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Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by Minime10(f): 7:55pm On Apr 10, 2023
All this reactions from APC's hirlings na ontop one letter by Chief Chimamanda
APC goons are so lazy & jobless grin
Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by Nobody: 7:56pm On Apr 10, 2023
Houseontherock1:

Everyone with contrary opinion on the election is EVIL and a disgrace as far as you guys are concerned! It's about time you guys realize that we all can't sleep and face one place...that's the beauty of democracy! It's really sad that you guys can't move on

You're trying to reason with these people? You've got time to waste. Obi said he got advice from a mad man. Put 2 and 2 together.

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Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by walefresh3(m): 7:56pm On Apr 10, 2023
Odin13:
And the wailing continues…

Wail wailing and more wailers wailing uncontrollable..

Chimamanda has set yoruba Apc and Tinubu associates on fire

… this fire no get quench … then say dem Dey do for tomorrow’s narratives…

Adichie run her show for posterity…

This woman really touch the soul of daddy druggie and his worshippers

God help them heal.. like this .. na till forever wailing
dey play.,.that stupid girl is an ipob apologist...

We go soon tag her as ipob terrorist sponsore... and we go spread it like wire...
Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by Isobug: 7:57pm On Apr 10, 2023
NaughtyBrainiac:
All of una bitter Igbo and Obedient losers never see anything. Make una write one letter, we go write 10.

We will show you that we are always ahead of you, Asiwaju.

Tinubu is President and no Jupiter can change that. If you are not pleased, leave Nigeria and NEVER return.

Awon omo iran kiran

Response ke,
Where does your letter go to. I can vouch this will not even reach Front page here on NL.
Why won't you respond with crap letters when you are under freight because of just one letter. Why are you afraid. Political jobbers are writing rubbish to see if they can be relevant and you are comparing it to a global letter that reach all cradles of the world in just 3 hours.
Who even has time to read those wordings up there
Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by Nobody: 7:58pm On Apr 10, 2023
PulaPower:

But this man in particular is from Edo. Are you sure everything is intact?

Since their trader brother lost the erection everything has not been intact for them. Just notice how irrational and hysterical they've been as proof.

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Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by hisexcellency34: 8:03pm On Apr 10, 2023
Let Afegbua debate with Chimamanda
Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by Taba21: 8:07pm On Apr 10, 2023
hisexcellency34:
By Kassim Afegbua

I have read a series of responses to Chimamanda's odious epistle to her master, President Joe Biden, the President of the United States. Given her professional orientation, she has now tried to make fiction of the 2023 Nigerian election with a view to making some cool wads to support her lifestyle.

Typical of writers of fiction, she used third person narration to rake together her jaundiced and very subjective fiction, and tried to dress it as though it was fact. She was jumping from one subject-matter to another, trying to elucidate an election she didn’t participate in. She relied on her cousins and uncles narration of what happened in one or two polling units in Lagos, to draw her conclusion about the conduct of the election in Lagos, which has 13,500 polling units. She made her falsehoods sound empirical and unflappable. She is a bad ambassador of the Igbo race nay Nigeria.

The Igbo mind is one that is presently troubled by the realities that stare it in the face at present. The activities of the outlawed IPOB, such a dangerous secessionist organisation that has been sucking blood from her own people, and has left the entire South-East prostrate and economically wounded, have become a sore thumb in the East. The poverty level in that region, is alarming. The education of the people is heavily impaired. The businesses of the people are in dire straits. It is a theme of idiocy that pervades the land.

In the fullness of such odious and self-inflicted maladies of a geopolitical zone, a pro-Igbo mindset like Chimamanda's sort, ought to provide the ultimate elixir for addressing the debilitating issues that have factorised its commonality. Mere pointing attention to the halitosis of her region in her global conclave, would attract attention to the very issues that have crippled the psyche of her people.

A writer need not exploit the negatives for commercial purpose at all times, but must be involved in problem solving also. Adichie's preferences are very discernible; they are not in doubt. She wants her uncle, Peter Obi, to be president of Nigeria. But Peter Obi must meet all the criteria; Including scoring majority votes in at least 25% of the states of the Federation and the FCT. The reason for this is to engender cohesion and national acceptance across the entire country. To achieve this feat, Obi would have needed Chimamanda’s clout locally but she preferred to remain in the diaspora throwing stones and shaking tables and then follow with writing letters.

That Obi failed woefully is instructive. Those who could have helped his aspiration were social media warlords who were busy throwing vitriolic attacks against those who didn't support Peter Obi. They were armed with data to become social media warriors. Chimamanda falls into this category; and has no voter's card and is unaware of her polling unit. She did not vote during the election; she did not visit her uncle during the election; she didn't campaign; she was never an item on the menu tick list. She was mute when her uncle needed her most.

As soon as her Uncle shouted blue murder over the election, without interrogation, she concurred, displaying some kind of amateurish sleuth. Yes, Uncle, it is blue murder!. Ask her how come her Uncle scored 97% of the votes in Anambra leaving others with miserable 3%, she will rationalise it. In the entire South-East geopolitical zone, Chimamanda's Uncle, Peter Obi, scored an average of 90% in the presidential election. The remaining 10% was left for the other 17 political parties to share.

I trust that Chimamanda's binoculars didn't capture that. She's quick to arrive at her preferred destination about the outcome of the elections. Fiction writers are always in a world of fantasy, trying, as it were, to reduce every human endeavour to a nice story. They choose their characters, ascribe roles to them, and set a thematic pre-occupation that would determine the flow of their fictive discourse. Chimamanda often finds it difficult to divorce herself from her world of fiction. It is the reason she wrote an epistle of fiction loaded with subjective footnotes to President Joe Biden.

Reading Chimamanda's fiction, I can easily interrogate her thematic focus. She failed in many respects in empirical realness. She relied essentially on the tales-by-moonlight of her cousins and uncles. She wasn't a participant. She was an onlooker nestled in her "Igbotic" duvet, from where she was dishing out her ethnic sentiments for the sake of her Uncle. She was far-flong from the furnace. She sat idly in her cocoon, glued to her television, taking breaks to surf the social media to get the gist of what was happening back home. Were she to be that patriotic to the Igbo cause, and genuine in her interests, she would have been in Anambra to partake in the electoral exercise.

Chimamanda belongs in the bracket of those authors who write art for art sake. They just pour impotent venom. They pour out their innate feelings and ascribe them to a humanity cause. They never really offer solutions. Never! They write for the sake of writing; story telling. The society is usually in a state of permanent flux, so piecing together a few biased thoughts and emotions is all that interests them; story telling I call it.

Rather than offer a therapeutic tonic in their pieces of fiction, telling us what society ought to be, they just document their whimsical and capricious position and pour out their anger and discontent, without offering even useless solutions.

Useful writing has its own temperament and healing properties. A piece of fiction drawn from experiences of the writer, using her socio-political milieux is usually embellished along the lines of the author's worldview. It doesn't necessarily represent the general reality. Chimamanda has failed on several levels to address the key ingredients that should enrich our democracy. Describing our democracy as hollow, on the basis of her Uncle's failure at the polls is the hauteur of an intellectual snob.

Even in the world's advanced democracies, of which Chimamanda is presently a habitué as I'm told, have their own kettle of democratic "issues" and shortfalls. Did she notice when Trump's supporters invaded the Capitol?

During the Bush era, outcome of election in Florida fell short of credible rating, yet, it wasn't enough for her to embark on letter writing to the Pope. Ditto for Hilary Clinton's experience with majority votes that couldn't fetch her the White House; did she notice? Nations will usually have their own peculiar shortcomings in their human endeavours but their citizens never call for the cessation of their own countries.

Nations get solutions to their problems by improving on shared experiences and the antecedents of their historical trajectories. Subjecting Nigeria's democracy and sovereignty to the magisterial intuition of America is the height of inferiority complex and slavish mentality that has remained in us after the end of slave trade. I am proud to be a Nigerian with my green passport. I love the culture and tradition of our people. I love our sense of communalism and congenial relationship of the African mind. Those who tell one side of the story are often imprisoned by their jaded perspectives and pigeon-hole parochialism.

Chimamanda falls into this category. Describing Nigeria's democracy as “hollow” is an unfortunate profiling in view of our improved electoral engagements and election conduct. Nigeria's democracy is just twenty four years old, and we have begun to see a marked improvement in our democracy: seven serving Governors lost their Senatorial bid, an Okada rider defeated a serving Reps member, a personal assistant emerged as elected Senator, and the list goes on.

There were several "upsets" in the last election which were indications of a deepening democracy in Nigeria. For writing to President Joe Biden, it does appear that Chimamanda wanted him to flog us on our bum with a stroke of the cane as in a master-servant kind of relationship How ridiculous!.

Chimamanda has a lot of themes begging for her attention. She should devote her time to them: The theme of poverty in her Igbo land and Nigeria is eternally discomforting. The theme of growing educational backwardness walks the street of Igbo land with perfunctory ease.

The theme of terrorism and a seeming guerilla warfare in Igbo land has continued to put the country in bad light across the world, ditto for armed banditry in the North. As a social commentator and author that she is, she ought to have carried out deliberate and conscious campaigns to end insurgency in her native Igbo land by drawing global attention to the ills and biles of the zone.

All these subject matters, which are a metaphor for our collective sufferance, are tenuous enough for Chimamanda to focus on, and proffer solutions. She chooses rather, to lie routinely as an addiction, to sail through life's struggle in our bramble forest. Chimamanda should be reminded that her fellow "Igbotic" Uncle lost the 2023 presidential election woefully on account of his jejune strategies that put religion and ethnicity on the front burner; telling his followers that the Christians should take back their country was the height of infantile approach to rein in the votes in a plural and secular country like Nigeria.

Obi and Chimamanda may cry from now till tomorrow, it won't change the fact that this last election has been won and lost. Obi lost. A thousand letters to President Joe Biden and Vladamir Putin, cannot take away our sovereignty. Democracy has come to stay in Nigeria, and the earlier Chimamanda realised this, the better for her so short, yet long letter.

https://worldviewafrica.com/chimamanda-and-her-thousands-of-letters/

Igbo race not Nigeria
Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by Heart3030: 8:23pm On Apr 10, 2023
Chimamanda must be really important for her letter to spark this massive reaction from APC guys oo.
Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by Masterclass32: 8:23pm On Apr 10, 2023
A pile of rubbish. undecided
Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by Tntsi: 8:36pm On Apr 10, 2023
Houseontherock1:

Everyone with contrary opinion on the election is EVIL and a disgrace as far as you guys are concerned! It's about time you guys realize that we all can't sleep and face one place...that's the beauty of democracy! It's really sad that you guys can't move on
Answer yes or no
Will you put your life on the line that the yakubu select was the winner of the election?

I put my life on the line that the election is s sham and the mandate is a stolen one.
Will you do same? Yes or no. No long story
Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by Wahalawaha1a: 8:41pm On Apr 10, 2023
MasterJayJay:


Mynd44 Seun Obinoscopy

Rule 2
see d hypocrisy 😂,
na wetin we dey talk about una b dis.. I repeat "just like your father at home"
Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by nairavsdollars(f): 9:09pm On Apr 10, 2023
Why hasn't Biden responded or acknowledged the letter?
Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by Odogwuzack: 9:14pm On Apr 10, 2023
Hedonini:
When will Soyinka write his own pro Tinubu and anti Chimamanda letter? Because that's the only Yoruba and Tinubu asslicker I can think of who may have anything close to the capacity to have the letter delivered to the White House. We don't need any unknown and useless Prof Oke or Onanuga or Kassim whatever. All worthless hirelings whose opinions are like the loud emissions of a lunatic in the marketplace.

Shoyinka won't stoop so low.

Portable can reply Shimamanda instead. That's her set.

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Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by PulaPower: 9:17pm On Apr 10, 2023
NoFucksToGive:
So many nobodies are having an opinion on an world renowned famous feminist and global literary icon
If her letter was about Anambra or SE, she won’t get no response regarding whatever she do..

She comment on national matters. They’ll sure respond to her. You don’t walk around fire and expect not to sweat..

They’ll soon remind her who the first boyfriend of her mother is..
Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by Odogwuzack: 9:20pm On Apr 10, 2023
The Igbo mind is one that is presently troubled by the realities that stare it in the face at present. The activities of the outlawed IPOB, such a dangerous secessionist organisation that has been sucking blood from her own people, and has left the entire South-East prostrate and economically wounded, have become a sore thumb in the East. The poverty level in that region, is alarming. The education of the people is heavily impaired. The businesses of the people are in dire straits. It is a theme of idiocy that pervades the land.

In the fullness of such odious and self-inflicted maladies of a geopolitical zone, a pro-Igbo mindset like Chimamanda's sort, ought to provide the ultimate elixir for addressing the debilitating issues that have factorised its commonality. Mere pointing attention to the halitosis of her region in her global conclave, would attract attention to the very issues that have crippled the psyche of her people.


Afegbua is a legend. A very honest, detribalised man. God bless him.

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Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by ababanwoke(m): 9:28pm On Apr 10, 2023
Pls who are you and what are your international achievements?
Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by HilcomTech(m): 10:08pm On Apr 10, 2023
IPOB/OBIDIENTS wailed for 8 years and now poised to wail for the next 8 years

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Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by MarketDispatch: 10:38pm On Apr 10, 2023
Okay
Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by walexbiz(m): 10:54pm On Apr 10, 2023
After reading Mr Afefbua write up, I hereby draw conclusion that no matter how learned most Igbos are, they are psychological liars wit the hidden agend to propagate their ethnic propaganda. In fact just show mr an igBo man and I will show you a con man, a fraudster, and an ethnic jingoist to cap it all.

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Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by JpBiz92: 10:59pm On Apr 10, 2023
I wanted to comment until I saw the picture of the man that wrote the jargon....
I saved my keyboard.
Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by SpatialKing(m): 11:01pm On Apr 10, 2023
NaughtyBrainiac:
All of una bitter Igbo and Obedient losers never see anything. Make una write one letter, we go write 10.

We will show you that we are always ahead of you, Asiwaju.

Tinubu is President and no Jupiter can change that. If you are not pleased, leave Nigeria and NEVER return.

Awon omo iran kiran

Wow
10 letters for 1 letter
That's really foolish
You guys truly empty brains

Empty can makes the loudest noise
Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by nairavsdollars(f): 5:51am On Apr 11, 2023
IBB man
ababanwoke:
Pls who are you and what are your international achievements?
Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by saintokwuluora(m): 7:27am On Apr 11, 2023
PulaPower:

No..

She personifies tribalism, hatred, bigotry & envy

There’s nothing mighty about Writing a letter to Biden to be telling Biden he wasn’t suppose to congratulate tinubu. She said USA stood so low to congratulate tinubu. But for her biased mind, USA wouldn’t have stood so low if it was Obi they congratulate..

There’s nothing logical regarding her letter and she has been exposed for who she is..
Why lose sleep over the letter then?
Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by plaindealer: 7:33am On Apr 11, 2023
Obi and Chimamanda may cry from now till tomorrow, it won't change the fact that this last election has been won and lost. Obi lost. A thousand letters to President Joe Biden and Vladamir Putin, cannot take away our sovereignty. Democracy has come to stay in Nigeria, and the earlier Chimamanda realised this, the better for her so short, yet long letter.




Long story short, this is the main koko that chimanda and her mob must contend with..



grin grin

Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by nairavsdollars(f): 8:18am On Apr 11, 2023
Is he not handsome
JpBiz92:
I wanted to comment until I saw the picture of the man that wrote the jargon....
I saved my keyboard.
Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by slivertongue: 8:46am On Apr 11, 2023
Tntsi:
Kassim Afegbua is a disgrace to fatherhood and elderhood.

It is time we call out all these morally bankrupt men who hide under the cloak of fathers and elders of our nation . I don't know and understand how someone sees evil and call it good because if your personal gains.

Election was a total sham, they turn a blind eye to it.
Tinubu is now a global embrassment . If these so called fathers have supported the late gani fawehini when he began this case back then, we will not be in this global embrassment that has made Nigeria a laughing stock.



Kassim thinks everything is about wads. No wonder he is unstable

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Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by Wahalawaha1a: 10:20am On Apr 11, 2023
MasterJayJay:


Just like your mother, siblings, father, ancestors and descendants.
yenyenyen .. e pain u? 😂 U can't take half of what u dish out.. the hypocrite , joke of a tribe..*spits*
Re: Chimamanda Is A Bad Ambassador Of Igbo Race And Nigeria - Kassim Afegbua by Okwyjesus(m): 10:38am On Apr 11, 2023
NaughtyBrainiac:
All of una bitter Igbo and Obedient losers never see anything. Make una write one letter, we go write 10.

We will show you that we are always ahead of you, Asiwaju.

Tinubu is President and no Jupiter can change that. If you are not pleased, leave Nigeria and NEVER return.

Awon omo iran kiran

We are talking of who has international reputation to write bro.

100 of Tinubu supporters letter is not equal to one that Chimamanda wrote.

This is not Jide TVC or Nation Newspaper's propaganda

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