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Please, I was really thinking about the East and West dichotomy and I began to wonder. The striking question is: is there really a dichotomy?

IN MARRIAGE
No other ethnic group in Nigeria gets married to the Igbos than the Yorubas. And among the major ethnic groups, the Igbos get married more to the Yorubas than any other. Then why the so much hate speech? Or, are these two major groups just being hypocritical?

IN ENTERTAINMENT
In entertainment (movie production and music) This two ethnic groups can not do without each other. It is so glaring. This is so clear in the movie-- Wedding Party. Even in Music you will find artists from both divide doing things together like twins. They make money together, commit crimes together, and do all sorts of things together, then I kept wondering what is left.


FASHION AND CULTURE
I have seen both ethnic groups copying from each other countless times. Seeing the Igbos rocking the Yoruba cultural attires and the Yorubas doing same gives joy. Despite the name calling, in my area, the biggest Yoruba bucca or 'food-spot' is being patronized more by the Igbos. They leak their fingers while eating the Yoruba. Likewise the Yorubas, I have watched them tear down Igbo soups like they are fighting war. Then I began to wonder, do these people really hate each other or they are just pretending?


CONFLICT WISE
I am in my early 30s and I was born and raised in Lagos but spent few years in the East. Truthfully, I have never seen or heard of any conflict between these two groups. Yes, they can fight, punch, curse, tear shirts like Hulk Hogan but no head will still role. Remember, at our homes even couples always have their own differences. I am still wondering.


IN LITERATURE AND IN DIASPORA
The closest are both ethnic groups in literature. I traveled to Kenya for ministration three months ago. After ministration we went to their shopping mall at Nairobi. We saw some Yoruba dudes, immediately tribal or ethnic differences disappeared. The excitement they exhibited for seeing us was so sweet. We felt same way too. But I am still not too sure they would have displayed such excitement if they had seen a core Northerner. Please I might be wrong, but take it easy with me. You know that to an average Yoruba man, if you are not an Hausa man definitely you're Igbo. I am still wondering where the dichotomy is.


POLITICS
This is the only place where these two people don't agree. BUT WHY THE DISTRUST IN THIS AREA? But if we can eat same food, intermarry, and show love in other areas of our lives why can't we replicate this in politics? Truly, the day the East and West will wake up in this regard Nigeria will change for good.

Please if you know how the East and West can meet in politics and how to amend these differences please make your opinion known. ONE LOVE

SO THIS IS WHAT THEIR CHAMPION CAN OFFER? INDEED THERE WAS A COUNTRY...

In fact, in my entire life I never knew karma is so fast until this administration started. Funny enough, most of my friends that campaigned and supported APC lost their jobs and many relocated to their villages. Non of them can even shout SAI let alone BABA. Madam Obi, take biscuit.............................................NTOOOORRRRRR!!!!

Hiswordxray:
What! this is just terrible. This can only be a lack of a proper understanding of Christ. We do not understand Christ as a result we create all kinds of terrible doctrines, doctrines that deny us of our glory.

"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus." (Gal 3:28).

In Christ there is nothing like male or female. Male and female only exist in the natural world but in the new creation there is no male or female all are one.

Why do you people always turn the Scripture upside down? Apostle Paul was referring to social classes in this regard and not genders. In what sense are we even equal? Let us all be realistic, God sees us as one people that needs His help, but He still knows quite well that our relationship with Him defer. Some are closer to God than the other. He listens to all prayers but He answers more those who have made His will their own will. Listen, there must be a leader. Even in heaven there is orderliness and hierarchies. Administrative works in heaven doesn't clash. All the angels in heaven do not have equal ranks. God had chose to replicate this same orderliness of heaven in earthly families to show us the shadow of the real thing that exist in heaven. So, He chose the man to be the physical, spiritual, social and financial head of the family not the woman. That is why I pity any man whose wife goes to church every Sunday while he stays back watching movie... Don't just be the financial head of the family, be the spiritual head.

Nairalanders don't ever lack what to say at any given time.







Waiting o, this people are just making Buhari their god. Which one be the human side of Buhari? A fallible human... A man whose life is full of errors, and who just have a limited time to live... awon aiye sha!!

Seriously, when the Igbos decide to enter into the business another tribe or people are known for, sincerely speaking, it means that the other tribe or people need to buckle up.





I have actually dreamt of when the Igbos will delve into this aspect of agriculture and business...

Please I want sincere reply. What is the possibility of the Igbos making exploit in this kinda business like the other ones they are known for?

Sincerely, I cried and wailed. I told my friends what I saw in Buhari, yet they ignored me. These friends of mine are all graduates, yet, I wondered why they couldn't think right. Or, maybe I actually saw farther simply because of my course of study-- Political Science. When Buhari said he would influence OPEC, I knew he was a disaster looming. When he refused media debate I knew he had nothing to offer. When he talked about turning 1naira to 1dollar I knew he had not even the basic economic idea. When he said he would feed all the pupils, I asked, with which money? (What is even the difference between N-Power and YouWin schemes of these two administrations?). To let my opponents in the spectators' arena understand that I wasn't arguing from a tribal point of view, I begged for another Hausa man instead of Buhari, but they ignored. I told them that the South Western politicians with premordial sentiments (Tinubu to be precise) are only using their media power to repackage Buhari, a religious and tribal bigot and an illitrate, yet, they called me a liar. I became an enemy to my childhood friends that were in APC's camp. I told them that PDP is bad but APC is just an organization of aggrieved politicians they have virtually nothing to offer, but they gave me the middle finger. There was no preplanned or tailored political and economic policy (it was glaring cause all the decamped politicians were aggrieved opportunists). My mouth was left agape in shock when an educated fella said that even if Buhari had presented a NEPA bill as his certificate that he would still vote for him. If the so called sophisticated and learned people had thought this way, it means that our educational system was and is still in shambles.

The first disaster was when it took him a whole six months to appoint ministers. As a political scientist and an analyst, I knew the adverse effects of this action. The second was his draconian economic policies that left many jobless, including the SAI BABA chanters and the "great trekkers" that trekked from Lagos to Abuja, and from Borno to Abuja. In fact, now, since all my sincere wailing fell on deaf ears, what I want to say now is that, I AM IN FULL SUPPORT OF THIS BUHARI. He must rule over Nigerians again. I and my family, and those that I can convince must vote for Buhari. I can't wait to vote him in. He is the best thing that has ever happened to stubborn Nigerians. I am not being sarcastic, but I must vote for Buhari. I have seen so many ex-SAI BABA chanters apologising but I don't care. I actually never knew KARMA is faster than magic until Buhari assumed office. I LOVE YOU BUHARI, and this time I will vote for you with all my heart.

sarrki:
The President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim, said on Thursday that the bank had concentrated on the northern region of Nigeria in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s request.

Kim and the Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, who spoke at separate press conferences in Washington DC, United States, also advised Buhari to invest in


things that would enhance economic growth.

Kim said, “You know, in my very first meeting with President Buhari he said specifically that he would like us to shift our focus to the northern region of Nigeria and we’ve done that. Now, it has been very difficult. The work there has been very difficult.

“I think Nigeria, of course, has suffered from the dropping oil prices. I think things are just now getting better. But the conversation we need to have with Nigeria, I think, is in many ways related to the theme that I brought to the table just this past week, which is investment in human capital. The percentage of the Gross Domestic Product that Nigeria spends on healthcare is less than one percent.”

He added, “Despite that, there is so much turbulence in the northern part of the country, and there is the hit that was taken from the drop in the oil prices. Nigeria has to think ahead and


invest in its people. Investing in the things that will allow Nigeria to be a thriving, rapidly growing economy in the future is what the country has to focus on right now.”

Kim also said, “Focusing on the northern part of Nigeria, we hope that as commodity prices stabilise and oil prices come back up, the economy will grow a bit more. But very, very much important is the need to focus on what the drivers of growth in the future will be.”

According to the World Bank boss, the bank will invest in human capital in other parts of Africa in order to prepare the continent for the next phase of growth.

Lagarde, in her remarks, said Sub-Saharan African countries, including Nigeria, had posted suboptimal


growth in recent times.

The growth figures, she said, were far too small considering the huge demographic potential of Nigeria and other countries in the region.

As a result, she said the IMF would be engaging ministers of finance and central bank governors from the region attending the annual World Bank and IMF meetings on how they could boost and stabilise economic growth.

Lagarde said, “The Sub-Saharan Africa is one region of the world where growth is suboptimal. Those countries grow at an average growth of 2.5 per cent. That is too low for the demographic expansion of the region.”

The IMF managing director said emerging and developing economies must invest more in their economies through infrastructural spending, strengthening safety nets, allowing women more access to the labour market and carrying structural reforms.

http://punchng.com/buhari-asked-us-to-focus-on-northern-nigeria-wbank/

If this sarrki guy can repent and post this kind of news about his pay master, hmmm, mehn! I am scared the devil might soon confess Jesus o

What about this: BUY YOUR SOLID MINERAL HERE. I can't forget this sign post in one relaxation joint or restaurant at Rumuchakara, Choba, Rivers State. I laughed till I graduated...

Mr. Truth Muhammed, oya over to you.

Trust me, this government will count this as one of their achievements. They are just looking for achievement up and down. Lol!

You

Nigerians, the way dis TSTV thing dey sweet my belle ehn! Walahi! Ibin if I no getam por telebision I go use am por radio.

life2017:
bitter truth

Mbaise diocese Bishop crisis come to mind.
Imo catholics rejecting a bishop because he is from Anambra.

You guys are getting it all wrong. There is no tribe in this world were we can't find disunity, even a miniature. In the biblical era there were some traces of disunity amongst the twelve tribes of Israel. Even in the Yorubaland there was Owu War before colonialism, and Ife and Moda Keke. It is everywhere disunity is not common with the Igbos. I have seen a Yoruba man castigating his fellow Yoruba man for no good reason.

When an Igbo man defends rubbish he does it with all his life, and when he defends the right things he still does it with all his life.

Bro, you don't have anything to say. Listen I had a friend back then in higher institution. We were so close. In fact, he used to come and spend sometime with me. He is an Ijaw man from Rivers State. One fateful day he was having an argument with a course mate that is from my side. He told this course mate of ours that Igbos are thieves. At first I ignored their unfruitful argument until he made that same comments 3 times. I called out to him and asked him if he knows what he is really saying. Instead he looked at his supposed best friend and angrily said to me: "You are all thieves!" That was my first time of being insulted in this life because I am an Igbo man. I was born and brought up in Lagos. I never experienced such. My WEAC fee was paid by Lagos State Government. I have been fed by the Yorubas. I am a pastor, and if I see a good Yoruba Christian babe I don marry am be dat. I had never experienced segregation in my life except in Port Harcourt. In fact, I told that my friend that the reason why our parents sent us to school is to make us better than them. Whatsoever story your father must have told you concerning the Igbos was just a single story, and there is danger in it. You have built a dogma on it. Then I told him: Now that you are an undergraduate, more educated and enlightened than your father, at least you should now be seeing life from a different perspective. Then I asked him: Your father claimed that the Igbos enslaved them, but has any Igbo man enslaved you since you came into this campus? You call Igbos thieves but you have squatted in my room so many times, have I ever taken any of your properties? Have I ever subjugated you? You are just dwelling on hearsay. I stopped and he couldn't answer any of my questions. In fact, it takes an enlightened mind to start seeing the next person as himself

There is so much sense in this piece. Why this struggle and unhealthy competition and hate speech? Let us spread this message please fellas. Actually I have never insulted a Yoruba man before. It won't cost us anything to unite, but it will cost us more to disagree.

The Igbos And The Yoruba ‘Cold War’; A Case For Southern Unity
thenewsnigeria.com.ng Aug 14, 2017 8:46 AM


“Power is like a shadow. It resides exactly where men who are under its control think it resides”

The above is true with regards to the situation of Southerners in the Nigerian experiment.
We think the Fulanis are the ones that have been holding power and because we think and believe so, it actually looks so. Because of this assumed knowledge, we hand over our destinies, our future and those of our children to a people who are not above 11 million, have little or no education and contribute little or nothing to the national pulse.

What if I told you that the real power rests in the South and with southerners but that the mutual distrust and foolish superiority contest between Igbos and Yorubas is the biggest obstacle to wielding this power? This senseless feud between these two Southern giants is also the biggest enabler and promoter of the
Fulani oligarchy.

The southern part of Nigeria owns the oil which feeds the entire country. Without the oil today, there is no economy and there is no Nigeria. The same south controls the commercial sector of the economy. The media is still owned and controlled by the South.

When a people owns the only thing that is feeding a whole country and still control commerce plus the media through which people’s thoughts and opinions about anything can be shaped and can equally boast of the best human resources, what else does it take for such a people to wield power in such a country?

Unity!

The few Fulanis who have been running this country directly and indirectly since independence, what do they have? Unity!

When the Fulani Oligarchs want to achieve an aim, they effortlessly find a way to get every northern minorities such as Christians and Middle Belts on their side even when they almost always end up discarding these same minorities and even killing them once the aim is achieved.

Now, ask yourself: how have the Fulani Oligarchs managed to turn the entire Nigeria into an ‘Animal Farm’ with them as the only “Napoleon’ despite their low education and the fact that all the prerequisites/bargaining chips for acquiring and wielding power are domiciled in the South?

Igbo-Yoruba ‘cold war’! This, right here, is the answer.

The day the two biggest southern ethnic groups –The Igbos and The Yorubas –decide to put a stop to their needless bickering and channel all their energy towards confronting their common enemy –the children of Danfodio–, that is the day the Fulani Oligarchs will understand that even though the king is the one with the crown, he is nothing without the kingmakers and the people.

The Fulanis are not runing Nigeria because they are smarter than others. Far from it. They are messing with the destinies of over 180million people because the two Southern big brothers with the wherewithal to end their murderous reign of impunity are busy chasing rats while their house is on fire.

I am no historian neither do I pride myself as a man of letters but I know for a fact that the biggest weapon of the Fulanis is neither guns nor bombs. Their biggest weapon is their ability to identify their opponents’ weak points or even create one where none exists, magnify it and use same to create division amongst them just so they would effortlessly implement their Divide And Rule tactics.

Sadly, they have succeded in using this weapon against Southern Nigeria’s two biggest ethnic groups.

Throughout history, all the wars and woes visited on both the Igbos and the Yorubas all came from the Fulanis. There is no record of ethnic clash between these two humane southern Nations. No time has these two people ever disagreed violently.

Strangely, the mutual suspicion that exist between these two great peoples seem far greater than the one they harbour against their common oppressor, the Scions of Dan Fodio.

It was not the Igbos who imprisoned Awolowo and killed thousands of Yoruba youths who protested the unjust imprisonment for days in different Yoruba cities in 1963. It was the Fulanis and the killing was done by another Fulani man, Muhammadu Buhari, who was the then platoon commander, 2nd infantry brigade, Abeokuta. That same year, Buhari was gifted with double promotion on the same day by the govt of Tafawa Balewa.

It was not the Igbos who imprisoned many Yoruba leaders, forced others into exile and killed others like Abiola after annuling his presidential victory.

It was not the Igbos who attacked Yoruba citizens in Lagos neither was it the Igbos who desecrated Yoruba cradle of civilisation, Ile-Ife by cutting off the head of a Yoruba citizen and parading it along the street, thereby sparking off a bloody ethnic clash that ended in the arrest of only the Yorubas including an Oba by the Fulani president and his Fulani security agents.

It is not Igbo herdsmen that kidnapped a Yoruba son, Chief Olu Falae and have been going about terrorizing and killing Yorubas in Osun, Ogun, Kwara etc with govt-sponsored impunity.

On the other hand, it wasn’t the Yorubas that killed thousands of Igbos in the 1945 Jos pogrom and 1953 kano pogrom. It was not the Yorubas who slaughtered millions of Igbos in the North after the first 1966 coup.

It was not the Yorubas who jailed an Igbo son, Alex Ekwueme who was only the vice president while the president, Shehu Shagari, a Fulani, was left in a cosy apartment in the govt house. It was a Fulani man, Muhammadu Buhari who did this in 1984 after overthrowing the then govt in a coup.

Was it the Yorubas that is holding Nnamdi Kanu? Or was it the Yorubas who rained bullets and acid on hundreds of Igbo sons and daughters praying inside a school field in Abia state on Feb.9th, 2016 and those remembering their Biafran heros inside a church in Onitsha on May 29-30, that same year? Is it Yoruba herdsmen that have been killing, maiming and raping villagers in Nimbo, Nsukka, Awgu Bende Council etc, all in Igbo land?

Today, even Jack, my two day old puppy knows that Nigeria CANNOT work as presently constituted. It was the rejection of the Aburi Accord by the Fulani Oligarchs which would have restructured Nigeria as a Confederation that led to the Biafran war. Today, the Yorubas want a restructured country. The Niger Delta want the same thing. The Igbos want Biafra BECAUSE Nigeria has refused to restructure.

Who are the only people resisting the call for restructuring, thereby holding everyone to ransom? Your guess is as good as mine.

Dear Yorubas and Igbos, what exactly are you dragging? Why have you refused to realise that you have a common enemy, a very ruthless common enemy who have kept you busy fighting among yourselves while he’s busy ruining your future and that of your unborn generation? Can you not see that your siblings; Ijaws, Urhobo, Edo, etc are all looking up to you for that ‘big brother’ leadership and direction?

Can’t you see that the Fulanis are not really the problem? You are! Your disunity is! You have no reason to be fighting.

Was it not a Yoruba man, Lt. Col Fajuyi, who chose to die with his visitor and commander-in-Chief, Thomas Umunnakwe Aguyi-Ironsi, an Igbo man, rather than give him up to the Hausa/fulani soldiers on 28th July, 1966? Was it not an Igbo man, Odumegwu Ojukwu, who released Obafemi Awolowo from calabar prison and sent a squad of Eastern Nigerian policemen who escorted him to Ikenne, Ijebu, his home town?

You pride yourselves as the two most educated people in the country, yet your best brains have been reduced to playing 2nd fiddle to the Scions of Dan Fodio who are mostly without even a secondary school certificate.

In 1979, it was one of the best Igbo brains, Alex Ekwueme, playing 2nd fiddle to Shehu Shagari. In 1983/84, it was Idiagbon playing 2nd fiddle to a Buhari who had no certificate.
In 2015, it is a Yoruba professor of law still in political purgatory under the same Fulani-born Muhammadu Buhari who has now acquired a certificate……..NEPA bill certificate.

Ojukwu is dead. So is Awolowo. And since I was born, Igbos and Yorubas have never killed each other. How about we put the gory stories of the war behind us and save ourselves and unborn children from this danger that is staring us in the face?

It is always the descendants of Dan Fodio doing all the killings, all the subjugation and slavery and we, the entire south have always been the victim.

In a nutshell, Novus is simply saying that the Igbos and the Yorubas should channel their energy towards confronting their common enemy. You can join forces to fight a formidable enemy and still remain ethnically patriotic to your respective ethnic groups!

Wisdom is profitable to direct.

Statsocial:
I agree with you. But I don't think it was right calling him a motivational speaker. Christianity leaves room for individuality but that doesn't make him less of a pastor.

It pains me when supposed men of God remove people attention from God. The scripture says, "Look unto Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith." But today our so called preachers have removed people's mind from God and turned it to themselves, the pastors or to themselves the people. Haven't you heard that "It is not by him that willeth nor by him that runneth but the Lord that shower mercy?" "Haven't you heard that horses are prepared for the day of battle but safety is of the Lord?" The "SELF" sin is the worst. And these are self sins: self-righteousness, self-promotion, self-centeredness, self-praise, self-confidence, selfishness, self-love etc

morereb10:
more @ http://www.exlinklodge.com/2017/08/clergy-warns-against-seed-sowing-god.html

Faith and Reasoning or Logic are antithetical. When you say the unseen things created the seen things it will still be illogical to that pastor. Listen folks, these days we have more motivational speakers than true pastors. That pastor is simply a motivational speaker. If you work hard without God's favour, grace or mercy you will never prosper. What about truck pushers, and street peddlers. How long will they hustle to make it? Bro., you even need God to open your eyes to see opportunities. You still need Him to order your steps to the right paths and right people. In fact, these days, Christianity is becoming a social gathering and less powerful. What is Christianity without the power of faith? the answer is: social gathering. Ask that pastor if he got his own wealth with his own strength. God shows mercy to whom He chooses to. Although God has never asked us not to put efforts, but He still wants us to come to the realization of the fact that it is Him that multiplies.

My people, is this not a suicide mission?

BREAKING: Arewa Youths On The Run, As The Very Courageous Biafra Leader, Nnamdi Kanu, Set To Storm And Shut Down Kaduna City

post-nigeria.com

Jul 31, 2017 6:16 PM

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It was shocking, as the embattled Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, confirmed plans to take his protest to Kaduna, after visiting Lagos State, next week.

In a video which was seen by Post-Nigeria, Nnamdi Kanu, stated that without fears before his enemies… he would go to Lagos, and that his friend, Dr. John Danfulani, invited him to Kaduna, hence he will go the Northerner State, without fear of molestation.

Post-Nigeria recalled, that the Biafra Leader released the statement of storming Kaduna, barely a few hours after the Arewa Youths were contemplating of withdrawing the October 1 quit order notice, given to all the Igbos residing in the North.

More later…

IGBO LANDING:
(alternatively written as Ibo Landing , Ebo Landing , or Ebos Landing ) is a historic site at Dunbar Creek on St. Simons Island , Glynn County , Georgia. It was the setting of a mass suicide in 1803 by captive Igbo people who had taken control of their slave ship and refused to submit to slavery in the United States. The event's moral value as a story of resistance towards slavery has symbolic importance in African American folklore and literary history.

HISTORY
In May 1803 a shipload of captive West Africans, upon surviving the middle passage, were landed by U.S.-paid captors in Savannah by slave ship , to be auctioned off at one of the local slave markets. The ship's enslaved passengers included a number of Igbo people from what is now Nigeria. The Igbo were known by planters and slavers of the American South for being fiercely independent and resistant to chattel slavery. The group of 75 Igbo slaves were bought by agents of John Couper and Thomas Spalding for forced labor on their plantations in St. Simons Island for $100 each. The chained slaves were packed under the deck of a small vessel named the The Schooner York to be shipped to the island (other sources say the voyage took place aboard The Morovia). During this voyage the Igbo slaves rose up in rebellion, taking control of the ship and drowning their captors in the process causing the grounding of the Morovia in Dunbar Creek at the site now locally known as Igbo Landing.

The following sequence of events is unclear, as there are several versions concerning the revolt's development, some of which are considered mythological. Apparently the Africans went ashore and subsequently, under the direction of a high Igbo chief among them, walked in unison into the creek singing in the Igbo language "The Water Spirit brought us, the Water Spirit will take us home". They thereby accepted the protection of their god
Chukwu and death over the alternative of slavery. Roswell King , a white overseer on the nearby Pierce Butler plantation, wrote one of the only contemporary accounts of the incident which states that as soon as the Igbo landed on St. Simons Island they took to the swamp, committing suicide by walking into Dunbar Creek. A 19th-century account of the event identifies the captain by the surname Patterson and names Roswell King as the person who recovered the bodies of the drowned. A letter describing the event written by Savannah slave dealer William Mein states that the Igbo walked into the marsh, where 10 to 12 drowned, while some were "salvaged" by bounty hunters who received $10 a head from Spalding and Couper. According to some sources, survivors of the Igbo rebellion were taken to Cannon's Point on St. Simons Island and Sapelo Island.

HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Igbo Landing was the final scene of events which in 1803 amounted to a "major act of resistance" by the Africans. These events have had enduring symbolic importance in African-American folklore and literary history. The mutiny by the Igbo people has been referred to as the first "freedom march" in the history of America. Although for more than two centuries most authorities considered the accounts to be an Afro-American folktale, research since 1980 has verified the factual basis of the legend and its historical content. The site was included as a historic resource in a 2009 county survey. The site bears no official historical marker. A sewage disposal plant was built beside the historical site in the 1940s despite local opposition by African Americans. The site is still routinely visited by historians and tourists. The event has recently been incorporated into the history curriculum of coastal Georgia schools.

MYTHOLOGY OR FOLKLORES
The story of the Igbo slaves who chose death over a life of slavery is a recurring story that has taken deep roots in African American and Gullah folklore. As is typical of oral histories, the facts have evolved over time, in many cases taking on mythological aspects.

Professor Terri L. Snyder notes:

REPORTED HAUNTING
Local people claim that the Igbo Landing and surrounding marshes in Dunbar Creek are haunted by the souls of the dead Igbo slaves.

LEGACY
In September 2002 the St. Simons African-American Heritage Coalition organized a two-day commemoration with events related to Igbo history and a procession to the site. The 75 attendees came from other states, as well as Nigeria, and Belize and Haiti, where similar resistance had taken place. They gathered to designate the site as holy ground and give the souls rest. The account of the Igbo is now part of the curriculum for coastal Georgia schools.
Representation in other media The historical events pertaining to the Igbo slave escape in Dunbar Creek, and the associated myth, have inspired and influenced a number of African-American artists. Examples include Nobel laureate Toni Morrison , who used the myth of the flying Africans in her novel, Song of Solomon, and Alex Haley , who retells the story in his book Roots . The
Paule Marshall novel Praisesong for the Widow also was inspired by these events. They are retold from the context of the Gullah descendants in the feature film Daughters of the Dust (1993), directed by Julie Dash . Other contemporary artists that allude to, or have integrated the complete tale of the Flying Africans in their work include Joseph Zobel ,
Maryse Conde , Toni Cade Bambara and
Jamaica Kincaid . Imagery from the "Love Drought" portion of Beyoncé's visual album
Lemonade are said to be inspired by Daughters of the Dust and the story of Igbo Landing.
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Heard about t the place where they bring the Ibos over in a slave ship and when they get here, they ain’t like it and so they all start singing and they march right down in the river to march back to Africa, but they ain’t able to get there. They gets drown.
The West Africans upon assessing their situation resolved to risk their lives by walking home over the water rather than submit to the living death that awaited them in American slavery. As the tale has it, the tribes people disembark from the ship, and as a group, turned around and walked along the water, traveling in the opposite direction from the arrival port. As they took this march together, the West Africans joined in song. They are reported to have sung a hymn in which the lyrics assert that the water spirits will take them home. While versions of this story vary in nuance, all attest to the courage in rebellion displayed by the enslaved Igbo.
Ain't you heard about them? Well, at that time Mr. Blue he was the overseer and . . . Mr. Blue he go down one morning with a long whip for to whip them good. . . . Anyway, he whipped them good and they got together and stuck that hoe in the field and then . . . rose up in the sky and turned themselves into buzzards and flew right back to Africa. . . . Everybody knows about them.
The flying African folktale probably has its historical roots in an 1803 collective suicide by newly imported slaves. A group of Igbo (variously, Ebo or Ibo) captives who had survived the middle passage were sold near Savannah, Georgia, and reloaded onto a small ship bound for St. Simon's Island. Off the coast of the island, the enslaved cargo, who had "suffered much by mismanagement," "rose" from their confinement in the small vessel, and revolted against the crew, forcing them into the water where they drowned. After the ship ran aground, the Igbos "took to the marsh" and drowned themselves—an act that most scholars have understood as a deliberate, collective suicide. The site of their fatal immersion was named Ebos Landing. The fate of those Igbo in 1803 gave rise to a distinctive regional folklore and a place name.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_Landing

I am not really a fan of Kanu, but sincerely speaking Nigerians are really tired of the system. My own opinion: the Igbos are one of the most politically conscious sets of people. their political apathy is simply because they don't believe in the system.

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Biafra: Northern Leader, John Danfunali Visits Nnamdi Kanu

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Jul 24, 2017 6:57 AM

Former lecturer with the Kaduna State University, Dr. John Danfulani and also the leader of the southern kaduna organisation, who was remanded in the Kaduna Prison for criticizing the administrative style of Nasir El-Rufai pays a solidarity Visit to the home of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

He said Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is a great leader who would save Christians from the murderous Nigeria, while he also backed the restoration of Biafra.

To some people this thread is a virus, while to some, it is nutritional. What a life!

Why will he contest and win when majority of Igbos don't want to remain in Nigeria? Bro, it is a clear fact that the Political apathy among the Igbos rises from the fact that the Igbos do not believe in the Nigeria system or dreams. The Easterners are the most socially and politically conscious set of people in Nigeria. If you are four sighted you will know that no youth both from the major and minor ethnic group has been able to stand against their political leaders like the Easterners. Do you know why I hate Nigeria so much? Nigerians are so tribalistic. Tribal sentiments blind even the most educated of them. Nigerians hate the truth and so much avoid it just like they will avoid this one bitter questions--- Are Nigerians united? Deep down within every soul in this country we know that we aren't united. Imagine a president of a country regarding other parts as 5%. If you know how bad that statement is, you will realize that we don't really deserve to be together. We hate each other. But why are we still hanging on this country? An average Igboman hates slavery and subjugation, they are freedom loving people.

I heard some saying that Igbos aren't united. Can any tribe in Nigeria organize its youths under one umbrella like this? The last time I checked I discovered that the Nnamdi Kanu is not even from Anambra State yet he commands respect over there. Yet you say Igbos can not speak with one voice? Just for the fact that two politicians from the East are fighting each other for selfish reasons shouldn't make you to draw conclusion that the Igbos aren't united. Politicians are same everywhere. I can mention ten Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani Politicians that are antagonistic to their tribes men.

If only we can remove state of origin in our constitution and put state of residence. If only we can enshrine meritocracy and displace federal character or favoritism. If only we can kill the idea of indigenship or host and stop seeing others as foreigners for all to live as one. But we all know that these are so impossible in Nigeria. Then, since we can't take each other as one why must we stay together?

It is like accusing Northerners for the death of Abiola

Igboesika:
Most people that commented here are afonjass. Why are they always afraid of Biafra ?. May God help these people after Biafra exit because it must surely come.

I understand their fears shaa.

I still don't understand why the South West are taking this Biafra issue too personal. Even the Northerners do not panic the way the Yorubas do. I still wonder, why this so much hate from the Yorubas? It's like the existence of the Yorubas are threatened whenever Biafra in mentioned. Are they scared of how Lagos will be deserted when Biafra is achieved? Just thinking. Or are their hateful criticisms borne out of love for the Igbos? This I don't know. Seriously, based on my study I have realized that the Igbos are so confident of who they are. They so much believe in their God given abilities. Even with the so much propaganda from the South West media that there is virtually nothing in Igboland to fall back to, yet the Igbos aren't giving up. They said that they are landlocked, yet the Igbos aren't giving up. They are still thinking what next they can do to stop the Igbos from thinking Biafra. Are are they scared of Igbo dominance? Please, if it is the hate speeches Kanu made concerning the Yorubas, I strongly apologize on his behalf.

I can see panic in Shetima's face. You should learn not to bite more than what you can chew. But the simple truth is that there will never be a Nigeria anymore the moment the Igbos leave the Federation. Who wanna stay with the North? The Yorubas or Ijaws? Or the Jos people or Benue people that they are annihilating daily? In fact, this would have been a golden opportunity for Boko Haram and ISIS to swiftly take over the North. It is the strength of Nigeria's diversity that has made Nigeria indomitable.

Kyase:
idomas are staying with me already

The ones your brothers are annihilating? Tell yourself the truth, who go like to stay with the North? The moment Nigeria divides, then you'll see Abubakar Shikau regaining momentum. Boko Haram and ISIS will swiftly overrun the entire North in couple of years. In fact, it will be like Shekau's dreams to take the North are coming through. I don't mean to scare you, but this is a fact.

Kyase:
Deep within me, i want a Nigeria without the igbos, but my best friend, she's from enugu, and she always prefer Nigeria to Biafra

But the simple truth is that you can't have your Nigeria again the moment the Igbos leave. Who wanna stay with you guys? Yoruba or the Ijaws? Or Idomas? I laugh!