LOMBARDY:

Are you Yoruba?

LOMBARDY:

And why is that common goal working for a monoethnic Europe but not for a multiethnic Africa?

StaffofOrayan:
Canada has 2 official languages

wirinet:


Not exactly, I am itsekiri. Our language is similar to Ilaje and Ijebu dialects. Having said that, I lived and schooled in various parts of Yoruba land, so I have friends from various dialects. I once had an Ondo girlfriend, when she spoke her Yoruba dialect, I could not understand a word.

nengibo:
Somalia is monolingual

kmariko:
As a side note, most developed or high income stable nations have these trajectory fundamentals

1. A dominant ethnic group
2. A dominant language
3. A dominant religion
4. A dominant culfure
5. A dominant "ethos".

LOMBARDY:

So you're saying the Igbo will serve as a cultural adhesive factor in the case of an independent southern country??
Take note that a joint southern culture is just available with a few connected southern ethnic group. What makes you think the rest won't desire self rule??

awgumayor [s:
post=83083722]You are trying so hard to turn this thread into igbo/ biafra why the main discussion is why are most developed countries monolingual. Biafra gives you people nightmares. Monolingual biafra is even the best.

LOMBARDY:
[/s]
Don't turn this thread into one of your biafra/afonja threads...
The person I quoted understood my point because we were both making references to many places.
Go around the thread and read my responses to the comment. If the mention of Biafra trigger emotions in you..you can find your way out of the thread

awgumayor:
I was following your response to guy you have quoted and you sounded like an igbo hater.

LOMBARDY:

And what did the guy's response sound like? We were exchanging ideas through mild debates and you suddenly assume I hate igbo..
Why do you think every political thread must one way or another refer to Igbos?

awgumayor:
I was the one telling you not to turn this thread into Igbo/ biafra, you are now throwing it at me. I hate to see a thread people can discuss reasonably, all of a sudden igbo comes into it, the next minutes igbo haters will start flexing their muscles over it.

LOMBARDY:

But everybody can speak English

StaffofOrayan:
Find out about places like Quebec in Canada, their official language is French

LOMBARDY:

References here are always made to Somalia

nengibo:

Yea cause having one language and dominant religion can never be the reason for a country's development

LOMBARDY:

Even the north has a lot of languages too..
Plus the ones in the south, what were they thinking?? Unity in diversity??

socialmediaman:


https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-languages-are-spoken-in-china.html

LOMBARDY:

Am not saying it's the main reason. It solves part of the society problem and in another way creates problems for multilingual countries

nengibo:

What societal problems does it solve

myright:
if the SE was to be a country, will the north and SW have a say about the Enugu International airport, onitsha port? Will there be numerous police /army check points along our roads? Will there be 58 toll-gates as being proposed? Will Aba and Onitsha not have international airports? etc

nengibo:

What societal problems does it solve

myright:
if the SE was to be a country, will the north and SW have a say about the Enugu International airport, onitsha port? Will there be numerous police /army check points along our roads? Will there be 58 toll-gates as being proposed? Will Aba and Onitsha not have international airports? etc

LOMBARDY:

The Government doesn't have to worry about different ethnic groups saying they're marginalized or ethnic clashes for starters

nengibo:

Ok, but you need to understand that there's no country in the world without a form of division, if it isn't ethnic groups, it will be religion, colour, location, dialect, class

LOMBARDY:


Yeah I know..but Nigeria is compounded with many of them