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nwekeugochukwu:
Memories Of Biafra Can't Be Erased, Biafra Can Never Be Defeated And Wiped Away - Soyinka

Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka has said that the removal of history from the curriculum of Nigerian schools by the government is a criminal act, IGBERETV reports.

Speaking at the 24th edition of the Lagos Book and Arts Festival organized by Book Kraft, Soyinka stated that memories of Biafra can't be erased by the removal of history from schools' curriculum as the agitation can never be defeated and can never be wiped away.

He said;

“Collective memory is the key because it is that memory which is related to the mechanisms of relating reality to whatever narrative is given to us. It is far more important and it is more dangerous because you can get trapped in it because it is collected as a community activity and some of that I think is happening to us here in Nigeria.

“I’m referring of course to Biafra.

“The collective memory there is very strong, even before the war, I warned that this collective memory might remain to plague efforts at nation being and that therefore, everything should be done to avoid that war.

“When I use expressions like, Biafra can never be defeated can never be wiped away, people thought I was talking about just the battlefield.

“I was talking about, a notion, a passion which enters the collective memory in active life not just as a past narrative. this is what I was warning against. And we’re seeing it today.

“Governments sometimes think that by undertaking the criminal act of removing history from schools, something which I never believed could ever happen to us. The government actually stopped teaching of history in schools.

“So naive, so stupid as not to recognise that there is something called memory, collective memory, active memory in the present.

“If the purpose was to obliterate the war or memories of the war, what about events that led up to the war? What about the position, the narrative of existence in relation to the outer world? How do you obliterate for heaven’s sake?

“Yet people sat down and went about their business when they removed history from the curriculum.

“That’s what I mean by saying that we must always adjudicate the present by history, by the collective memory.

“At the same time, however, we must take care not to become prisoners of that collective memory. That member must be able to use our collective memory in a progressive, productive, creative, and advanced way.”



https://www.instagram.com/p/ClN0FXBNwgm/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

I guess this dude should speak adamantly on numerous issues which besieged the shithole called Nigeria as he did before and during Biafra/Nigeria war which saw him in jail.

Racoon:
So after foisting the catastrophe of 8 years in Buhari, the SE does not merit to have the shot @ the presidency but it is now a case "nobody can be president of Nigeria now based on ethnic and regional considerations.”?

Imagine Kwankwaso wickedly saying he is the most competent just as emilokan is also talking trash despite their ganging up to bastardized this nation for others. Divide the nation, they said no.Lat others try their hand on the leadership thing, they also said no.

Bro, please pay no mind to these goons. What makes today's shithole called Nigeria different from or better than yesterday's Nigeria?

sukkot:
cuz they played a game of power acquisition and lost. now its like IF I CANT HAVE POWER THEN I AM GOING MY OWN WAY. its like IF I CANT HAVE IT THEN LETS DESTROY IT MENTALITY. its selfishness. tHE people in the east once owned the power but they wanted the ultimate power. they had the power after idependence but that regioNal power that everyone had was pissing them off because they wanted the ultimate power over the whole country. so they killed the leaDers of all the regions except their own and then ironsi aguiyi banned all the regions and then the ultimate power they were looking for over all the country was established but it was short lived as the north came and took that power away. but see they have cancelled the regions and now its a voting system in democracy and the north has highest number of people so by the igbo man destroying the regions it means the north would now have power for the rest of our existence because they are the majority but if their conscience is worrying them that ok we are monopolizing this power they can do eye service and give it to south. and so the igbo man realized he has shot himself in the foot because he lost the ultimate power and with the structure of nigeria and how the regions no longer have power he knows he can never get power again and so that IF I CANT HAVE IT LETS DESTROY IT ALL MENTALITY KICKS IN AND HE STARTS SHOUTING I WANT BIAFRA- I WANT BIAFRA. BASICALLY THE IGBO MAN IS POWER DRUNK AND REALISES THERE IS NO MORE POWER FOR HIM IN NIGERIA AND THATS WHY HE WANTS BIAFRA SO HE CAN SATISFY HIS DESIRE TO HAVE POWER. right now that power he craves can be acquired through peter obi but if peter obi looses expect a fresh wave of biafra agitation to sweep the country. a promax new wave of biafra agitation if peter obi loses

Only a domesticated dingbat will refer to things that happened immediately before the pronouncement of Republic of Biafra as "A game of power acquisition". For the sake of human intellect, how could Ironsi ban regions and regional governments yet appoint regional governors to continue to lead until new election is scheduled? Nigerian educational system is a piece of crap. It is very disheartening to read craps from certain Nigerians which were solely formulated from junks cull from newspapers habituated with contour of falsehood.

obailala:
Are some of you not even tired of this your failed attempt at 'attachee by force' or could we just call it, 'land grabbing'?

Not for once have I seen a person from the SS complaining or denouncing the south-south designation; it's always south easterners trying to shove it down everyone's throat by fire by force that there's nothing like south-south on a compass. The whole episode just reeks of a desperation to 'attach by force'. Are the SS people kids or illiterates or non-humans that they cant be allowed to decide on their own destiny?

For the record, it's called a GEO-POLITICAL zone, not a GEOGRAPHICAL zone; so this continuous referrence geographic locations just points to ignorance.

Can we please stop this desperation to attach or append the SS to the SE by force? It actually brings ridicule to the SE and south easterners.

Only moronic countries use the term, geo-political zone. A serious and developed country does not imply.

Thiefinubu and Antituku are non-staters in SS and SE.

JoeyNaza:
Rest with this silly narrative. Me being from SE can't agree with you. Any group can create and identify with whatever geopolitical construct they deem fit.
So if everyone now is East what is your own gain there. Better go and find money before you begin posting another thread about relocating to Gabon

The above post reeks a position reserved for ignoramuses. It is foolhardy to create a group which is geographically positioned in the south and identify the group as northern.

Victoronah1:
Geographically, there is nothing like south south. We only have south, East, west and North. If you're from the so called south south, you're from the east. All eastern states compromise of Enugu, rivers, Calabar, Delta, Imo, abịa , Anambara, Ebonyi, akwa ibom, cross River, etc. Let that sink into your head. Stop making blunders, there is nothing like south south.

Take a look at this map. You can see how cross River is almost ebonyi state, on the outskirts, tell me how the Bleep that place is South South? Just look at this map closely if you have brain you will come back. These guys are using divide and conquer on us here in the East. The East is one and one. No mall division

https://www.nairaland.com/attachments/16465411_screenshot20221120123608_jpeg9ac0b70fc2bcd5a31835c7ddf659df0f

I guess a teacher must know the basics of a subject matter. In addition to the four cardinal points, there are four complementary points such NE, NW, SW and SE. Most states in the so-called south-south fall under SE.

Jogs1900:
I don't think everything is about politics...The man is showing love and empathy and this shows his kind of person.

Nigerians have a way to turn everything into gospel. The man who has just been recently disqualified as APC gubernatorial candidate for River State by the court is now a moral figure.

BanyXchi:
pls it's very myopic to think there's nothing wrong with the formation of Nigeria, we have nothing in common, Nigeria is the typical example of Clash of Civilizations, we can't go back to regional system of gov because it will still end up breaking as some regions can't fund themselves, it's better we go our separate ways, Nigeria does not have 250 ethnic groups, that's just the usual propaganda promoted by One Nigerianists

USSR had more than 1000 ethnic groups, yet it disintegrated into manageable nation states. The talk of 250 ethnic groups in Nigeria as a need to keep the shithole called Nigeria as configured is a regrettable idiocy.

Xbobtage:
For Goodness sake, condemn evil when you see it. What has tinubu got to do with this

There is no evil in this circumstance because the fight for independence has never been pretty.

OyigboUpdate:
So some callers called Chinansa Nworu for this atrocities done by ESN on his last Facebook broadcast he said it was not his ESN that it was Simon Ekpa ESN.
On the other hand Simon Ekpa has denied on his twitter broadcast that it was not his own ESN that it was Chinasa Nworu own ESN

The story happens that these couples killed by IPOB and ESN were kidnapped then they asked for a ransom of 30 million naira from the family.
The ESN also took their vehicle. These are part of the vehicles unknown gunmen normally use for their attack on the police and army.
Ever wondered why the unknown gunmen from the bush always have money to buy new cars everytime?


Watch the analysis from Ijelespeaks as he plays Chinasa Nworu own story denying the ESN and Simon Ekpa own.


https://fb.watch/gUl2xczkPd/

Why would any sane person ask for a ransom of 30 million naira from the people whose picture is shown as murdered victims?

tinsel:
Critic, Reno Omokri is regretting that he wasted $4,000 just to investigate if the APC’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu attended Chicago State University only to find out that it is true.


He lamented that he listened to the lies of supporters of the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, that Tinubu did not attend the university.

“Soludo was right about them. They are a mob. They have no head, and as such, can’t reason. And that Tinubu did not attend Chicago State University is an obvious lie. I should know. I believed the lie and wasted $4000 plus flying to Chicago to investigate in person!



“Believing that Tinubu did not graduate from Chicago State University is like believing Buhari has been cloned, or replaced by a Sudanese named Jibrin. No wonder the same set of people believe both lies. He graduated from Chicago State University,” Omokri said in series of tweets on Saturday.

Omokri added that Tinubu is actually a better leader than Obi, when one took into account what he achieved in Lagos as Governor.

He said “Obi is not even a leader. He is a trader. He will trade away Obidients for profit! however, it is not true that Tinubu did not attend Chicago State University. I physically went to Chicago. He attended and graduated. Tinubu was actually quite intelligent and studious, according to them.”




https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2022/11/19/tinubu-graduated-from-chicago-state-university-i-wasted-4000-to-investigate-him-omokri/

The actions of most Nigerians tend to reinforce the fact Nigeria has the most deliberate fools on earth. If the people who had no heads remotely lured you into wasting $4,000, it must be recall you are more headless than the people.

shortgun:
The nonchalant attitude of most men in Nigeria is the number one reason the country is continuously retrogressive decade after decade.
Nigerian men are the most docile, most submissive and most fearful men in the whole world.

There's no where else in the world where frail looking old wrinkled men control 100% of the nation's wealth at the detriment of strong,Young and able bodied men.
These old men have continually enslaved the so called leaders of tomorrow that will never lead..... feeding them only crumbs.

Nigerian men have all the power to make the country great but they are mostly cowards who are scared and will shit in their underwears at the sound of a locally made gun.

Nigerian men are cowards who are always afraid to die yet they are dieing daily.

If I can find only 5 men who are willing to die today this country will become great again.

In the caption of this tread, the word "Weakest" should be replaced with "Most Idiotic".

madridguy:
APC, a party of kind, caring and generous people. Speedy recovery Madam Itubo.

Only to a demented dingbat thinks so!!!!

Migrants cannot claim any state or land.

ElSudani:
Many of you Obi supporters completely ignorant. He admitted to have invested state funds into businesses in which he a part owner! Do you know what that means?
People like Obi is the reason why a British prime minister referred to Nigeria as a fantastically corrupt country.
Dolts like you are now so used to it that you can no longer distinguish between what is corruption and what is not.

When was Peter Obi cross-examined and admitted having invested state fund into the business ventures which he is a part owner? The goon in this discussion is ill-informed scoundrel such as you who tend to make hay out of innuendos.

asanausana91:
when zombiedients and ipob were clapping for Peter obi because he was invited to commission a flyover he has never build.
If flyover is useless, why is he going to commission what is useless?

In one post, you have shown inherent daftness. Where did you pick up the whiff of uselessness that is pertinent to overpass?

ElSudani:
Doubling down on stupidity. What Obi did is criminal, pure and simple.

Based on a stream of thought which belongs to a canteen rat. In your world, criminality is dragging state from 27th out of 36 states to 1st.

Kingspin:
Over age man thinking..
I cannot remember anything special about Tinubu except those he enriched .

You could not be more correct on the bolded.

GodHatesJews:
You .

You betrayed all trusts and acted the fool to others early in our independence .

Murdered peace, c[b]arried out a bloody coup targeting leaders of other ethnicity[/b] , imposed your OSU selves as supreme rulers, destroyed regional governance and dragged this once promising nation into a senseless war all to the benefit of your Jewish masters who benefited immensely from your stupidity and ended up owning the oil and dragging us down with war debt.

Your stupidity can not be calibrated .

The ranting of a rat. You have written ignorantly. Only a dingbat would even attempt to calibrate stupidity. I guess you are a scoundrel who would want to carry earth on his/her head. What a useless dunce.

Yes, Thiefinubu is a unifier of people of low mentality.

BabaAgba79:
BAT will undoubtedly win the Feb 2023 Presidential Election. BAT will definitely perform very well! It will just be like 1999 under Obasanjo that the South West and some of the South East thought he would not do well. Obedients, BAT will shock you guys and you will see prosperity! Unfortunately, Obi will throw Nigeria into the pangs of hunger and gnashing of teeth just like Buhari has done. People thought Buhari would do well, but he failed. BAT is a great performer! A builder of people! A considerate man! A man of the people! A generous fellow! May I see prosperity like BAT! BAT A renewed hope for Nigeria!

The caption of your silly post would have been great if it reads "Can't Just Wait to See Republic of Oduduwa transformed under Asiwaju Bola Tinubu". Nigeria is in vegetative form.

DennisEche:
Mr Project, Come to River State in the Next 20 years you will see the mark of Wike Projects but some people are making us to believe OBI turned Anambra to Dubai but it is not visible. God bless Soludo

Nigerians have a way with stupid analogy. Dubai is a responsibility of a country. Anambra State does not even have one federal presence talk less of being the responsibility of federal republic of Nigeria. Nobody is making you think Peter Obi even attempted to turn Anambra State into Dubai. You are being screwed by silly figment of your imagination.

GodHatesJews:
Its only failing to register in your Okoro skull that Nigerians have not yet seen the Igbo as being trustworthy of power .

Who the hell made you and fellow moronic Nigerians the arbiters of trustworthiness?

GodHatesJews:
Lol

Nah me call them Jew or nah dem wear the condemned name plate with Jew on their neck?

Or you now want to deny that no Igbo ever claimed his black ass was Jewish ?

Bloody liars

The bolded is a typical hallmark of deluded Nigerian. Only a moronic dingbat can piggyback. For the sake of posterity, did Yoruba people declare themselves as Muslim?

Seefinish:
for your information I am not an Igbo. Hypocrite like you who speaks from both sides of their mouths are quick to see evil in others whereas you are celebrating the said evil around you. Condemn Tinubu's drugs case first

Does the malnourished goon ever realize everybody on Nairaland is not Igbo?

GodHatesJews:
Coming from a Congo Jew rat that wanted to appropriate Jewish false chosenite status to elevate his slave ass as a superior of his betters.


We saw the fraud of Igbo Zionism as a revisionist attempt by the lesser Igbo to rewrite his zero history and pedigree by attaching false claims to world Jewry .

Chosenite my ass.

Nigeria has most typical fools in the world. Believe me you are counted as one. You have moronically referred to a person as a Jew, yet you know absolutely nothing about the person. The act of throwing names around is a make of idiocy. Do not appear in the same job interview with a canteen rat because you could embarrass your silly ass. Pocket this advice.

GodHatesJews:
OSU slave wants to narrate the indoctrinated goyim version handed to him by Radio Biafra.

How can a people be so gullible and easily corralled like the Igbo cretin?

Tufuakpa.

Oga lecture me on your understanding of Zionism

I had known the Abobaku in you will soon show up. From your idiotic posts, a person can easily decern you are a jackass with animalistic intellect. I guess you believe "racism" does exist.

GodHatesJews:
You can only lie to yourselves in that your blighted Zio shithole.

The Zombidient movement is made up of displaced IPOB cretins who took possession of Obi's campaign as the legions of demons driven out by Christ into the herd of pigs

The Zombidient remains the exorcised demons of IPOB and by their lack of decorum and manners we have identified them alongside the fun fact that all Zombidients of today where staunch IPOB pigs this time last year.

As I said, you deceive no one but yourselves.

It is safe to say you are one among numerous reasons Nigeria is a glorified pigpen. I know there are decent fools in Nigeria, but you seemed to have another class to yourself. You have shown the reason most Nigerians cannot secure a job from foreign outfits.

GodHatesJews:
You will be exposed as the tool of Zionism, you crass pygmy negroid Jew rat wannabe.

Shut up your putrid loudmouth. What the hell do you know about Zionism?

GodHatesJews:
Oh really.

I am so daft that I can see the bipolar mood swinging political aspirations of the Igbo that did a 180 from burning down the Zoo to now singing kumbaya one Nijeriya song.

You are the idiots to think any sane person will fall for your lame gimmicks

I guess it takes one dumbass idiot to recognize another. The last time I check though, IPOB resolutely stood for the actualization of Biafra. In addition, Peter Obi and his supporters, which include non-Igbo, have not stood up for disintegration of shithole called Nigeria. If Obi had vehemently declared for desolation of Nigeria, I bet your peanut brain Labor Party would not have recruited him as the party's flagbearer. I really do not think you and your idiotic opinion factor into any crap obtained from the shithole called Nigeria. Again, you write idiotically.

ganisucks:
Soludo gave his opinion expecting a response. The youths gave their own opinion accepting his challenge. So you're saying the prof has a right to air his opinion and the youths don't. They should just roll over and accept his opinion as the right one. You're obviously not ndigbo. Igbos are proponents of diverse views not an echo chamber.

Please, do not pay any mind to the dingbat. You simply cannot teach a stone.