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Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by Nnenna1(f): 5:31am On Mar 29, 2012 |
Below is an interview with Chinweizu that dispenses some home truths about where we as Africans and Nigerians are today. I don't agree with a few things but the messages given here are quite true. Chinweizu in Conversation with James Eze |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by Callotti: 5:38am On Mar 29, 2012 |
Cool stuff! Q: Now, how would you assess the present Nigerian society as it is. Are we showing any real signs of readiness to stand on our feet? The imperialists have always been my best friends o! Africans are their own worst enemies. . . TRIBALISM! I can tolerate racism in any form. But tribalisim from YOUR OWN PEOPLE? Worse! Oh boy, speak for yourself. The devil you know is ALWAYS BETTER THAN THE CHRISTIAN SAINT! Q: What must Nigeria do to counter these obvious inadequacies? Hmmmmmmm. . .my sentiments exactly! I did not help nigeria enjoy it's loot, so I can't be part of the nation-builders. Period! |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by Callotti: 5:56am On Mar 29, 2012 |
Q: Nigeria , an enemy state? My sentiments exactly! To whom it may concern please! God bless America. . . my home sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet home!!! |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by OneNaira6: 5:57am On Mar 29, 2012 |
Nnenna1 I thank thee for introducing this man to me. What a brilliant fellow. The mention of egyptains and greek section, I don't really care much about that. Q: Are we at war really? Q: What must Nigeria do to counter these obvious inadequacies? Q: Nigeria , an enemy state? These quotes and the amount of truth iT's oozing is shockingly unique. 2 Likes |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by Callotti: 6:00am On Mar 29, 2012 |
Looks like the man only cares about Biafra. Good for him. I only care about America. Will the real Nigerians please fix this piece of shyte! Shalom!!! 600 years later, this moo-moo still dey shout LUGARD! LUGARD! Singing Sonny Okosun jare. "We want to know who owns the land. . .WHO OWNS PAPA'S LAND'!!!! Welcome to the new age Apatheid!!!! For Africans, by Africans!!!! 2 Likes |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by TonySpike: 9:00am On Mar 29, 2012 |
"So when the Americans were warning about your collapsing in 10 years, they were just being nice to you. All it takes for them to destroy Nigeria, whenever it is in their interest to do so, is to instruct the oil companies not to pay you a damn penny for six weeks, and Nigeria is finished. Nigeria is a failed state already, and if you don’t have oil revenue for six weeks all your governors, all the contracts they have been sharing will come to an end. And who will be loyal to the Nigerian state if money is not being dished out? You are living in a state that doesn’t really exist. It’s only a contraption that the foreigners built and are using for their own purposes." I read this portion of this interview and it is so obvious that Nigeria is finished. It's a big shame....the more reason why we must revive regional autonomy NOW. The country must be restructured as soon as possible!!! 1 Like |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by Nnenna1(f): 1:29pm On Mar 29, 2012 |
^^^ that is actually the most frightening portion of the article for me. |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by cheikh: 8:50pm On Apr 29, 2012 |
Nnenna1 ^^^ that is actually the most frightening portion of the article for me. @^^Nnenna1 why would you be frightened? Does it mean that you have never really contemplated about our existence as a so called country even economically(singularly) let alone holistically. Tribalism is a lazy man's excuse for our general ineptitude . I am very glad that you discovered an enlightened thinker like Chinweizu to help expand on some of my own line of thoughts about us as a people/country. Thank you so much for bringing forth this interview/topic. I agree with him 100% on everything he said especially about the state of our so called "Education" |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by naijaking1: 2:06am On Apr 30, 2012 |
Thanks for the post from Chinweizu. Does he have a last name? |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by Kilode1: 5:06am On Apr 30, 2012 |
^ His name is Chinweizu Ibekwe. He prefers just Chinweizu I believe. @ Cheikh, bro, I must confess that I'm kind of surprised that Chinweizu is not very well known in Nigeria though..he's a legend in the Pan African afrocentric movement. Maybe I should not be surprised. Generally, nigerians are not too interested in big political or philosophical ideas, even pan african ideas. Big ideas like marxism, socialism and all did not grow beyond university classrooms in Nigeria. We are too preoccupied with daily survival and we've never had a political movement based on a specific ideology. Come to think of it, that is kinda amazing for a country this large. BTW, Chinweizu's work/column was serialized in a Nigerian newspaper a few years ago, businessday or something iirc. 1 Like |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by ektbear: 5:33am On Apr 30, 2012 |
Summary? |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by lagcity(m): 6:25am On Apr 30, 2012 |
Africans have lost their phocking minds, especially with those imported religious bu11sh1t. 2 Likes |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by ebere1712: 7:14am On Apr 30, 2012 |
He is so right on education. Education is best taught with your language. But the truth is that they have already started failing. Their last survival moves would be a total disaster. It is our responsibility to get our children cultured in their ecosystem and learn things that would help them solve their own problems. Any society that teaches its children with a foreign language has mental illness. communal poverty is a disease that we must acknowledge and fight to eradicate. 1 Like |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by cheikh: 8:02pm On Apr 30, 2012 |
[b][/b]Kilode?! @ Cheikh, bro, I must confess that I'm kind of surprised that Chinweizu is not very well known in Nigeria though..he's a legend in the Pan African afrocentric movement. Maybe I should not be surprised. @^^ Bro Kilode?!, I guess he's not exactly a "showman". Nigerians are not noted for being "ntellectually"/positively predisposed towards writers let alone "challenging Ideas"(isms) Pan-African or not. We are inherently intellectually lazy. Only text books matter to our air head students interested only in money, BB, latest gear and silly cults. The so called opinion formers in Nigeria are not exactly known for any high minded political/philosophical thoughts nor inspiring oratory. Sincerely, none come to mind . Chinweizu will be invisible in a place like Nigeria because of our general predisposition for everything foreign(ideas) hence very few Nigerians are exposed to him, thoughts/writings of Amilcar Cabral, Nyerere and Mondlane et al. How many have bothered to read the full text of the Biafran (Ahiara Declaration). How many so called "Awoists" have actually read/understand the Great man's book? The size of Nigeria is an embarrassment when talking of "Ideas" of such nature. I believe that there are some individuals around with great minds/thoughts but the nature of our environment is not conducive for intellectual pursuits. Yes material poverty may have something to do with it but I very much doubt it. We are so neck deep/absorbed in crass consumption/materialism that it has negatively impacted on our so called Educational system too. We are sick as a country and the so called"Leadership" Lucky Joe et al are equally lost and confused too. It's a mess and very sad indeed. I heard a man Mr. Biodun Aremu speak on a TV program(Agatha), he sounded very grounded and inspiring. Take care Bro and keep on putting out the correct ideas for our survival. 3 Likes |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by ektbear: 9:15am On May 02, 2012 |
ekt_bear: Summary? I know i'm being somewhat lazy, but.. |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by Ufeolorun(m): 10:16am On May 02, 2012 |
When you all stop tacitly blaming others for our problems maybe,you can quickly check China,India and Brazil. In fact China is enough-You only need to learn what makes your enemy better,copy it and he loses is edge then sink him further by adding your own local know-how to the way you fight back. We have been saddled with shockingly hedonistic middle-aged men whose life revolves around instant gratification and we still think century old issues are still the cause of our problem please go back to your Lagos will die infatuation. |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by cheikh: 2:29pm On May 02, 2012 |
Ufeolorun When you all stop tacitly blaming others for our problems [/b]maybe,you can quickly check China,India and Brazil. In fact China is enough-You only need to learn what makes your enemy better,copy it and he loses is edge then sink him further by adding your own local know-how to the way you fight back. @^^ You may be right that we should stop blaming others for our problems. I am a little puzzled about your suggestion that we should learn what makes the enemy [b]better and copy it and perhaps with a little addition of our local know-how we may reach the proverbial promised land . Well, that's very doubtful because in my opinion the fundamentals are almost non existent such as "Discipline", Discipline, Discipline and some dose of positive self consciousness. You have correctly identified the "shockingly hedonistic" proclivity of our people not just the so called leadership or in your parlance- "middle-aged men whose life revolves around instant gratification". Bro, it's our "culture". We are inherently lazy! lacking in serious intellectual and physical rigour like the peoples of the countries you mentioned above. Please think about it. It is beyond simply copying/mimicry and grafting something we do not quite have as a "nation"/people presently. Our salvation is far off as we do not have a functioning viable Educational system like the countries you mentioned above especially China. |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by idelle: 2:48pm On May 02, 2012 |
You have correctly identified the "shockingly hedonistic" proclivity of our people not just the so called leadership or in your parlance- "middle-aged men whose life revolves around instant gratification".[img]http://www.spgames.info/g.gif[/img] |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by Ufeolorun(m): 4:47pm On May 02, 2012 |
cheikh: UfeolorunI don't agree about our being generally lazy or it being cultural.Change all over the world has been championed not by the majority but few influential minority,we do have them but they are no where near the real influence they need or they are totally out of touch . We all love pleasure,its human but the real worry is the shocking total embrace of it by those who should know better. |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by cheikh: 8:25pm On May 02, 2012 |
Ufeolorun I don't agree about our being generally lazy or it being cultural.Change all over the world has been championed not by the majority but few influential minority,we do have them but they are no where near the real influence they need or they are totally out of touch . @^^ Bro, I know that my choice of word(lazy) might offend some folks but we can't run away from the fact that a cursory look around our general productivity and work ethics is radically different from our counterparts in/from other continents especially Asia(India, China, Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia)et al. We may try to emulate them but generally our spirit is weak or we don't have the natural resilience/discipline necessary for "industrialism". I am not saying that we cannot acquire such skills, techniques, and train ourselves to be disciplined like in those places including Euro-America. "Revolutions" or Champions of change are usually a minority everywhere but they don't just happen in an atmosphere of general/complete ignorance at times deliberate as it is in our society hence we always make bad choices at the ballot box. ^^ Well, as for pleasure being a human trait and desire, why then would the real worry be "the shocking total embrace of it by those who should know better" in our society?. They are products of the society and they have to live up to the "desired" expectations of the "people"/ society hence rarely do properties of corrupt politicians or looters ever confiscated by the authorities. It is like a gentleman's agreement that whatever happens properties or loots must be left untouched/never tampered with. Ibori will go back after his sojourn in England and still be "flexing" as if nothing ever happened or changed in his life. Bro, our problems are unique and quite different from those of other peoples of the world hence serious thought and radical action is required beyond mere hope that a small band of "enlightened" persons will lead/effect the change we desire. I am not exactly hopeful on the national(central)level but perhaps hopeful on the "micro"/state level if the people so desire to effect changes for the better. Somehow, that too is problematic because I sincerely believe that Nigerians are masochists who love pain, badness and ugliness around us. I wonder why? |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by Nobody: 2:08am On May 03, 2012 |
hmmmm....i will read it all later o!! Callotti: ...Africans are their own worst enemies. . . TRIBALISM! OMYFRIKENGAWD!! YES BRO!!! A-MEN!! |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by Kobojunkie: 2:19am On May 03, 2012 |
Hard truth ko . . .! |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by ektbear: 2:57pm On May 03, 2012 |
It appears that no summary is forthcoming for the lazy like myself |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by igbo2011(m): 2:52am On Aug 02, 2013 |
ekt_bear: It appears that no summary is forthcoming for the lazy like myself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmu_F92nB4U |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by thoth: 4:56am On Aug 02, 2013 |
Man! i almost went Mad reading this... the man was so on point i felt i am levitating on my chair. I have argued this over and over with many people on nairaland but what do i know...you will see them asking for summaries very soon. They will tell this man is dumb but they whom has not done any research whatsoever on this issue, has not lost any sleep on it are right. |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by Demswear4u: 8:55am On Aug 02, 2013 |
Wow. This interview sent electric bolts all over my body. The damage of Africa and Nigeria is too deep. All Nigeria and Africa has for citizens are fake Europeans,fake Arabs,and fake Americans. There's no hope. |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by slap1(m): 9:14am On Aug 02, 2013 |
Chinweizu is a delight to read anyday. I love his poems, too! |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by asha80(m): 10:15am On Aug 02, 2013 |
has anybody wondered whether the education we are getting in nigeria is 'nigeriacentric'? |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by igbo2011(m): 11:46am On Aug 02, 2013 |
thoth: Man! i almost went Mad reading this... the man was so on point i felt i am levitating on my chair. Slave mentality that we have. Only value what doesn't come from us. I had an intellectual organism reading this. |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by igbo2011(m): 11:47am On Aug 02, 2013 |
asha 80: has anybody wondered whether the education we are getting in nigeria is 'nigeriacentric'? MBA no it doesn't teach you to be proud of nationalistic as Thoth said.. Ts Eurocentric from the British. |
Re: Afrocentric Scholar Chinweizu Dishes Some Hard Truths About Nigeria And Africa by nobaga: 11:43pm On Mar 07, 2020 |
Chinweizu contributed his part, now that children refused to learn history, they will continue to chase the shadow of white man. |
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