socialjustice93: STFU! Who are you to advice any one? Is your tribe any better? Treacherous animal.
Every tom, dick and harry want to have an opinion about the great Igbo. In terms of HDI, which tribe is doing better than the Igbos in today's Nigeria?
All this facade won't help APChit. You better stop shifting goal post and face the real problems bedeviling this hell hole of a country.
Curious346: That was only three years ago, but as far as Nigeria is concerned, it is the remote past. Last week the 5th's proud tradition collapsed in an orgy of mass savagery that rivaled anything the Congo had ever known.
The root, as usual, was the tribal rivalry that has been tearing the nation apart all year. The men of the 5th are mostly Hausas of the Moslem North, which has been carrying on a vendetta against the thousands of Christian Ibos who have come from the Eastern Region to live. Aroused by reports that Hausas had been mistreated in the East, the soldiers surged out of their barracks to exact vengeance. They got it.
Blood Curses. The massacre began at the airport near the 5th Battalion's home city of Kano. A Lagos-bound jet had just arrived from London, and as the Kano passengers were escorted into the customs shed, a wild-eyed soldier stormed in, brandishing a rifle and demanding "Ina Nyammari?"—Hausa for "Where are the damned Ibos?" There were Ibos among the customs officials, and they dropped their chalk and fled, only to be shot down in the main terminal by other soldiers. Screaming the blood curses of a Moslem holy war, the Hausa troops turned the airport into a shambles, bayoneting Ibo workers in the bar, gunning them down in the corridors, and hauling Ibo passengers off the plane to be lined up and shot.
From the airport, the troops fanned out through downtown Kano, hunting down Ibos in bars, hotels and on the streets. One contingent drove their Land Rovers to the railroad station, where more than 100 Ibos were waiting for a train, and cut them down with automatic-weapons fire.
The soldiers did not have to do all the killing. They were soon joined by thousands of Hausa civilians, who rampaged through the city armed with stones, cutlasses, machetes, and homemade weapons of metal and broken glass. Crying "Heathen!" and "Allah!", the mobs and troops invaded the sabon gari (strangers' quarter), ransacking, looting and burning Ibo homes and stores and murdering their owners.
Garbage Trucks. All night long and into the morning the massacre went on. Then, tired but fulfilled, the Hausas drifted back to their homes and bar racks to get some breakfast and sleep. Municipal garbage trucks were sent out to collect the dead and dump them into mass graves outside the city. The death toll will never be known, but it was at least 1,000.
Somehow, several thousand Ibos survived the orgy, and all had the same thought: to get out of the North. Many were packed onto a Southbound train. The management of large companies operating in Kano chartered every available plane. All told, 1,400 Ibos were flown out of Kano alone last week.
One officer of the 5th dismissed the whole thing as a prank, but there was no assurance that it would not happen again. When a government representative promised a tense meeting of the Kano Chamber of Commerce that all was under control, he was hooted down. "Assurances are no longer any good," retorted one local business leader.
Zxcvbnmghtr: You can't change history by inputting this. Bear in mind! There is no cultural identity of an Igbo except that which the op as shown above. Infact to put icing on the cake is the white singlet, an under wear which is your cultural identity. Can you then kindly tell us why your 'woven' attires is not your choice of identity. Are you ashamed of it?
I tried posting on the thread but was unable because cloudflare
Yen yen yen yen! Illitrated hate filled people don't know what cultural fluidity is !
Can you tell me why you people aren't using same materials your ancestors used in weaving your clothes then ? Can you tell me why you guys stop tearing your faces with tribal marks?
Can you tell me when you lots started circumcising?
Is circumcising your culture? 🤡🤡🤡
Your lies were bursted with facts Una dey cry
Yes Igbos made fabrics from raffias and other materials and wove akwaete
Zxcvbnmghtr: It is very obvious that it is borrowed from the white men and now used as proudly a cultural identity because fact showed that they were using palm leaves to cover their na'kedness before the coming of the British. They were not civilized enough to have invented a traditional weaving machine like the one Yorubas have even since before the coming of the British, you know, the Aso oke.