₦airaland Forum

franchasng:
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

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?

Wallade:
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.

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

gidgiddy:
It happened because both tribes were in the wrong colonial creation as some of you call countries

Tutsi's should never have been put together in one countries with Hutu's


And Igbos should never have been put in one country with Yoruba's

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.

KillahPriest:
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:
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

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.

Christistruth00:
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

Ojukkwu'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

stuffs2002:
If they were so intelligent, how come the British never handed overpower to them
If they were so intelligent, how come they are not qualified to rule Nigeria
If they were so intelligent, how come they are 3rd class citizens in Nigeria
If they were so intelligent, how come they are at the bottom in everything except crime in Nigeria
If they were so intelligent, how come they are the liability in Nigeria and their region is the poorest in Nigeria

stuffs2002:
If they were so intelligent, how come the British never handed overpower to them
If they were so intelligent, how come they are not qualified to rule Nigeria
If they were so intelligent, how come they are 3rd class citizens in Nigeria
If they were so intelligent, how come they are at the bottom in everything except crime in Nigeria
If they were so intelligent, how come they are the liability in Nigeria and their region is the poorest in Nigeria

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?

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.

SuperEagles:
I think you should be more worried about the foolish souls that open threads claiming to be most intekligent tribe.

Who certified what tribe intelligent n one that is not ? Where did they get their intelligence or lack of it from ?! Instead of this senseless wailing of yours.

Igbophobia:
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."

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.

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?

DomPerignon:
As at 1960 , Eastern Nigeria was passing strict legislation against public nudity .

All your wall of text ramblings does not in anyway prove you were a civilised people.

Basden's book confirms this not just with its detailed accounts but from its very title : "_Among the Primitive Tribe".

Note the adjective " primitive". No other tribe was referred to as "primitive" other than yours.

The Yoruba race was described as "highly sophisticated". The British met a very well civilised system of governance in the north that they decided to partner with the Fulani hegemony rather than displace them. The British anf past European explorers marvelled at the Bini kingdom.

What then makes you to state that you are the most intelligent race among other races in Nigeria were there are tonnes of historical accounts of Europeans detailing the savagery and barbarity that characterised your people till today?

Cope harder.

Oriental4:
There's no doubt that Biafra would have been in the league if the Asian Tigers by now had the country been allowed to stand, Unfortunately, not even Africans are aware they're mere pawns in the games of the West. However, I see younger Africans realize something is amiss. See that Burkinabe head of state for instance. I also see Kenyans and South Africans with deep understanding of where Africa's problems stem from.

Brenbentondiaz:
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.