Perkins2018:


Forsyth is biased. He is a Christian missionary in Igbo land. How would you see the account of an Egyptian based in Kano?

Kestolove:
She dont hv sense

0monnak0da:

All stories need to be heard for balance and equity,
The Benin Story, The Lagos Story the Port Harcourt Story The Urhobo story
The January 15 Story

All stories matter

Oshigun:


You Igbos will be judged by God for your inglorious take on issues to the extent the finest education , even after many decades, cannot assist you in seeing the culpability of your grandparents and their ignominious roles in the advent of the brutal civil war all sides suffered over. So Nigeria just decided to wage war against Igbos and kill them while Igbos were innocent victims entirely blameless over the civil war? Let me ask you Igbos, especially emotional intellectuals like Chinamanda, why the man who took you to war accepted to be pardoned by Nigeria and even ran for office of the same nation he swore Igbos must sever links with. Yet you lot will never blame Ojukwu or the many vainglorious cowards who led your grandparents to their death.

It is the Yorubas and Hausa/Fulani misguided Igbos like Chinamanda must keep calling 'genocidaires' . Newsflash for Igbos. Chinamanda and co are wasting their time. Young Yorubas don't care and we don't feel we did anything wrong. Igbos should develop more emotional maturity or keep hating. Makes no difference in this day and age.

It is very simple. You hate Yorubas/Hausa and Fulani then stay away from them. Proclaiming to hate them daily and fingering them as the cause of all your woes is hypocritical and unprincipled in so far as you Igbos cannot remain in your corner and stay away from them.

NimrodEndOfDays:
Then why were you talking like you had relatives who died in the war?

0monnak0da:

I am not here on Nairaland to tell my story that is not the right place for that

Stop talking like a silly child

NimrodEndOfDays:
is this how you were trained?

Vortex369:


It is banned. He banned it after the war. Ofcourse you have not read any history of the war. There are no syllabus on it. You want me to show you proof that our Civil War History is banned, when you already know its banned or you are not aware that it was banned.

Who do you think banned it, when Gowon lead the country then and after.

Think, buddy think.

0monnak0da:

Was Achebe unbiassed?
Achebe was the propagandist of the Biafra regime
The Biafran forces were no saints neither were the Nigerians let us be honest and fair

It is not a competition so there is no point for me enumerating the well documented atrocities on BOTH SIDES

Achebe and Chimamanda are motivated by the need to keep the Biafra story alive which is a legitimate thing to do however their accounts by any measure are one sided . There are two sides to this story. Quite wisely the Nigerian sides have kept quiet because there is no point dredging up stuff if there is a genuine need to heal and reconcile.

As we have seen on Nairaland repeating both sides ad infinitum will change NOTHING.
It will achieve nothing.

That is the nature of war and people should learn from that

If we go to war today even greater numbers will die.

knowledgeable:


Wole Soyinka;.... "The man dies"..nko?.

Edaniels9:
Dude you are the one full of hate. With what you spewed here, it's not hard to see that your hatred for the ibo tribe will consume you soon. There are so many accounts of the civil war written/narrated by people from different tribes, races and walks of life and all point to the fact that the Nigeria army committed war crimes. What Gowon said is inarguably incorrect. The same people you are defending are the same people few brave ones(Fela, Sowore, etc) from your tribe went all out against. It is either you just hate the ibos or you are comfortable with being oppressed.

Kestolove:
She dont hv sense

Perkins2018:


Bla bla bla.....

Show me a proof that history was ever banned in Nigerian schools or shut your trap.

duncun:
Don't even bother with "Mr epistle writer" he has an inbuilt hatred for the igbos and he's well known for that.

Him and his muslim brothers will defend Gowon today for the war crimes he commited against biafra ppl, but will exonerate the fulanis for killing gowon's ppl and nearly sending them into extinction.

Kestolove:
She dont hv sense

donbachi:
if we kill our selves today,who will make it straight.

Okwyjesus:


And she wrote so many award winning books. Who really don't have sense. Am just wondering.

NGpatriot:
The woman is another self-righteous tribe obsessed bigot, I remember how she cosigned achebe's tribal and bigoted rants, very unbecoming and divisive, but of course, the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. They are all raised with and fed the same tribal us against them hatred, bitterness and cultural paranoia.

I watched her TED talk about “The Danger of a Single Story.”, but she promotes nothing but the same single story about Nigeria that's grossly flawed, shallow, one-sided, tribal and ignorant.

Education is supposed to wash away ignorance, but such is not the case with this woman, for obvious reasons of course.

War is a state of armed conflict between states, governments, societies and informal paramilitary groups, such as mercenaries, insurgents and militias. I[b]t is generally characterized by extreme violence, aggression, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces[/b]

byrron:


It will become another history that will be straightened up maybe by a more sensible unborn generation.

Vortex369:


You hate yourself enough to be a slave of tribe and loyal to a certain political oligarchy.

You are a slave Neo

Perkins2018:


There goes another rubbish. Only igbos see themselves as slaves in Nigeria and rightly so.

0monnak0da:

Was Achebe unbiassed?
Achebe was the propagandist of the Biafra regime
The Biafran forces were no saints neither were the Nigerians let us be honest and fair

It is not a competition so there is no point for me enumerating the well documented atrocities on BOTH SIDES

Achebe and Chimamanda are motivated by the need to keep the Biafra story alive which is a legitimate thing to do however their accounts by any measure are one sided . There are two sides to this story. Quite wisely the Nigerian sides have kept quiet because there is no point dredging up stuff if there is a genuine need to heal and reconcile.

As we have seen on Nairaland repeating both sides ad infinitum will change NOTHING.
It will achieve nothing.

That is the nature of war and people should learn from that

If we go to war today even greater numbers will die.

Oshigun:


This is one of my points. Hardly can you come across one objective Igbo in 50,000 even if you culled the sample group entirely from intellectuals and Professors. Their irrational outlook transcends any knowledge even the finest education can bestow on a human being. One of the biggest show of gross hypocrisy and clannish hate of others is how Igbos have never spoken with one voice to acknowledge the destructive role the egocentric megalomaniac Ojukwu played in sending many Igbos to their deaths whereas we have billions of narratives maligning Buhari, Gowon, Adekunle, Awolowo et al as inhuman war criminals. It would be helpful if Igbos know the meaning of war yet their talk, over several decades, show this is not the case. Most Igbos, contrary to what the rest of the world believe, think war is a Tea Party where they get to play ' unfairly treaetd' victims after defeat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War

Kingspin:
Was the war fought in your area?
Those who lost their loved ones and property are given account.

Even 7 yrs Syrian war had not lost a million souls.