₦airaland Forum

[quote author=ejiyke2007][/quote]STOP THE LONG ENGLISH. AND Go F**K URESELF.

shymexx: Individualism based on wealth accrued, invested, and spent outside your abode is greediness and extreme capitalism... However, if that's how Igbos are - you lot still have a long way to go before you can compete with your peers... That also shows that Igbos haven't fully evolved yet, hence why you continue to blame everyone and make inane comparisons over absolutely nothing...

To be honest, you guys are the laughing stock of Nigeria... You need to change your skewed mentality and look for ways to build a community-based society... Time is of the essence!!

POINT OF CORRECTION. WE ARE THE ENVY OF NIGERIA AND WE WIL CONTINUE TO EVOLVE WETHER U LIKE AM OR NOT. F**k yeribas.

Katsumoto: Clearly, Achebe is not a deep thinker. He is a literary giant no doubt, but no more.

If he understands the evolution of society and the stages each group must pass through to evolve as a society, he would not tout, rather ignorantly, that individualism and competitiveness is an advantage. Individualism and competitiveness is merely an advantage for the individual but not society as a whole. Societies may or may not have social classes but they need hierarchies for them to function well. There is no great society without hierarchy. People who do well in such societies must find a way to compensate those who are not doing so well. The Romans gave the people gladiatorial arenas; the Europeans and Americans have social safety nets which the Asians are also replicating.

What Achebe sees as advancement in the form of Igbos settling in other places, others call it migration to seek opportunities in more evolved societies. Competitiveness and individualism meant that Alaigbo was not as evolved as other Nigerian societies. This competitiveness and individualism is still the reason why there is net migration from Alaigbo to other parts of Nigeria. For instance, there are Americans and Brits in Nigeria but there are more Nigerians in those societies than there citizens in Nigeria. Nigerians do well in those more evolved societies, better than some citizens in those countries but it would be foolish for Nigerians to claim that the society is evolved because of their presence. The rebuttal from the citizens of those countries would be, "if you are so great as to develop my society, why isn't your society better than mine or at least as developed as mine".

If there was an advantage to be derived from competitiveness and individualism, ALaigbo would be a shining example in developmental terms and the net migration from Alaigbo to other parts of Nigeria would have been reversed. Rather than have Igbos moving to other parts of Nigeria, you would have other Nigerians moving to Alaigbo.

Mr Achebe, talk is cheap. It is not important for you to claim superiority over others, it must be visible and demonstrated. Saying it doesn't make it so. The joke is on you.

INDIVIDUALISM AND COMPETITIVENESS ARE THE HALLMARKS OF CAPITALISM. AN IDEALOLOGY THE U.S USED TO DEFEAT THE SOVIET-UNION (COMMUNISM) IN THE COLD-WAR. U WOULD AGREE WIT MI THAT THE EUROPEAN (OLD WORLD) SOCIETY AND ECONOMY EVOLVED TO WHAT IT WAS TODAY AS A RESULT OF EXPLORATION,MIGRATION AND COLONISATION OF THE NEW WORLD (AMERICAS, CARIBEAN,AFRICA E.T.C). SO ACHEBE IS VERY CORRECT. THE IGBOS WILL CONTINUE TO EVOLVE WHILE THE YERIBA SHEEPLE CAN ALWAYS KISS OUR BLACK_A55

alj harem: Look stop hyper ventilating and think clearly here. Yorubas don't hate the Igbos and so do the hausas. Lets be critical, what gives Achebe the impression that Igbos are being hated. Here in Lagos, Yorubas, Hausas and Igbos live as one more like they from one ethnic group as you may put it. There is no ethnic factor.

Coming to the internet where you see a lot of people in their true form, you get a feeling that these people never actually loved you. It is not a fair feeling given the fact that you see them as your brothers and sisters.

WATEVA.

blasterman: Just for una info any landed property on a land is a lease. Dat lease can be broken or not renewed. Make una dey yarn dey go

DEY CONSOLE URESELF.

Onlytruth: My brother, I have taken a very careful look at Nigeria, and I can see that we are already gaining an upperhand, provided that our people stop this mentality of always turning the other cheek and forgiving mass murder. Our enemies are already foaming in the mouths and dying of backwardness.

Our greatest vengeance is to beat them IN NIGERIA. We shall use the current laws to rise to heights that will make them wish that they had allowed us to leave.
They will beg us to leave, but by then it would be too late for them.

Trust me, I know what I'm saying.

LAI-LAI, NIGERIA MUST STAY TOGETHER FOR US TO THRIVE, LIONS CANNOT PREY ON LIONs, WE NEED BUSHMEAT.... PLENTY YERIBA BUSHMEAT.

all4naija: So that now explains morality? Academic education is not an exchange for common sense. That Igbo are arrogant in all areas of life is a fact.

NO BUT IT IS A FUNCTION OF COMMON SENSE AND IF NIGERIA CANNOT HARNESS OUR PRIDE,INDUSTRY AND SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE THEN TOO BAD FOR HER. BUT IF THE YERIBAS HATE ON THE IGBOS BECAUSE OF THEIR ATTRIBUTES THEN THEY SHOULD THEIR SHYTTY AWO-OLE AND COMMIT SUICIDE. BUNCHOFT**TS

I LOVE THIS GAME.

Onlytruth: Your statistics even support Achebe! hehehe

Here we go.

If I add Igbo share in Lagos 33 billion (1/3 of 33 billion), to Igbo share in Delta (about 1/3) to Igbo share in Rivers (about 1/3) to all the SE states, without, just the first digits (not adding fractions, I come up with roughly $64 billion under Igbo control..
If I do the same for all your Yoruba states and add you share of 1/3 in Lagos, I come up with $54 billion.

You see my friend, we top you by about $10 billion.

I think that intelligent people in Nigeria already know that because we send our females to school more than you, there is NO WAY you can be richer than us.

Swallow your pride. Stop beating your wives and marrying 10 wives! Send them to school!

MWAH! HA! HA! 1BILLION LIKES... AND STOP STABBIN THEM 76 TIMES. MWAH! HA! HA!.

utumunta: I salute Achebe's courage 4 saying what Nigerians harbour in their minds.
1. Y do d hausa/fulani think dat they are naturally born to rule ds con3? They believe they are superior dan d rest of us.
2. Y do d yorubas alwaz align wt d hausa/fulani in politics? They thnk dat hausas are better positioned 2 wrest power 4rm d oda tribes(IGBOS) & hand over to them when they are tired
Check d success recorded in terms of inventions , scientific breakthrus , military tact n might during d Biafra war 2 knw if Achebe is wrong.
He ws right 2 say dat Nigerians cn only reach a consensus when such is targetd agenst d igbos. It is playing out on nairaland & it played out during d war.
Shame dat a ppl awo wantd 2 halt wt his £2
policy, own 60% of Lagos 2day.

THAT IS WHY WE NEED TO QUASH THESE BLACK MOSQUITOES (YERIBAS), ECONOMIC-WISE, LAGOS WIL B A STEPPIN STONE. WE OWN LAGOS.

T9ksy: Of course, you do! Keep underestimating your enemy. Same mistake you lot made in Jan 1966 which led to the northerners

instigating a pogrom against your sorry obdurate flat heads. Seems you lot haven't learnt anything concrete from your last shambolic escapade.

WELL,WE HAD SO MUCH LOVE THEM, EVEN THEN WE STIL GAVE THEM SUMTIN TO TINK ABOUT AND NOW ACHEBE HAS DONE US A FAVOUR AS WE NOW HAVE ALL OUR CIVIL WAR LESSONS IN DOCUMENTATION, IF IT WANTS TO HAPPEN,BRING IT ON OF CUZ, U KNOW LIGHTENIN CANNOT STRIKE TWICE. THOU YAMHEAD.

Blazay: Where?
On your wheelchair?
Mtcheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew!!!!
You nor dey shame?

GO HUG TRANSFORMER!