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invisible!:
The top five from the votes are getting their azz banned, message from the mods.

And your point? Even banning an IP address will not work on those who know how to get around it. Especially from someone who signs on using different IP addresses. Then there is always PROXY sites. I will continue to have Igbo pride. If you have problem with that, then so be it.

WOW! I made the list. Very interesting and I have 5 votes. I do have Igbo pride, but this list is missing many of my nemesis. They know who they are.

He was not a saint. Very far from a saint. He made money off of the oil companies. And it has been said that he was involved in oil bunkering as well. The man wanted to be a power broker in the region. He was not a poor activist.

bisiaet:
The man(Achebe) is good I think he deserve it anyway is never too late he might one day get the award.

I think at this moment, he would not even accept that award unless those literary intellectuals up in Sweden and in Europe understand his criticism of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

Chinua Achebe was a trailblazer. He paved the way for many African authors, because his novel was thee first to bring up the African perspective instead of looking through a European lens. That is what made his novel so revolutionary and so controversial at the same time. It discussed a history that is not normally taught to the world. Missionaries were seen as good by Europeans, but he provided a counter-point. He talked of how it destroyed our cultures.

FBI would not get involved. This agency deals with internal conflict in the U.S. They would either send the CIA or the Marines to deal with these militants who kidnapped the Americans.

Sometimes it is good to post material that brings up educational debates, instead of the regular trash that I see on the Politics section. I am still quite upset that Chinua Achebe has not received the Nobel Prize in literature. His novels, especially Things Fall Apart is known far and wide as one of the greatest novel written by an African man and from an African perspective. It is required reading in many U.S. high schools and American universities. That shows the influence of Chinua Achebe.

And I still think it is institutional racism in the literary world that has caused him not to receive the recognition that he deserves. The fact in the matter is that if he didn't equate his novel as the antithesis to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, he would have received that prestigious award a long time ago.

I think if they ever offered him that prize, he would reject it, because he already knows the politics of the prize.

Environer:
Diya and Adisa, 2 Yoruba Generals called a Major (Mustafa) master and bowed for him. What sort of Generals are those? Amala and Gbegiri Generals or what?

LOOOOOOOOOOOL

Very funny

What happened to chain of command?

Aloy+Emeka:
Did Allah support her then?. That was why she died in that office.

She was killed by the same Muslim extremist that the United States is battling in Afghanistan. It was a tragic death. I remember watching CNN the day, that happened. Anyway, I hope you are just joking.

I think more women in politics would do the nation good.

excanny:
What dialect of Igbo do the Ukwas speak?

The Ngwa variant with some Ibibio loan words.

This does not many any sense. Women should have the right to run for office. You even had a woman as head of state of a large Muslim nation known as Pakistan. This foolish thinking needs to be done away with. It is sickening that people can still be living in the Stone Age.

How can such a small state run up so high of a deficit? I thought the people of Ekiti was a state filled with an educated populace. An educated populace would not allow their state to run such a high deficit.

Dede1:
EzeUche0, please my brother I suggest you apply a considerable restrain toward your utterances on this forum. I love the spirited exuberance you bring to bear on issue concerning anything that is related to you. But implying that Ukwa is thoroughly mixed with Ibibio and claim Ibibio more so than Igbo is akin to Ngwa or Aro man claiming more Ibibio than Igbo. I spent considerable amount of life in Ukwa and there is no circumstances where Asa or Ukwa person will claim more Ibibio than Igbo.

You are right. I retract my statement. However, some Aro do claim Ibibio more than others. You would not know that some Aro are even Igbo, since they have Ibibio last names.