[quote author=mama-gee link=topic=691444.msg8526907#msg8526907 date=1308178337][color=deeppink]What exactly are you pointing out? [/color][/quote]I don't understand the question.
So if the black man is the only one who likes bling, how about the people who brought the culture of diamonds and who actually manufacture all this bling? Why are their countries more successful?
buzugee: but the unbridled love of bling is the symptom of a curse. the love of bling is put in place to blind us. to make us deaf dumb and blind. see ? the worship of sango, obatala, mami water, orisha, juju, voodoo, human sacrifices, baal, this is the original source of the curse.
Why weren't (aren't) the Japanese cursed because of their worship of Kami?
You seem to be coming from a western religious side which is one of the problems in my own though, but I would like to know what you think about the Japanese worshipping their own gods and not Jesus.
We know there is a mismanagement of Africa, but no one is talking about why this mismanagement is not found in most countries out of Africa. Nigeria or Africa's problems can't just start at 'bad leaders' because Nigeria has had plenty of leaders, and unless it gets its leaders from prison, I don't see the reason why all the leaders should be naturally evil, even if they are evil, there are other countries where there have been evil dictators who did not completely collapse the country. I have a thought on why this is, but I want to see first if Nigerian people can separate their brain from follow-follow and cancel out the real reason behind Nigeria's problems instead of the same "it's our leaders".
[quote author=PAGAN 9JA link=topic=689051.msg8509832#msg8509832 date=1307964549]Edo is a place in Japan as well as in Nigeria. [/quote]Edo no longer exists, Edo is now Tokyo.
nwa afo: The Igbo used be a landlocked Equatorial Rain Forest tribe, with warlords and intractable inter communal conflicts, among other good social and economic redeeming group qualities. That is how the White man found them and testified to by no other than Professor Chinua Achebe, in the highly critically acclaimed epoch novel:Things Fall Apart. Compare that to where they are now despite all odds placed in their tracks: from this landlocked rain forest locale to a very thriving world wide Diaspora, all in a little over100 years.
nwa afo: This was the psychology that propelled the Igbo out its former myriad of little Rain Forest "Nation States", where every village existed without regard to its other tiny neighbor, to a true integrated nation, in a little more than 100 years!
nwa afo: It can boast of blond and blue eyed Igbo children. [. . .] The blond hair and blue eye Igbo kid in Helsinki will one day work for Nokia as a Finish citizen, from who no industry secret, would be hidden from.
When you compare Igboland (where the biggest achievements of the Igbo are made. . . . .or are supposed to) and a place like south western South Africa or Tunisia, I really don't see the need for celebration. The Igbo seem to be one of the worst at preserving their culture, picking up everything from the outside and calling it their own (wearing "uniforms" to funerals, issues with modesty, naming their children names of which they know no meaning), the Igbo also have a bad attitude to their language, even when someone manages to manage the language or teach their child the language, it's Engligbo. Let's not talk about Igbo people fleeing to another man's land to become somebody machete sharpener. What about all the poverty and suffering and poor infrastructure in Igboland, even if they are the best in Nigeria?
What really is there to celebrate when there are more than 100,000 Igbo in the UK and US and their language or even their presence is not recognised, yet an immigrant community in their hundreds can be recognised before them because they have pride in themselves and where they come from.
There are better-doing ethnic groups who do not need to open up a thread on a forum in the country that once sealed off their sovereignty claiming to be successful. Until the Igbo can reach the economic/living standard heights and worldwide influential power of a group like the Japanese, or the Koreans, or the Scandinavians, I really don't see the need for celebration, only luck in being the best of the worst in Africa.
naijaking1: The governor is "doing a great work" by the layman's standard. The horticultural/architectural criticism has been that his government doesn't understand the importance of open spaces, vegetation, trees, and their subsequent climatic effect and environmental impact. This shopping mall could have been easily sited at another location without devastating the well planned horticulture of the area. If you know GTC, IMT, and that area of GRA you will see the negative environmental impact of this mall in a few years.
Most Nigerian cities, except for Abuja they said, don't understand having green spaces, but this seems to be changing slowly now. The administration of Enugu hasn't really 'built' any thing as large as this yet, the only other thing is the golf city under construction (?) which looks like it will have plenty of green spaces. Aside from that, the governor is doing good.
bashr4: those cities you mentioned are the major cities of nigeria ,thats where everything happens,no matter how much other cities develop people will keep relocating to onitsha,ph,lagos and abuja
Ikenwammuo: I think the POPE must hear this. What has the Cardinal, Archbishops, Bishops, priests and Deacons of the Catholic Churches in Igbo land done with regards to this, including the other denominations of the Christian Churches in Igbo Land. I think the Igbo land has only Christianity and not Islam. I think it's high time all the Catholics, Anglicans, and other denomination in Igbo Land took the BULL BY THE HORN TO PUT AN END TO THIS non- sense BELIEF, ALL THOSE READING THIS SHOULD THINK ABOUT IT. ASK YOUR RELIGIOUS LEADERS WHAT THEY'VE DONE TO PUT AN END TO THIS. OSU BELIEF IS NOT A CULTURE, I DISAGREE WITH THAT MOTION OF IT BEEN A CULTURE. TUFIAKWA!!! IT CAN'T BE A CULTURE. PLEASE ALL CHRISTIANS HERE SHOULD TAKE SERIOUS NOTICE ABOUT THIS AND MAKE MOVE, IGBO LAND SHOULD BE SANCTIFIED AND LET YOUR BISHOPS AND PASTORS KNOW THIS AND MAKE A HUGE MOVE TOWARDS THIS, JESUS CAME TO DIE IN ORDER TO REDEEM US FROM SIN. WE ARE SAVED, NO ONE IS A SLAVE IN THE EYES OF GOD, SO WHY SHOULD OSU PEOPLE BE TREATED AS SLAVES THEREBY OSTRACISING THEM, SINCE WE CALL OURSELVES CHRISTIANS OR SHOULD WE WAIT FOR ISLAM TO COME INTO IGBO LAND TO HELP US CLEANSE OUR LAND? WHAT EFFORT HAVE OUR RELIGIOUS LEADERS MADE TO PUT AN END TO THIS ASK YOURSELVES AND YOUR RELIGIOUS LEADERS? IF THERE IS ANY RELIGIOUS MAN OR WOMAN READING THIS, I WANT TO ASK YOU YOUR EFFORT TOWARDS THE RELINQUISHING OF THE OUT CAST SYSTEM(OSU, UMEH, AND ETC) IN IGBO LAND, WHAT EFFORT HAVE YOU MADE TO CALL YOURSELF AN ANOINTED MAN OR WOMAN OF GOD. OUR PREDECESSORS WERE IGNORANT OF THIS FACT - I MEAN THE DEMISED ANOINTED MEN AND WOMEN OF GOD. SO IT IS HIGH TIME THE ANOINTED MEN AND WOMEN OF GOD TODAY TOOK THE BULL BY THE HORN AND LEAVE THIS SO CALLED KINGS IN IGBO LAND WHO WON'T MAKE ANY EFFORT TO RELINQUISH IT. I AM PROUD TODAY TO SAY THAT ALL DEITIES IN MY COMMUNITY IN THE VILLAGE HAS BEEN DESTROYED BY THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS IN MY COMMUNITY IN MBAISE LAND(UVURU, ABOH MBAISE), YOU CAN MAKE YOUR INVESTIGATIONS, THEY WERE ALL DONE BY MEN AND WOMEN OF GOD AND NO KING OR CHIEF WAS WAITED BEFORE SUCH MOVES WERE MADE, "CITE ME IF I AM WRONG". SO IF WE LIKE OURSELVES AND OUR FUTURE CHILDREN, I THINK IT'S HIGH TIME WE TAKE A HUGE STEP. NO ONE WAS CREATED OSU. GOD IS LOVE. PEACE!!!
It's hard to read text that's all in capital letters, plus the pope (a position that once authorised slavery) has no power in Igbo society.
Ibime: Original PH was from Aggrey Road to Nnamdi Azikiwe road. 80% of original PH is Okrika land whilst only Diobu-Rebisi ws Ikwerre land. Contrary to the assertion of fake-PH boy EzeUche, PH never extended into Okrika land. PH extended into Ikwerre land. You cannot expand into water. There is no Ikwerre settlement beyond Diobu, whilst the Colonial buildings on Aggrey Road should tell you that was the administrative hub of old PH.
Why did Fredrick Lugard refer to the port as 'Diobu' and 'Iguocha' and not 'Okrika'?