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Two of the five most intelligent African tribes suffered genocides. Is it mere peer tribe jealousy or the hand of the colonialists?

In the case of Nigeria, it has long been established that the British were behind the scene teleguiding the genocide against the Igbo. In fact, they even blacked out the killings such as bombing of Igbo markets and hospitals. The same British had their military instructors and weapons for Nigeria. The objective was simple - the Igbo intellect as black people was a threat to the colonialists.

I made this comment on the second page:

What people do not understand is that the world has never really been unipolar. Even when the white man's history claimed Rome was the world power, in far away China, there was a great empire, the Mongolian that balanced things even though the two empires may not have been in regular contact. Even Carthage sort of balanced Rome before it was destroyed. After the fall of Soviet Union, we now have China acting as a counterbalance to the United States.

What you'll notice in all these is that countries that are great consciously project their best through meritocracy. Those that project incompetence end up at the bottom of the race.

It has been established that the colonialists consciously projected tribes and groups who are more amenable to their interests and so less interested in the interest of natives. I think it's intentional because Africans are seen as less human and more of guardians of resources meant to feed the white man's greed. This is why there has been no African country where tribes with innovative and progressive traits were encouraged by the West to control power. This is why both the Tutsis and Igbos had to fight existential wars. The good news for Africa is that the Tutsis succeeded. Now about the Igbos.

Do you know why the Israel-Iran war lasted less than a week while the Israel-Hamas (Palestine) wars has lasted 2 years and counting? The reason is that both countries were prepared. I mean that unlike Hamas, the Iranians had something to bargain with - their missiles with the capacity to deliver warheads on Israel. Why were the Iranians prepared? They recognized the importance of merit unlike African countries like Nigeria still stuck on white man's biases against tribes with innovative traits and superior intelligence. You see, until Africans start asking themselves serious questions, the continent will never stand shoulder to shoulder with any other on earth. It is one thing for other races to regard you as subhuman and another for you not to get your acts together because of petty jealousy

You see Iran, Pakistan, India, Singapore, Malaysia and other near and far east emerging powers? Do you think they are all of superior intelligence than all Africans whose countries are practically moving in circles as warehouses for the white man's vision? Most of these countries got their independence less than 20 years before most African countries did. But today, in terms of progress, the comparison doesn't exist. Why? Africans are fixated on tribal squabbles and envy. They'd rather pull one another down than project merit. I earlier asked why Igbo children would be required to score close to 200 in the same exam some tribes can pass with score of 6. Tribal jealous. The Nigerian government feels that Igbo advancement is a threat to them, not realizing that it is a catalyst to an African renaissance.

Are you aware that as early as 1967 when the Igbo fought for independence under the defunct Biafra, they actually built rockets, missiles, war ships, armoured vehicles, bombs, airstrips, and even refined petroleum? Feats that Nigeria cannot accomplish today without paying the white man. Something must be wrong somewhere. Now let's compare... Are you aware that the nuclear bomb world powers are fixated on today was first muted and so originated from Germany? Even missile technology that gave birth to space technology and the jet engine? Yet when the Allies defeated Germany, they embraced these technology from the defeated Germans and consolidated it? But in Nigeria, all Igbo war technology was buried probably under the supervision of the British colonialst. Why? They see Africans as subhumans who should never rise to counterbalance their global dominance.

Why are Africans different? Why is Africa the only continent where all it's wealth serves the interest of white man's greed? Why don't Africans ask themselves why a white man should come to Africa and take her gold, silver, diamond, crude oil, gas, copper, cobalt and other non replenishable resources and leave the black man with paper the same white man prints in his country? In summary, the reason is that most African tribes are not really intelligent, MOST. That's why theor natural inclination aligns with the white man's policy of suppression of the few who are and so ask the right questions.

I'll leave you with the story of Japan. As early as the 16th Century, the Portuguese were already in Japan, but could get nothing out of the country. This was the same time Africans were already selling one another to the white man for mirrors and gin. For more than 200 years, Japanese refused to trade with the Europeans. In fact, they insisted that what they wanted was guns while the Europeans wanted to fool them the way they fooled Africans. After decades of frustration, the Portuguese ambassador to Japan wrote a letter to the king of Portugal and asked that the king reconsider the policy and trade on Japanese terms. A Japanese Shogun bought a few European-made guns and the shogungate studied how the guns were made and started making their own guns. In less than 20 years, there were more guns in Japan than there were in all of Europe that no European army dared tried to colonize Japan.

I earlier mentioned the letter the Portuguese ambassador wrote to the Portuguese king. Are you aware that at that same time that African tribes such as Benin empire also had Portuguese ambassadors? Let me tell you how the ambassador signed off the letter. Marginally rendered, he wrote "... this is not Africa."

DomPerignon:
You were eating yourselves and selling each other into slavery before the British came and put an end to your madness.

If not for British intervention and colonial rule , you would have eaten and harvested yourselves into extinction

Seun, why don't you do something about this? Nairaland is a place you hardly see intelligent discussions unlike what we see elsewhere. I remember even Zimbabwean Diaspora forum how things were there. Let's not talk about Quora and Reddit with tens of millions of users. Is it the standard of education we have in Nigeria ir your mods don't know their jobs? How could someone make pedestrian comment that adds no value to a discourse. We are talking about why intelligent tribes seem to be most maligned in Africa and some obtuse fellow is commenting nonsense?

Igbophobia:
Seun, why don't you do something about this? Nairaland is a place you hardly see intelligent discussions unlike what we see elsewhere. I remember even Zimbabwean Diaspora forum how things were there. Let's not talk about Quora and Reddit with tens of millions of users. Is it the standard of education we have in Nigeria ir your mods don't know their jobs? How could someone make pedestrian comment that adds no value to a discourse. We are talking about why intelligent tribes seem to be most maligned in Africa and some obtuse fellow is commenting nonsense?

You created a thread to spew your supremascist bs at the expense of other nationalities by falsely claiming without no single shred of empirical evidence that you are the smartest tribe in Nigeria and Africa.

You then went on to relate your usual paradoxical victimhood side by side your false supremascist agenda while pushing the totally false narrative of genocide carried out by Nigerian state on your people during the civil war when it has since been debunked that most of the deaths on your side were as a result of self inflicted famine that ojukwu used to maximise global attention and self pity .

You also decided to blame the British who contributed a lot to civilizing you and bring you into the light.

There's no roonhere for your usual half truths and outright fabricated and recycled Biafra propaganda. It may work amongst your circles but we won't allow you disturb us here with your lies and propaganda against Nigerians .

DomPerignon:
You created a thread to spew your supremascist bs at the expense of other nationalities by falsely claiming without no single shred of empirical evidence that you are the smartest tribe in Nigeria and Africa.

You then went on to relate your usual paradoxical victimhood side by side your false supremascist agenda while pushing the totally false narrative of genocide carried out by Nigerian state on your people during the civil war when it has since been debunked that most of the deaths on your side were as a result of self inflicted famine that ojukwu used to maximise global attention and self pity .

You also decided to blame the British who contributed a lot to civilizing you and bring you into the light.

There's no roonhere for your usual half truths and outright fabricated and recycled Biafra propaganda. It may work amongst your circles but we won't allow you disturb us here with your lies and propaganda against Nigerians .

Childish attempt to derail discussion without counter argument is immature.
Try making points to counter his argument, if you can't maybe you should move on.

Igbophobia:
Two of the five most intelligent African tribes suffered genocides. Is it mere peer tribe jealousy or the hand of the colonialists?

The British were also directly and indirectly involved in the prolonged Yoruba inter-tribal war early 20th century. It was supposed to enable the Yoruba disseminate themselves and weaken the king at Ife; making it easier for the British to take Lagos.

A country called Nigeria was about to be independent from foreign rule.
A Yoruba man proposed that a room should be created so that any group of people who don't feel like being part of Nigeria should leave, lgb0s said "NO" and classed it as treason.
An Ogoni man made an attempt to leave the country 6 years later, lgb0s went ahead and sqûàshèd him and his army then lined him up for death.

Few months later, same lgb0s annexed a few tribes and decided to leave Nigeria that same them made it an offense to leave.
They were st0pped, they took a big hit because they can't provide their own food yet went into war, they dîèd of stàrvàtîon.
They now taught it to their children that they saw that the country Nigeria won't prosper so they wanted to leave, they made it look like they are the only ones who had foresight, because other tribes don't want them to leave, those tribes came to murder them in their millions one fateful day when they were sitting peacefully and quietly in their homes.



lgb0s are so intelligent that they didn't have any reIevance until white men came and created Nigeria.
Nigeria gave lgb0s reIevance, they were just a group of prîmîtîvè people Iiving in hamlets and viIIages with scanty cIothings until white men came and gave them what they call their traditional attire today.

They are so intelligent that in their history, they haven't built any successful society that stand tall amongst it's peers.

naijaking1:
Childish attempt to derail discussion without counter argument is immature.
Try making points to counter his argument, if you can't maybe you should move on.

A discussion built on Iies and faIsehood is no discussion, comparing Rwandan civil war to Nigerian civil war and tagging it as gen0cide because u Iost to hûñgèr.
FalsefuIIy cIaiming to be the most intelligent tribe and bIaming the British when it was same British that gave u reIevance is not a discussion.

If we ask u to Iist what makes u intelligent, u will start talking about how ur foIks piràte goods in Aba.
We will counter ur Iies, we have let them fIy for too long.

JagabanBorgu:
A discussion built on Iies and faIsehood is no discussion, comparing Rwandan civil war to Nigerian civil war and tagging it as gen0cide because u Iost to hûñgèr.
FalsefuIIy cIaiming to be the most intelligent tribe and bIaming the British when it was same British that gave u reIevance is not a discussion.

If we ask u to Iist what makes u intelligent, u will start talking about how ur foIks piràte goods in Aba.
We will counter ur Iies, we have let them fIy for too long.

Argue intelligently since the topic is about intelligence. Even I am awed at the way you guys tell barefaced lies and actually convince yourselves you're telling the truth.So there was no genocide in Rwanda? You sure live in alternate reality.

Anyway, everyone knows that even your government recognizes the Igbo as the most intelligent. Why else would Igbo children be required to score higher than other ethnic groups to gain admission in same schools? Why else do you now rig university admission exams against Igbo states the way you rig elections and census against the Igbo?

All I see in your post is envy and not reason. Why did you attack Igbo and not Tutsi? Envy. If you have no intelligent viewpoint, let those who do contribute why the Igbo and the Tutsi, two of the most intelligent African tribes suffered genocide.

JagabanBorgu:
A country called Nigeria was about to be independent from foreign rule.
A Yoruba man proposed that a room should be created so that any group of people who don't feel like being part of Nigeria should leave, lgb0s said "NO" and classed it as treason.
An Ogoni man made an attempt to leave the country 6 years later, lgb0s went ahead and sqûàshèd him and his army then lined him up for death.

Few months later, same lgb0s annexed a few tribes and decided to leave Nigeria that same them made it an offense to leave.
They were st0pped, they took a big hit because they can't provide their own food yet went into war, they dîèd of stàrvàtîon.
They now taught it to their children that they saw that the country Nigeria won't prosper so they wanted to leave, they made it look like they are the only ones who had foresight, because other tribes don't want them to leave, those tribes came to murder them in their millions one fateful day when they were sitting peacefully and quietly in their homes.
lgb0s are so intelligent that they didn't have any reIevance until white men came and created Nigeria.
Nigeria gave lgb0s reIevance, they were just a group of prîmîtîvè people Iiving in hamlets and viIIages with scanty cIothings until white men came and gave them what they call their traditional attire today.

They are so intelligent that in their history, they haven't built any successful society that stand tall amongst it's peers.

When you are pathologically tunnel visioned about the Igbo, it's no surprise that you can't follow the topic.
The British went to India and caused so much hatred to build up between the Hindu and Muslims because they thought it would give them an administrative advantage to have a divided India, today we have Pakistan and India. They carried the same tactics to Africa: Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria.
The academic question scholars have been trying to answer is why tribes who have lived peacefully alongside each other the for thousands of years suddenly develop such hostility when the British arrived?
Maybe, it's a lesson the British learned from the Viking invasion and conquest of their own nation?
It's ok if this type of discussion is beyond your level, but you can shut up and learn, go research it, or simply to back to school.
The Yoruba fratercidal Kirikiri war lasted long not because of Igbos, but because of the British.
From Ghana to Sierra Leone, to Gambia, to Central Africa, to East Africa, the pattern is the same for the British. Try not to reduce this to a childish anti-Igbo tantrum.

naijaking1:
When you are pathologically tunnel visioned about the Igbo, it's no surprise that you can't follow the topic.
The British went to India and caused so much hatred to build up between the Hindu and Muslims because they thought it would give them an administrative advantage to have a divided India, today we have Pakistan and India. They carried the same tactics to Africa: Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria.
The academic question scholars have been trying to answer is why tribes who have lived peacefully alongside each other the for thousands of years suddenly develop such hostility when the British arrived?
Maybe, it's a lesson the British learned from the Viking invasion and conquest of their own nation?
It's ok if this type of discussion is beyond your level, but you can shut up and learn, go research it, or simply to back to school.
The Yoruba fratercidal Kirikiri war lasted long not because of Igbos, but because of the British.
From Ghana to Sierra Leone, to Gambia, to Central Africa, to East Africa, the pattern is the same for the British. Try not to reduce this to a childish anti-Igbo tantrum.

u just to be ranting crap, u purport to blame the British, yet your messiah Nnamdi Kanu is zoo proud to exit his citizenship of Nigeria as an Igbo man, to become an Oyibo slave in London?

Thank the British for your existence, they saved u from the riverine people of Biafra,efik ibibio & co, if not they would have sold all your ancestors to the white man.

favor914:
u just to be ranting crap, u purport to blame the British, yet your messiah Nnamdi Kanu is zoo proud to exit his citizenship of Nigeria as an Igbo man, to become an Oyibo slave in London?

Thank the British for your existence, they saved u from the riverine people of Biafra,efik ibibio & co, if not they would have sold all your ancestors to the white man.

And your point is
I know you are not capable of understanding the topic under discussion.

JagabanBorgu:
A discussion built on Iies and faIsehood is no discussion, comparing Rwandan civil war to Nigerian civil war and tagging it as gen0cide because u Iost to hûñgèr.
FalsefuIIy cIaiming to be the most intelligent tribe and bIaming the British when it was same British that gave u reIevance is not a discussion.

If we ask u to Iist what makes u intelligent, u will start talking about how ur foIks piràte goods in Aba.
We will counter ur Iies, we have let them fIy for too long.

Most of you lack wisdom and sound mind.

Do you know what is called genocide?

Dear Yorubas, please take bitterness away and try to learn, stop basking in ignorance.


The genocide against Igbos has nothing to do with the Nigeria Biafra civil war. The genocide happened before the civil war and it was the genocide that happened to be the imminent cause of the civil war. The genocide led to Ojukwu the then Eastern Region Military Governor to start political argument with Gowon to protect Easterners back then, which landed them in Aburi Ghana were they finally reached some agreements to deescalate the political crises rocking Nigeria and the agreement was for each of the 4 regions of Nigeria back then (Eastern Region, Western Region, Mid-Western Region, Northern Region) to become fully independent.


At Aburi Ghana, Ojukwu and Gowon agreed that each region will be solely in charge of their Police, Military and Resources whereby they remit a certain percentage to the central government headed by Gowon back then. Gowon agreed but on getting back to Lagos, British colonial masters (though they have left Nigeria but were still controlling things from afar) instructed Gowon to reject the Aburi Accord, reason being that the agreement does not favor other regions and the British government's interest in Nigeria, that Gowon must reject the Aburi Accord. They argued that the newly discovered crude oil in old Eastern Nigeria then will be too much for Eastern Nigeria to become too rich if Aburi Accord is implemented and that it doesn't serve the interest of Britain.



Because of this, Gowon delayed the official announcement of the Aburi Accord agreement on return to Lagos claiming he had Malaria infection, Ojukwu kept sending him Telegram to remind him to announce it to the nation, Gowon ignored because he has been instructed to reject it, so Ojukwu went ahead and announced it and Gowon woke up and said Aburi Accord will not stand.


The genocide against Igbos in the North continued unstopped so Ojukwu being the Eastern Region Military Governor summoned stakeholders in the East and asked them the way forward, they said since the Gowon federal government refused to stop the genocide against Igbos, that they want to secede from Nigeria. Ojukwu then advised Igbos all over Nigeria to return back to Eastern Nigeria, and then he declared Eastern Nigeria and independent nation called Biafra. Immediately he did that, Gowon declared a Police action to forcefully return Old Eastern Nigeria back to Nigeria. That was how the war broke out. Ojukwu mobilized all the elite Igbo military officers and commandos led by Col. Banjo a Yoruba man and Ifeajuna to head straight to Lagos the capital of Nigeria to capture Lagos and force Gowon to flee so as to end the war fast.


Google "1966 Northern Pogrom" , that was the genocide the op is talking about. It's not the civil war. When the genocide happened there was no war in Nigeria, only a political crises resulting from coups by Nigerian military (January 1966 coup led by Maj. Kaduna Nzeogwu and the counter coup led by Maj Theophilus Danjuma).


Please take away hatred and bitterness from your heart and learn. Everything no be gragra, na wa oh

naijaking1:
When you are pathologically tunnel visioned about the Igbo, it's no surprise that you can't follow the topic.
The British went to India and caused so much hatred to build up between the Hindu and Muslims because they thought it would give them an administrative advantage to have a divided India, today we have Pakistan and India. They carried the same tactics to Africa: Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria.
The academic question scholars have been trying to answer is why tribes who have lived peacefully alongside each other the for thousands of years suddenly develop such hostility when the British arrived?
Maybe, it's a lesson the British learned from the Viking invasion and conquest of their own nation?
It's ok if this type of discussion is beyond your level, but you can shut up and learn, go research it, or simply to back to school.
The Yoruba fratercidal Kirikiri war lasted long not because of Igbos, but because of the British.
From Ghana to Sierra Leone, to Gambia, to Central Africa, to East Africa, the pattern is the same for the British. Try not to reduce this to a childish anti-Igbo tantrum.

It's unfortunate that the rest of Nigerian tribes refused to be wise and when they say Igbos are the smartest tribe in Nigeria, they get angry yet they refuse to apply common sense and wisdom that will make them to be seen as smart people.



They refuse to wake up and see that it was the British Colonial masters that brought the discord and disunity in Nigeria just as they did in virtually all nations they colonized and all those nations later realized and decided to disintegrate for peace, unity and progress of all involved.

Britain did it between Malaysia and Singapore, until Singapore seceded and Britain took over.


They did it in China but China mainland gave them tough time, they made Honk Kong China people dislike China mainland people until they pushed Hong Kong away.


They did it in India where they put serious enmity between Hindu dominated Indian side and Moslem dominated Pakistan side until India disintegrated into Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan in 1947, which later became India and Pakistan (later Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Bangladesh).


Britain did same in all African countries they colonized. It's kind of their colonial rule leadership style; identify the smartest tribe or ethnicity in any country they colonize, turn other tribes against the tribe they perceived as being too smart to question their authority. That way, you conquer the whole nation because a nation or people that are divided can never agree or stand.


British people are very smart and cunning people, they used that divide and rule tactics to rule the rest of the world


They tried penetrating Russia it didn't work. Tried in USA, succeeded to an extent but their fellow Europeans occupying lands in America resisted them. They did it in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, etc.


Even in Israel Pakistan

Ojukwu's case was one of pure self destruction.

At one point Ojukwu even refused to allow his own people to be fed because he thought that the negative publicity could help him win the War

Ojukwu's complete lack of conscience needs to be studied by researchers

Azikiwe made this speech after he had had enough of him


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEYj8vnR_wk?si=EyR38BmWDVigtm22

DomPerignon:
You created a thread to spew your supremascist bs at the expense of other nationalities by falsely claiming without no single shred of empirical evidence that you are the smartest tribe in Nigeria and Africa.

You then went on to relate your usual paradoxical victimhood side by side your false supremascist agenda while pushing the totally false narrative of genocide carried out by Nigerian state on your people during the civil war when it has since been debunked that most of the deaths on your side were as a result of self inflicted famine that ojukwu used to maximise global attention and self pity .

You also decided to blame the British who contributed a lot to civilizing you and bring you into the light.

There's no roonhere for your usual half truths and outright fabricated and recycled Biafra propaganda. It may work amongst your circles but we won't allow you disturb us here with your lies and propaganda against Nigerians .

Why are you attacking the OP with,una aged long lies and propaganda that was fabricated in lagos and Ibadan?

Now, let me make the bolded clear for intelligent minds. How did Ojukwu cause or create a self inflicted famine just for the sake of maximizing global attention and pity, when it's on record that Ojukwu was not the person that caused the war?

Secondly, it's on record that awolowo was the brain behind what you now tagged as "self inflicted famine" by Ojukwu. How can you be this petty just because you want to prove nonsense?

Lastly, did the great Igbos begged the British to come and bring them to civilization or to light?
Every sane minds in Africa (not only in Nigeria) knows that, the British came to this part of the world with ulterior motive. But people like you see British emergence to this part of the world as a kind gesture and you expect we the great Igbos to see you as a wise and intelligent person/people?

Igbophobia:
In the case of Nigeria, it has long been established that the British were behind the scene teleguiding the genocide against the Igbo. In fact, they even blacked out the killings such as bombing of Igbo markets and hospitals. The same British had their military instructors and weapons for Nigeria. The objective was simple - the Igbo intellect as black people was a threat to the colonialists.

The British are so scared of the great igbo intellectual ability. I know they would be shaking in their boots during the time you guys were doing that intelligent analysis of how Buhari was cloned to get Jibril el Sudani. Imagine the pandemonium in Britain when they read the intellectual discussion you guys had under the thread below. You're truly the most intelligent tribe in Africa. We are really jealous of you.

Mbanda:
Why are you attacking the OP with,una aged long lies and propaganda that was fabricated in lagos and Ibadan?

Now, let me make the bolded clear for intelligent minds. How did Ojukwu cause or create a self inflicted famine just for the sake of maximizing global attention and pity, when it's on record that Ojukwu was not the person that caused the war?

Secondly, it's on record that awolowo was the brain behind what you now tagged as "self inflicted famine" by Ojukwu. How can you be this petty just because you want to prove nonsense?

Lastly, did the great Igbos begged the British to come and bring them to civilization or to light?
Every sane minds in Africa (not only in Nigeria) knows that, the British came to this part of the world with ulterior motive. But people like you see British emergence to this part of the world as a kind gesture and you expect we the great Igbos to see you as a wise and intelligent person/people?

Nigeria was a country..

Biafra was a country..

How did Awolowo, a Nigeria caused famine in Biafra? Was Awolowo Biafra minister of Agriculture?

Igbophobia:
In the case of Nigeria, it has long been established that the British were behind the scene teleguiding the genocide against the Igbo. In fact, they even blacked out the killings such as bombing of Igbo markets and hospitals. The same British had their military instructors and weapons for Nigeria. The objective was simple - the Igbo intellect as black people was a threat to the colonialists.

Yet Mazi Nnamdi Kanu the freedom fighter ran to that Britain.

Yet Ojukwu the freedom fighter died in Britain, besides Ojukwu's father even provided a Rolls Royce for Queen Elizabeth during her tour to Nigeria.

A bunch of slaves complaining that their masters didnt make them chief slave after all their loyalty.

PulaPower:
Nigeria was a country..

Biafra was a country..

How did Awolowo, a Nigeria caused famine in Biafra? Was Awolowo Biafra minister of Agriculture?

Nigeria brought war to Biafra doorstep and awolowo was on the side of Nigeria and their British colonialists.

This is the height of delusion to claim that the ibos are among the most intelligent tribe in Africa, tribe like Yorubas , the south south, if the ibos achieved half of what they have achieved in all sectors, they will demand to walk on peoples head. It’s just shallow pride and delusion that god has made a part and parcel of them.

naijaking1:
Childish attempt to derail discussion without counter argument is immature.
Try making points to counter his argument, if you can't maybe you should move on.

His position is not childish, it is logical and I quite agree with him.

I think the assertion that "certain tribes are most intelligent in Africa" lacks statistical and empirical proves.

The topic is flawed ab-initio.

Igbophobia:
Argue intelligently since the topic is about intelligence. Even I am awed at the way you guys tell barefaced lies and actually convince yourselves you're telling the truth.So there was no genocide in Rwanda? You sure live in alternate reality.

Anyway, everyone knows that even your government recognizes the Igbo as the most intelligent. Why else would Igbo children be required to score higher than other ethnic groups to gain admission in same schools? Why else do you now rig university admission exams against Igbo states the way you rig elections and census against the Igbo?

All I see in your post is envy and not reason. Why did you attack Igbo and not Tutsi? Envy. If you have no intelligent viewpoint, let those who do contribute why the Igbo and the Tutsi, two of the most intelligent African tribes suffered genocide.

No one is envying the Igbo tribe, we don't care what you think, we are just living our lives.

If you want to leave Nigeria, please do without stressing us.

We are tired of your tantrums.

Igbophobia:
Seun, why don't you do something about this? Nairaland is a place you hardly see intelligent discussions unlike what we see elsewhere. I remember even Zimbabwean Diaspora forum how things were there. Let's not talk about Quora and Reddit with tens of millions of users. Is it the standard of education we have in Nigeria ir your mods don't know their jobs? How could someone make pedestrian comment that adds no value to a discourse. We are talking about why intelligent tribes seem to be most maligned in Africa and some obtuse fellow is commenting nonsense?

I wrote "LMAOOOOOOOO" in a topic somewhere else and got banned immediately but seun and his boys had to wait until you complained before doing the needful. Nairaland is rigged against certain people

franchasng:
Most of you lack wisdom and sound mind.

Do you know what is called genocide?

Dear Yorubas, please take bitterness away and try to learn, stop basking in ignorance.


The genocide against Igbos has nothing to do with the Nigeria Biafra civil war. The genocide happened before the civil war and it was the genocide that happened to be the imminent cause of the civil war. The genocide led to Ojukwu the then Eastern Region Military Governor to start political argument with Gowon to protect Easterners back then, which landed them in Aburi Ghana were they finally reached some agreements to deescalate the political crises rocking Nigeria and the agreement was for each of the 4 regions of Nigeria back then (Eastern Region, Western Region, Mid-Western Region, Northern Region) to become fully independent.


At Aburi Ghana, Ojukwu and Gowon agreed that each region will be solely in charge of their Police, Military and Resources whereby they remit a certain percentage to the central government headed by Gowon back then. Gowon agreed but on getting back to Lagos, British colonial masters (though they have left Nigeria but were still controlling things from afar) instructed Gowon to reject the Aburi Accord, reason being that the agreement does not favor other regions and the British government's interest in Nigeria, that Gowon must reject the Aburi Accord. They argued that the newly discovered crude oil in old Eastern Nigeria then will be too much for Eastern Nigeria to become too rich if Aburi Accord is implemented and that it doesn't serve the interest of Britain.



Because of this, Gowon delayed the official announcement of the Aburi Accord agreement on return to Lagos claiming he had Malaria infection, Ojukwu kept sending him Telegram to remind him to announce it to the nation, Gowon ignored because he has been instructed to reject it, so Ojukwu went ahead and announced it and Gowon woke up and said Aburi Accord will not stand.


The genocide against Igbos in the North continued unstopped so Ojukwu being the Eastern Region Military Governor summoned stakeholders in the East and asked them the way forward, they said since the Gowon federal government refused to stop the genocide against Igbos, that they want to secede from Nigeria. Ojukwu then advised Igbos all over Nigeria to return back to Eastern Nigeria, and then he declared Eastern Nigeria and independent nation called Biafra. Immediately he did that, Gowon declared a Police action to forcefully return Old Eastern Nigeria back to Nigeria. That was how the war broke out. Ojukwu mobilized all the elite Igbo military officers and commandos led by Col. Banjo a Yoruba man and Ifeajuna to head straight to Lagos the capital of Nigeria to capture Lagos and force Gowon to flee so as to end the war fast.


Google "1966 Northern Pogrom" , that was the genocide the op is talking about. It's not the civil war. When the genocide happened there was no war in Nigeria, only a political crises resulting from coups by Nigerian military (January 1966 coup led by Maj. Kaduna Nzeogwu and the counter coup led by Maj Theophilus Danjuma).


Please take away hatred and bitterness from your heart and learn. Everything no be gragra, na wa oh

Yorubas, and I bet other tribes too, don't hate the igbos or reserve bitterness in their hearts against you.

The Yorubas should have better things to worry about, especially since livelihood and development in Nigeria is already tasking.

Nobody is fixated about your Igbo tribe, you are the ones killing yourself with negative emotions and feelings you habor in your hearts.