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I beg my well informed and peace loving Igbo brothers to come out of silence or hiding and deter this propaganda and revision of history.

You cannot base your hatred for every Yoruba that meant well or fought your cause on Awo: from Wole Soyinka, Fajuyi to young student like Kayode Adams.

Why? Because Awo denied you the opportunity to rule his people. Nobody in his reasonable state would invite none of their people, especially those that think God destined them to rule others, to rule them. While at the same time fiercely detect being ruled by others.

Even then Zik led Lagos, it was not enough. As usual he wanted more. Where in Igbo land is that done. Please do not mention Alstine the community leader you later promoted to mayor posthumously and then burned his household.

Ndi-Igbo have enough problems ruling themselves and suppressing neighbors. Settle problem at home to make it conducive for your children to stay and feel comfortable at home instead of fighting for power in another man's land.

Sometimes I wonder if these revisionists, fake stats and chest beatings are Nigerians made for internet or they are real people that interact with other Nigerians in real life.

Call me naive, Nigerians from all parts are cordial and interact in real life than the venomous attacks on social media.

But then they could be acting out their worst fears and fatancies now that the whole world is retracing back to their land as default.

I agree with you. The South will always be used against itself. Some people call it compromise others see it as the political sophistication of the North.

Indeed, you may see it as democracy. As you rightly pointed out, we have to ask ourselves if we want our ethic champion to rule or a candidate that takes the interest of the whole Nigeria.

Where we fail is that ethnic champion has always rule from the North with the tactical support of divided South.

My fear is that it has crippled Nigeria and actually wrecked the North because of the religious culture to suppress Hausa and promote Fulani dominance.

Until we accept that Yoruba must be incentived in the East by tolerance and accommodation as practised in the West in the past for Azikiwe (he wanted more),
we will continue to go in a vicious circle.

Seriously, I do not see this Yoruba generation of giving an inch until they get reciprocal substance from Igbo. They think their parents were stupid.

flyingpig:
As far as South is concerned, the North will never vote an ethnic champion from the South into power, because that would amount to re-channelling the nation's resources and structure to the President's zone. They are instead, very comfortable to let southerners who are nationalists or can serve their interests to rule.

Awo and Falae are Yoruba champions. I guess you see why the North never let them won.

Obasanjo is not and he was allowed to rule.

Now here's the catch, when ever they allow the Igbo to rule, they'll handpick an Igbo who is not after igbo interests or upliftments, much like Onyeama, the Abba kyari's friend, or even orji uzor kalu who allowed his state to rot under his stewardship.

That's how much they want the rest of the country to depend on the structure they have set up for themselves to govern the country.

I do not know whether to thank him or curse him.

There is nothing wrong with looters exposing looters like OBJ/Atiku Show.

What is this, what audits did Obasanjo release from two neutral British auditors?

You and your likes are what is called uninformed maybe educated fools using statistics on black on black crimes to justify murders of blacks anywhere.

Tell us who are most of the people killing whites. Since most whites kill whites, does that justify a few killing of whites by blacks?

Most, almost all but a few of mass murders are whites. How does that justify whites killing whites or whites killing black?

If blacks kill blacks, do they get away? If whites kill blacks, they get away by stand your ground laws, Jay walking, afraid of blacks around white neighborhood, jogging or running in a black or white neighborhoods or calling the police on them.

Honesty, some Africans are so dense, you wonder how Nkrumah, Zik, Awo, Nyerere or even Mugabe were Africans.

I guess you and your likes see yourselves as intelligent. Yet, you run away from your land full of arable soil, milk, honey, gold, uranium, diamond:

only and only for those you worship as your salvation to run in opposite direction to exploit what you are running from.

Why don't you start by believing in yourselves with some confidence instead of reinforcing your colo-mentality for your children.

This girl at such a tender age probably has moneymisroad parents in Nigeria proud that their children are overseas.

Odeson!

Nbote:
Blacks kill blacks more in the US and even here in Africa.. While dey were busy protesting about black lives matter, a fellow black molested and probably killed her.. If a white man molests or kills a black man, it's termed racism. But when blacks keep murdering and ruining demselves, it is jus crime

Giants of Africa. This is not about passing or exchanging blames. Whether Nigeria breaks or not, you will still be judged by the land you come from.

This is about humility and reinventing yourselves from the ground up, from one generation to the next, not about greener pastures elsewhere. No more mumu in the world except in Africa.

Stop disgraceful selfishness and greed outside and inside your God-given land. You cannot takeover the fruits from the seeds planted by the fathers of another generation.

Work for your own.

The 60s was fine, not perfect. But each region was developing at its own pace.

The war brought disaster and it was the beginning of what to come. If the region's had continued, Nigeria could have been able to boast of at least two regions that could take care of its children.

It was the time those who studied abroad could not wait to get back home. Compared to today that giants of Africa line up for any visa or risk their lives through the desert.

Nah, 60s was our good old days minus the war and it's consequences that are rearing the ugly heads today. You cannot even compare today with the 80s.

So can Nigerian giants even condemn any black outside their country without pointing four fingers back at themselves?

RuudVanNisteroy:
Nigeria is a failed state and a shame and disgrace to the black race. With mentally ill fantasically corrupt thieves ruling it since [b]1960.[/b]

My Dream Team will salvage Nigeria.

https://www.nairaland.com/5690877/dream-team-transform-nigeria-2023


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg7lfHL_l1w

Arrogance Before A Fall.

Giants of Africa dying to get into any land and calling natives lazy and unproductive.

Self-hate is worse than corruption though one leads to the other in form of selfishness.

Where is the African Regional Power the World expected in the 60s?

I am sure some if not all remember the Giant of Africa. The giant whose children became the invaders of every land in Africa and abroad.

Shame! Waiting for foreign rescue of 200 million people.

Thanks for that.

But you should have included Yekini Ogunlere...... alias Tinubu that sent his mentor Pa Dawudo to his grave regretting he sided with Tinubu over the winner of Primary Funso Williams because he was not a member of NADECO.

Wiseandtrue:
Babatunde Raji Fashola (Tinubu)

Tinubu tried everything he could to prevent Fashola from re-contesting for 2nd term but Fashola does not row in the mould with pigs

He had the people by his side and he handcuffed Tinubu with his glaring and unquestionable achievements in Lagos State

If All Lives Matter Then African Lives Matter

Color line was created in the 1600 by laws in Virginia to divide and conquer people along the "racial" line. It may have been shattered or cracked into partial pieces by the children of the same white, black, red and brown people demonstrations around the world. Before then, it was Pope Nicolas the V in 1442 that gave Portugal the Papal bull to capture Africans for slave labor.

It is not yet Uhuru! Despite all the atrocities thrown at Africans, they preached forgiveness, love and only longed for happiness in return. As much as many Africans would like to forgive and move on, they are constantly shocked into the reality of their predicament. In 1962, John F. Kennedy famously said, "those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

300 years of reforms: baptism, religious converts, schools, piety, abolition, etc. have not changed economic subjugation. If anything, grandfathers, mothers and children from different generations have been told change would come peacefully, not by violence. At the same time, they are denying that Systemic Racism still exists. If they were blind, we could say they cannot see but since they are white, they are defending their privileges and can gather enough blacks to reject claims of Systemic Racism while blaming racism on the violence of individual victims.

The same religious pieties that pray with slaves urging them to wait for their reward in heaven while 84% of regular Church goers turned around recently and voted for the most extremist conservative parties in America and Europe. They encouraged worshippers of those that fought against abolition of slavery and revere Christopher Columbus that decimated the American Indians after he was rescued from the Sea. The celebration of traitors against their Country and slave owners entrenched old Privilege as justification for slave labor speaks louder than voice. Oh, they can always apologize and postpone the day of reckoning until judgment day in heaven. They want to go back to the Good Old Days when Africans had no Right. But Harold Washington, the first African Mayor of Chicago rejected it as the worst days of slavery for Africans in America.

Bitterness comes out of hopelessness of the oppressed. When black university graduates earn the same as white high school graduates or you have to do two or three jobs to eke a living while whites with the same skill and qualifications earn and live better than you on one salary. You know it is not fair.

George Floyd's video of Police snuffing precious life out of him in broad daylight was the last straw that broke out the silent majority demonstrating against injustice. But only African families know of many more not carried on televisions or videos. Suppression of peaceful expression of anger by Civil Rights demonstration as dissent encourages a vicious circle of another violence. It was a reminder evidence that Lynching in broad daylight did not end after the 1960s Protests by Africans in America. It is now carried out by the code words of Law and Order. Not different from world dictatorships.

Violence is the cry of the voiceless: it is the difference between those crying for change, those that are hungry; from those that are labelled as criminals. These threats of racial, ethnic, xenophobia and afrophobia kill their African victims slowly like other insidious diseases. It may not show an open wound but it is just as deadly as hypertension.

Our basic natural defense against hate comes from Flight or Fight. This applies to all animals including humans regardless of race or ethnicities for survival. As soon as the threat is over, we default back to our normal selves and all the biological hormones needed for defense preparedness are reset.

When provoked, animals including humans are created to fight when backed to the wall. An indication to live or die fighting for dear life. When you push people into violence by violence and decide to quell even peaceful demonstration by violence, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Ironically, that same natural Response is a Death sentence in the hands of Police among Diaspora Africans and some African countries.

So Africans coach their children on Restrain when questioned by Police. It is only the whites that can boldly demand reason for staged or unnecessary Police intrusions. Any black that refuses to be domesticated in the Diaspora hostile environment is a rebel that must be subdued by "legal" force. We remember the case of Louis Gate, the Harvard Professor, exhausted after returning from an international trip trying to get into his own house. The police sergeant called by his neighbors who knew he had some leg problem, coded him "uncooperative" for backup!

There is more, in terms of ability to cope under such constant emotional pain and interaction, it adversely affects our loved ones and others. Since the hostile environment degrades our well-being regardless of which community we are, our response could also be a double edged sword.

Nevertheless, Fight or Flight is easily indicated as elevated blood pressure demonstrating that our defences are on high alert. The problem starts when only blacks are on constant alert in a hostile and intolerant environment. Anxiety of High blood pressure then becomes a disease

putting additional stress on the blood vessel walls, making them stiffer and decreasing the amount of blood that flows through the body affecting most organs of our body from damage to the blood vessels of the brain, to the heart and kidneys that may result in a stroke, heart failure, kidney failure, obstructions (thrombus), to vessels in our legs.

You could be Louis Gate, Nelson Oyesiku or Philip Ozua in a New York Times article that claimed he Fought Two Plagues and Only Beat One: I know the cumulative burden of those experiences day after day, week after week, month after month, decade after decade. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/opinion/coronavirus-racism-montefiore-medicine.amp.html Therefore, those at risk of dying from hostile environments on a daily basis are more than those dying from Covid-19!

Their argument is that without law and order neither properties nor lives can be preserved. This general agreement empowered constituted authorities to give Police maximum discretion to use force with immunity even when charged to the Court of law. The division between conservative and liberal ideologies has to do with emphasis on the protection of properties or lives. Both value property and life but differ on which is needed to preserve the other. Both can be done fairly.

Favoritism and Privilege favor the elites and their families. Their corruption favors leaders and their cronies with devastating problems for the average man on the Main Street economy. Nobody or generation gives up Privilege without a Fight or Flight at the risk of the lives of Oppressed and Oppressors, otherwise real change will never come.

The only other way out is what we are witnessing right now as white children of the Oppressors see through the hypocrisy of their parents and decided to demonstrate with the Oppressed in larger numbers. This has never happened since the 1600s when we were divided and conquered on imposed color lines. This generation regardless of skin color assigned, woke up in large numbers and decided enough is enough. Put an end to injustice.

On June 12, 2020 The City of Boston that had its own history, declared Racism a Public Health Crisis.

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/288905/if-all-lives-matter-then-african-lives-matter.html

Country and time has changed, no be small. You cannot visit anyone without notice anymore.

Chai, we used to demand food unannounced. Dis iPhone generation na waa.

Since when has the appointment of one African or even the first African President ever change the plight of their masses.

Hero worshippers.

Many Africans were murdered all around the world but George Floyd was chosen to capture the attention of the world.

An African whose generation was captured and sold away to an unknown land.

God works in mysterious ways. Yet, some Africans do not give a dam. Except for the visas. Pity.

How many of us were moved when Nana Akufo Addo the President of Ghana's message was read at George Flood Funeral broadcasted by major TV stations around the world.

Subduer:
The buffer needed Ngozi to bail Nigeria from the monies they borrowed & shared among themselves.

Please tell me one private business where Ngozi worked and got experience to rescue a country.

Even in non-governmental and not-for-profit organizations, tell us one country Ngozi has rescue from "zoo" or "shiithole" to economic prosperity.

Just one country, please.

A man despised in his own country that even lost popular votes and hated worldwide is loved by Nigerians?

It reminds me of another poll from the same source (I think) that claimed Nigerians are the happiest people and another that claimed Nigeria is the most religious country.

In their own poll in America 84% support the demonstration their President tried to kill with US Army by invoking the Resurrection Act.

Who are these supporters other than opportunistic infectors that go to every land or country claiming the natives are not "Intelligent".

We then wonder what provokes Xenophobia.

Alcohol may be hard to dodge at those wine and cheese parties at conferences outside Nigeria.

The same is true about sugary sodas.

Solution: tell the server to put a couple of drops of red wine in the glass and top it up with salsa or carbonated water.

Pay me later MP.

MetaPhysical:
What flavor margarita?

However cautious and lite i am on the liquor....it could be one tablespoon....i get fired up! I quit margarita and daiquiri completely. My system is to responsive to it, low immunity.

Commonsense99:
Dude let them keep their respect, Ndigbo want out, this is not too difficult to understand.
Nigeria as a country have lost respect in the affairs of the whole world so what is their to be proud for? Only a f00l will sit back and seek for respect in a dilapidated country like Nigeria.

How great is your country?

If the silent Igbo rise up, there is a good chance Ndi-Igbo can gain enough respect from Nigerians, even if the country breaks.

Anyone old enough must wonder which did more damage to Igbo reputation, the war or the chest beaters.

The lesson for all of us is that you have to earn respect. Anyone old enough cannot be happy with the present state of our brothers and sisters we grow up with.

Op good job.

I do wish though that you had included some early writings from Senegal all across to Somali/Ethiopia.

Looking forward to that.

Clap for yourself.

Never destroy childhood or long-term friendship for a few minutes ecstasy.