₦airaland Forum

Achiles:
You have quoted AWO out of context. He never meant that Nigeria was not a country. He only meant to express how woefully we have failed as a country in term of Nation Building.

Abagworo:
The reason I like politics as played by the Southwest is the relevance attached to welfare of the masses and interest of Nigeria as a whole. Awolowo did what is naturally done in a war situation as you cant be feeding and arming your opponents. If this interview actualy took place then I will assume Awolowo admitted his role and how incosequential it was.

My major question is why he refused to declare Oduduwa Republic as agreed with Ojukwu before his release.

AnambraDota:
My problem with Awolowo is that he said that Nigeria is just a mere geographical expression but when the opportunity for him to have his dream country he chicken out, few years later he didn't ask for restructuring of Nigeria to make a truely a country he wanted to rule the same geographical expression like that.

That is why God cursed him, he begged to rule just a day but no way, like Lazarus and the rich man.

Abagworo:
The reason I like politics as played by the Southwest is the relevance attached to welfare of the masses and interest of Nigeria as a whole. Awolowo did what is naturally done in a war situation as you cant be feeding and arming your opponents. If this interview actualy took place then I will assume Awolowo admitted his role and how incosequential it was.

My major question is why he refused to declare Oduduwa Republic as agreed with Ojukwu before his release.

EUROBOMBER:
Where is your source for this article? I had earlier asked for it but you never responded.

CSTR2:
Shut up.
Nigeria is not the first country to engage in a civil war.
If starvation was used by abraham lincoln in the american civil war, i don't think america would be one country today.
Go and read up on the american civil war and see why Nigeria will never develop.

raumdeuter:
Did you see German soldiers sending food to Russians during the siege at Stalingrad? Most of you are dumb.

Tell me where 2 warring sides would be sending food to themselves

CSTR2:
You are a nincompoop.
So the german -russia war was a civil war?
What university did you graduated from?
If starvation was used as a tactics in the american civil war, you think there will be a USA today?
Which civil war in history have you seen starvation been used as a valid tactic?
You block the borders to effectively starve to death the millions of people you claim to want to build a country with, and you expect them to just move on.
Grow some brain cells before quoting me.

A historian’s new look at how Union blockades brought about the defeat of a hungry Confederacy
In April 1861, Lincoln ordered a blockade of Southern ports used by the Confederacy for cotton and tobacco exporting as well as for the importation of food. The Army of the Confederacy grew thin while Union dinner tables groaned and Northern canning operations kept Grant’s army strong. In Starving the South, Andrew Smith takes a gastronomical look at the war’s outcome and legacy. While the war split the country in a way that still affects race and politics today, it also affected the way we eat: It transformed local markets into nationalized food suppliers, forced the development of a Northern canning industry, established Thanksgiving as a national holiday and forged the first true national cuisine from the recipes of emancipated slaves who migrated north. On the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Fort Sumter, Andrew Smith is the first to ask “Did hunger defeat the Confederacy?”