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[quote author=Negro_Ntns link=topic=729479.msg8915195#msg8915195 date=1313245237]Ibo people are nobody in Nigeria when we talk about great people and cultures. To create a new greatness you all are on internet revising yur history. Where you find it impossible to revise yours you then try to revise other people's to narrow the obvious backwardness of your Nri/Aro history.

If we were doing a count and a nemurical value of 1 is assigned to each head of a Yoruba person, the Ibo equivalent will be 1/4 or less.

So you need to realize that you have oyibo to thank for designating you majority. You are truly and factually a political minority in this country. It has nothing to do with your population , which is not that many to begin with, but your political contribution to the history of Africa generally is blank![/quote]You're the only one concerened about how Igbo people percieve themselves or not, actually that is a lie, many people seem to want to concern themselves with who is Igbo and who isn't even when the Igbo aren't supposed to be worth anything. Maybe you're upset that nobody would give a flying shit about Yoruba affairs except Yoruba people, but everyone is desperate to put in a word in Igbo affairs. Is your history not sweet, can you not find the new thread button on the culture section? If the Igbo weren't as great you want them to be then you wouldn't be spending the majority of your internet time arguing Igbo issues so patiently with Igbo people themselves, most of whom are really indifferent to having a great empire or not. Sit down and reflect on your road to clown-dom. Well done.

Obi of Owa seems to be good, I don't know about Umuede. The rest, eeeh . . . . . .

There are more than three groups in Umuahia, isn't there? I think 'a dim ihu he o l'eme' is Ngwa, and Ohuhu people would say 'M na hu ihea i nẹ mẹ'.

agbotaen:
well i think you and your rest igbo propagandist are the crazy ones here and i know as an igbo man you do not know the meaning of the word royal , you think owa and ika royalty is like the ones bought with money in igbo land ,

To be honest, some Ika "royalty" are so useless they may as well not be there.

Ọnụ ojoo.

Flaunting yourself online is a mating ritual. The point is that the Wodaabe wear make up and spend hours on their make-up, I was thinking that that is a lot of vanity. When I said Western, I meant in Africa, as in Senegal and all those other countries where there are pictures of people with surnames like Diallo entering beauty pageants, like this lady:

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Is Diallo a Fula name?

It's a small little logo of a chapter of an Issele Uku association in the United States. You're making this a bigger deal than it is.

The Queen Idia mask is the most popular mask of West Africa, FESTAC used it, one Nigerian airline used it, and many Nigerians use it in different circumstances, whether from Benin or not. The mask looked nice, so the person editing the logo for the site (because it obviously doesn't come from real life) used it in the logo. Why can't people think?

What are the Wodaabe then, they seem like the most vain group of people in West Africa. And I think Fulani enter beauty contests in the more Western countries like Senegal, Guinea and Mali, or are they not average Fulani?

PointB:
^^^^
If his people are not complaining that he killed them and ran away, aren't you carrying more than the 'alleged' bereaved?
And 'hurting' more than the wounded?

Its a mask for the intimidation caused by his name. How can you bring a people to the brink of annihilation with all the power you've got and then some, and 40 years later you're back to where you were and they're back to where they were and better. Isn't that scary?

[quote author=Jenifa_ link=topic=732618.msg8898224#msg8898224 date=1313029030]the blame for the war goes both sides. Ojukwu let his people starve to death. he should have worked on a compromise or surrender. he even refused international food aid for his people and that says a lot.
and to top it off, he then fled to cote d'voire to save his own head.  

anyways, he ran for president in 2003 I didn't hear of igbos turning out en mass to vote for him.
he's not even anywhere close to being a political force in the east. This shows that even his people don't care too much for him except to pay lip service.

and of course. every man is a hero. . .  at his death.[/quote]Yeah, but no Nigerian can touch him without major consequences. He gets federal allowance, and he's always listened to in times of elections. Sure, no man is perfect and some negotiations should have been made with the outside, but he cannot be blamed for Nigeria blockading Biafra. He is not the one who called foreigners to strafe 'Nigerian lands', supposedly. The man has been revered as a hero for over 40 years now, hardly at his death, and as I hinted, anyone should dare touch him and see what happens.

Ojukwu never delclared a war, and it was the Nigerian government that caused the starvation of millions. Most people don't even know who these people in government were which is why it is attributed to Ojukwu, it's like the entire Nigeria of the 60s didn't exist.

No, but if they were they'd still wouldn't receive the amount of press.

Nnamdi Azikiwe, Michael Okpara, Aguiyi Ironsi, some of the Igbo leaders that do not get half the air-time of Col. Ojukwu.

Africa, just like Nigeria, is a white man's invention, pure fantasy.

Maybe it's fear of Biafra as well?

It seems whether you love him or hate him, he's not going anywhere in Nigeria's consciousness.

Africans hate you enough to send their priests to bless museum pieces dedicated to your ancestors.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-730776.0.html

There's no need arguing anymore, we've gotten down to the root of everything and we know what and who everybody is now, just check the Anioma flag.

Ngwa.

I mean, to do point of people who claim to be foreigners opening several threads about how he isn't popular? Why is Ojukwu such a hot topic still after all these years, you'd think for someone who was last seen active in 60s would be forgotten, yet he's name as well as Biafra is the only thing the world remembers from Nigeria of the 60s. I mean, if anybody from that era still living were to collapse and fall of the earth's surface, nobody would care, yet Ojukwu being hospitalised is the hottest topic in Nigeria right now. What did he do to become so famous even after all these years, he's both loved and hated (for some reason), but what we know is that even among the young generation have his name in their mouths. The more people talk about him (whether positively or negatively) the more his name lives on. Whatever it is, the man seems to be a legend (whether dead or alive), so what do you people think?