₦airaland Forum

Creamypie:
He was a friend of africa. Rolf steiner is still alive,, in his mid 90s lynn Garrison is still alive. In his 80s. How I wish I can visit them.

Okwyjesus:
Good one from the lgbos. Gratitude for his role in his lifetime

This referred to the civil war in Nigeria that ended 50 years ago this month. It stemmed from the decision of the people of the eastern region of that already riot-racked country to strike for independence as the Republic of Biafra. As I learned when I got there as a BBC correspondent, the Biafrans, mostly of the Igbo people, had their reasons.

The federal government in Lagos was a brutal military dictatorship that came to power in 1966 in a bloodbath. During and following that coup, the northern and western regions were swept by a pogrom in which thousands of resident Igbo were slaughtered. The federal government lifted not a finger to help. It was led by an affable British-educated colonel, Yakubu Gowon. But he was a puppet. The true rulers were a group of northern Nigerian colonels. The crisis deepened, and in early 1967 eastern Nigeria, harbouring about 1.8 million refugees, sought restitution. A British-organised conference was held in Ghana and a concordat agreed. But Gowon, returning home, was flatly contradicted by the colonels, who tore up his terms and reneged on the lot. In April the Eastern Region formally seceded and on 7 July, the federal government declared war.

FreeStuffsNG:
Remember to give honor and gratitude to Prof Wole Soyinka too if you truly show gratitude
Or it because Prof. Wole Soyinka is Yoruba or his skin colour that will make you to forget him as not deserving of your gratitude?

Those dressings are all 100% foreign dressing.

Poor manner of dressing yet no single authentic African attire or dressing in the picture and that plum woman's dressing is awfully depressing for such event.

May God console the associates and relatives of late Pa Frederick Forsythe.

AustineE1:
A friend of Ndigbo!you will forever be remembered...je nke oma!!! ezigbo enyi ndigbo! nwanne dinamba! odogwu nwoke!!!
ADIEU.

FreeStuffsNG:
Remember to give honor and gratitude to Prof Wole Soyinka too if you truly show gratitude
Or it because Prof. Wole Soyinka is Yoruba or his skin colour that will make you to forget him as not deserving of your gratitude?

Those dressings are all 100% foreign dressing.

Poor manner of dressing yet no single authentic African attire or dressing in the picture and that plum woman's dressing is awfully depressing for such event.

Appreciate our Yoruba mothers who sent clothes too.

May God console the associates and relatives of late Pa Frederick Forsythe.

FreeStuffsNG:
Remember to give honor and gratitude to Prof Wole Soyinka too if you truly show gratitude
Or it because Prof. Wole Soyinka is Yoruba or his skin colour that will make you to forget him as not deserving of your gratitude?

Those dressings are all 100% foreign dressing.

Poor manner of dressing yet no single authentic African attire or dressing in the picture and that plum woman's dressing is awfully depressing for such event.

Appreciate our Yoruba mothers who sent clothes too.

May God console the associates and relatives of late Pa Frederick Forsythe.

shortgun:
While the British government was arming Nigeria to bomb hospitals, markets and schools in Biafra… while millions of Igbo children were starved to death as food was deliberately blocked — Frederick Forsyth called it what it was: genocide.

Not civil war.
Not a complex conflict.
Genocide. Sponsored by the same Britain that pretends to care about human rights today.

He quit the BBC because he refused to be their mouthpiece for murder. While British media played dumb and sanitized the slaughter, Forsyth looked the empire in the face and said You’re not peacekeepers — you’re accessories to mass murder.

He dragged the truth into the open. He exposed how the same country that preached democracy was supplying arms to kill children for oil. He watched Biafrans die in their millions and didn’t flinch or spin it into diplomatic bullshit.
He reported it, raw and honest.

We are not going to water this down and pretend his legacy is just about novels.
Frederick Forsyth had more integrity in one article than the entire British media establishment put together.

The rest of them can rot in their polished lies.
Forsyth earned respect not for where he came from but for standing with the truth when it was dangerous, unpopular and career-ending.

Rest in defiance, Frederick.
You did what cowards wouldn’t.
The blood you spoke for will remember.

slivertongue:
Goodnight Sir Frederik. The country is still at war

Igbophobia:
He was no friend of Ndigbo but a British spy. I guess in his old age his conscience started whipping him over his ignoble role in passing important Biafran secrets to the Mi6.