₦airaland Forum

MugabeRobert:
Are you minding the ungrateful parasites? We gave peace and they paid us back with constant abuse of our traditional values. Can they try half of what they are doing in southwest in the north? Heck, can they insult Emir of Kano the way they did to Kabiyesi?

luvmijeje:
The next thing for the Yorubas to do in order satisfy the Igbos is to cut the Oba's head.... We don't have the right to tell you how to respond, you also don't have the right to tell us how to respond to your response

Revisionist at work...... Why were they attacked? That's how hatred for a tribe is passed from one generation to another.


Agreed...... But you don't insult a tribe by re-writing their history through saying Lagos is no man's land. By the way, where were you during the last Anambra election? How come you didn't write all this long epistle to condemn Obi and Nzeribe for their politics of hatred?

iwriterng:
My problem with Chimamanda is how she's is always painting the Igbo tribe as a victim of modern Nigerian.

Yes! The oba's statement is full of folly! Yes! No sane human being should utter such silly words, especially when it is directed to a particular set of people. But to ride on the tide of a statement made by an illiterate shows how badly Chimamanda wants to play the "Igbo card" in any of her piece.

She said it herself! There is danger in single stories, they are stereotype and stereotypes are always incomplete. Start the story of Biafra war from how Igbo's were starved to death and you have a completely different story, start with the actions of Ojukwu and you have another story entirely.

The first Nigerian coup (1966) has Igbo written all over it. Maybe we should
start telling the story of Biafra from there.


I respect her works, but I really hope she would stop seeing the 1960 incident from Achebe's perspective and read the story from another angle.

VirginFinder:
Most ibo Nairalanders are semi-literate just like you.
I cant fathom why.
It's 'curse' not 'course'.

@OP ibos should stick to their business and stay out of our local politics.
Any attempt to dabble into it will spell doom as we can all see.
That's all!

Peterbif:
Once you become tribalistic in your writing, you reduce your world of influence and impact! I always see that igbolistic sentiment and side-taking in all your writings anytime you comment on national issues; it shows that you are not patriotic and can't never be a national heroine. That is the reason i stopped reading any of your write-ups because they are lop-sided, wonky, rickety and full of tribal soulfulness and faintness, and always lack consigned objectivities. Why are igbos blaming any tribe in Nigeria anytime they face intimidation? To every action, there is a reaction! The igbos should ask themselves what is the problem with them. The truth is that no tribe trusts igbo in anything and they always want to take over what belongs to other tribe. That's why the igbos can't govern this country anymore except miracle happens and they change their ways!

BuddahMonk:
Nigeria is not a country, here is just a battleground for ethnic and tribal supremacy.

North voted Buhari they are reasonable voters.
East voted Jonathan they are tribalist.
The vultures are always in the middle

Zenanted:
Pls answer sincerely... what does the oba's words portray?

phantom:
chimamanda as usual, is on point!!!! i have said repeatedly,that nigeria has not moved an inch from 1967. the nation has been on 'pause'.

nigeria is not a nation!! we are just a group of people 'existing'.

Descartes:
Oops!! Errors too many.

lygn19:
me I wonder o, they keep talking as if d igbo's in lagos were given free land, and dat they accomodate them by bringing food to give dem every morning and dash dem money everytime..

Somebody wud be suffering for over 20years, some of dem start off hawking things, from there they get blessed and they rent their own shops, from there they get a big business, build a house and get married. and is now comfortable

While dat person was busy running under d hot sun hustling on his own, most times he slept under d bridge, slept in empty stomach this ppl didn't remember them, but once they make it,they wud come and say they made it because yorubas are accommodating

If sm1 goes to Lagos and seats down would a Yoruba man come and say take my land, I am dashing u.... dz ppl just keep talking out if ignorance.

cobsol:
They all scared of the Igbo's..... they obviously know our capabilities so they wonder what will become of them if we pull together!

A Yoruba man is naturally lazy and backward, before you kill me, apart from Lagos which no mans land, please visit Yoruba home towns and see how poverty eaten deep.

#bringthelagoon-on
#foolishoba

delors:
Lady Chimamanda, can you please stop this long forgotten discourse? Everyone pricks on molehill to create mountains so they could remain relevant. Lady Adichie is no exception here.
The Oba spoke as a man (just like every other human) but in strong yoruba metaphors intelligible to everyone but the igbo nation, being who they are, intentionally twisted the context to draw sentiments and instigate non-existing hatred...That's opportunism.
Saying the Ibos should be grateful for being welcome in Lagos shouldn't be taken too far...I wonder why you didn't include the north east states in your discourse where non-hausas are treated with grave suspicion, hatred and skepticism. Why do the hausas descend on non-hausas whenever a little misunderstanding arises? Why are non-indigenes not Openly welcome in the north? If you are blind to that area then your seemingly intelligible discourse (apologetic to your kindred alone for obvious reasons) which tends to hide under the guise if 'nationalism' is nothing but a sentimentally conjured discourse.
Broaden your view to capture the real issues and don't just jump on molehill issues to escalate it.
I honestly have no time for you now pretty lady, our talk, another day.

BuddahMonk:
Nigeria is not a country, here is just a battleground for ethnic and tribal supremacy.

North voted Buhari they are reasonable voters.
East voted Jonathan they are tribalist.
The vultures are always in the middle

Ymodulus:
I think I will start by trying to be Anthropomorphic, as it will bet express my heading.
Its really sad when insanity realizes that he has a mental disorder then he is as good as cured. The moment a people come to terms with their complex problem which often place them at loggerheads with their host communities the better for them.

I seem not to fathom how a tribe claim to have suffered humiliations and deprivation from other ethnic nationalities. This allegation should be consider very weighty even though it was not substantiated. Nonetheless, this aggrieved ethnic nationality needs to ask herself what is about it that could be responsible for the purported hostile acts of other ethnic nationalities toward it.

One problem I have with Chimanda is all her articles tends to quote Chinua Achebe, even when its evident chinua actions are wrong. The sane mistake she made, about his book "there was a country". Now she is trying to say that the Igbo's were murdered in early 1960's for political reasons? Who started the war? Was it the Nigerian Arny or The late Ojukwu ? I see Chimabda is biased. And she is just a staunt re-echoer of Chinua Achebe's belief.


I liked the fact that she related the massacre of the Ibos in different parts of the country before the civil war. However what I do like to ask her is this,

1. chimanda was there nothing that led to the massacre?

You can't deny that the tendency to dominate in another man's land which is being exhibited now by taking the Oba to court is what led to such. Tell me when you come back from court if the people of Lagos will still have a good relationship with the Ibos.


[color=#990000]Chimanda while trying to play a neutral ground at the surface, is been biased deep down. I am sorry to say but if Chimanda spent her time writing this, she wasted that time. As this just further lowered NY respect for her as an internationally recognised writer. Novel is her thing not politics.

Just imagine how shez is spreading lies about 1960s massacre. Posterity Judge you. [/c she stated the reason why people do maltreat the ibo. You were just too blind to see it. The reason is jealousy. The lazy tribes are jealous of their prosperity.

Mcleo007:
You delude yourself by two key points in your comment; "domination" and "smarter". In as much as the terms are relative, it does little on the part of intellectual auto critique. I'll educate you on that now. No one person or group is /can be dominant or smarter than the other. That the Igbo's largely engage in, and consequently thrives in petty trades, menial hustle, wholesale dealership and more, doesn't make them better at it than others. These are things any human can do to survive. Trade is not limited by culture, time and space.

What you don't know, doesn't hurt you, they say! Call two Igbo billionaires today, and I'll name 10 industrialists/billionaires who are Yoruba. Yoruba people dwell more on industrialisation than ventural businesses with limited employment enhancement and affluence.

I often hear people say the Igbo people largely helped to develop Lagos; that for me is an insult to the aborigens and other Yoruba's in the state. There are other ethnic groups in the state, in large numbers too; Edo, Ebira, Ijaw, Hausa. Whatever happened to these sects! That they don't rent shops in Ikeja and sell spare parts in Ladipo and Alaba make their contributions to the state any less?

Take politics for example; that the Igbo's are naively malignant in political relevance make them any less smarter than the Hausas and Yoruba's who are more elite in that light?

You see my friend, the Igbo's are not better than anybody than themselves. And the assumption of envy from the Yoruba's, and aspired domination of Lagos is such a silly thought too.

manchy7531:
They are a conquered people yet they are beating you guys blue and black in your own backyard, winning electoral offices, have taken over your markets and land, and the north giving orders to your leaders....Infact you guys are slaves.

Politically conquered by the north and socially and economically conquered by the east. Dont worry, i understand how shameful and depressing it is to be yoruba.lazy people

Steve87:
The Igbo's have been busy developing Lagos and today Oba Akiolu wants to let them know that " I am the land lord" ....

cobsol:
They all scared of the Igbo's..... they obviously know our capabilities so they wonder what will become of them if we pull together!

A Yoruba man is naturally lazy and backward, before you kill me, apart from Lagos which no mans land, please visit Yoruba home towns and see how poverty eaten deep.

#bringthelagoon-on
#foolishoba

Ymodulus:
Chimanda while trying to play a neutral ground at the surface, is been biased deep down. I am sorry to say but if Chimanda spent her time writing this, she wasted that time. As this just further lowered NY respect for her as an internationally recognised writer. Novel is her thing not politics.