEBE WROTE JARGONS.USELESS SON OF A GUN.BLOODY SONOFABITCH

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by goodnessme1(f): 7:39am On Sep 21, 2019
Myhusband:



prove My point wrong or shut the fvck up. no be the development in your region suppose sell you to other Nigerians?

in this 21 century your States is in a total failure except Ebonyi that's still trying yet y'all are chest beating your failure here
Tell us the state in east that your south west state are better than.

Don't say lagos because lagos is no mans land.

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by mrvitalis(m): 7:41am On Sep 21, 2019
Myhusband:



prove My point wrong or shut the fvck up. no be the development in your region suppose sell you to other Nigerians?

in this 21 century your States is in a total failure except Ebonyi that's still trying yet y'all are chest beating your failure here
Show us list of nigerian state with GDP ....the carefully removed Imo lol ...regional government go sweet die

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by mrvitalis(m): 7:42am On Sep 21, 2019
vicfajeze:
ACHEBE WROTE JARGONS.USELESS SON OF A GUN.BLOODY SONOFABITCH
Yea his book are still used world wide today ...what have u achieved

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by Mrfeel: 7:45am On Sep 21, 2019
Myhusband:
see as that crook painted his kinsmen with good colour and painted others bad. no wonder Soyinka was picked before him


so na only Igbo get talent and fit to rule ba? the one Ironsi rule led us to where we are today


the same Igbo that can't developed a common state will developed Nigeria. just visit their region and see how talented this people in governance bunch of unserious elements


or those their kinsmen scattered all over Asia prisons are displaying their talent ba


Igbo are joke of this nation because they brought themselves to that level until they see politics as a contest and not a title before they will have relevance in Nigeria


and how can others love those who feel they're the most superior on earth, the only people with wisdom that's not useful in their region

Typical hate of a yoruba man hating on Igbo, we are the only economic human resources this country Nigeria has, we are all over this country doing business we are the biggest revenue generators paying taxes for our business all over Nigeria in Lagos we are the biggest revenue generators keeping Lagos Seaports busy,

During biafran war everything in our region was destroyed igbos lost everything, but look at where we are today competing on same level with people from the west and North that was never affected by the civil war

The reason this country is backward is because you yorubas and northerners are more concerned about politics and power, not about developing this country, you see it as a contest between the North the west and the east, that's why people who are not fit to be Presidents of this country like Buhari are there

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by vicfajeze: 7:49am On Sep 21, 2019
mrvitalis:

Yea his book are still used world wide today ...what have u achieved
WOULD YOU MIND LISTING YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS TOO SIR?

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by mrvitalis(m): 7:52am On Sep 21, 2019
vicfajeze:
WOULD YOU MIND LISTING YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS TOO SIR?
I was not the one who talked down on a legend ....world known ...as for my achievement i have many for my age

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by vicfajeze: 7:57am On Sep 21, 2019
mrvitalis:

I was not the one who talked down on a legend ....world known ...as for my achievement i have many for my age
WHICH LEGEND?ARE U REFERRING TO MR (DIA WAS A COUNTRY)?A BEG SIR

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by mrvitalis(m): 7:59am On Sep 21, 2019
vicfajeze:
WHICH LEGEND?ARE U REFERRING TO MR (DIA WAS A COUNTRY)?A BEG SIR
Things fall apart is the greatest literary Work done by an african

Go do some research boy

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by vicfajeze: 8:03am On Sep 21, 2019
mrvitalis:
Things fall apart is the greatest literary Work done by an african
Go do some research boy
THANKS MR RESEARCHER
Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by Logobenz0: 8:12am On Sep 21, 2019
vicfajeze:
THANKS MR RESEARCHER
Oga go and sit down one place grin

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by Myhusband(m): 8:24am On Sep 21, 2019
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Mrfeel:


Typical hate of a yoruba man hating on Igbo, we are the only economic human resources this country Nigeria has, we are all over this country doing business we are the biggest revenue generators paying taxes for our business all over Nigeria in Lagos we are the biggest revenue generators keeping Lagos Seaports busy,

During biafran war everything in our region was destroyed igbos lost everything, but look at where we are today competing on same level with people from the west and North that was never affected by the civil war

The reason this country is backward is because you yorubas and northerners are more concerned about politics and power, not about developing this country, you see it as a contest between the North the west and the east, that's why people who are not fit to be Presidents of this country like Buhari are there
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civil war is 49yrs ago and you're still hiding your slow development under civil war. when the civil war ended and after national reconciliation, didn't your Governors collect allocation, what are they using it to do?


how many people does Ike lift out of poverty in his senatorial district when he was senators for 20yrs and DSP for 8yrs?


you people have no reason to tell anyone that is only Igbo that can govern Nigeria well

I'm not against Igbo president but president is not a title, is an elective post. Igbo should come out openly and stop blaming everyone for their flaws

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by guynextdoor(m): 8:25am On Sep 21, 2019
vicfajeze:
WOULD YOU MIND LISTING YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS TOO SIR?
But he asked you first...or you got nothing to show, boda? grin

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Re: Reasons Why Nigerians Hate The Igbos – Chinua Achebe by Myhusband(m): 8:29am On Sep 21, 2019
mrvitalis:

Show us list of nigerian state with GDP ....the carefully removed Imo lol ...regional government go sweet die


which GDP? what's the GDP of Ebonyi that's doing fine despite Abia have business venue than them

if Igbo will govern Nigeria well, na their states go judge. not all this unnecessary and needless hype


I have nothing against Igbo but Igbo ain't shiit more than anyone. Igbo can't even measure with Yoruba when it comes to creativity that's the soul of talent


if Yoruba don't brag, I wonder why Igbo should

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