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coolitempa:
His books are all over the net.....although he was significant in terms of his being a black man writing.....his book was not that interesting.......but as usual the flat.heads tried to claim him....even though he was not ibo...... ....but we know you people lie a lot....e.g....Michelle Obama was ibo....Ibos are Jews?..........ibos are the richest?.....ibos own lagos and South Africa.......eboes don't sell gala......eboes. Are not criminals....eboes won the civil war...... ...nobody takes you seriously and nobody should....too many lie....lie inside Tory.....

AdiscoPele:
I have just gone through the history of Liberia, and there is NO such name as J J Royle as ever being a President in the history of Liberia. The name of the third President of Liberia is DANIEL BASHIEL WARNER.
Please get your facts right because it will be very foolish of you to get facts wrong when you are trying to discredit an slowpoke like femi fans kayode.

chiobysyk:
An Igbo scholar, Dr. Samuel Okafor, has made one-time Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, look so small and uneducated by using facts and figures to demolish the claims he made in the controversial August 8 article, “The Bitter Truth About The Igbo”, which set off a storm that almost threatened Igbo-Yoruba relations.In the first part of an article entitled “The Lies of Femi Fani-Kayode”, Okafor, who has a First Class in History from the University of Nigeria Nsukka and then did a Ph.D in Nsukka on scholarship, dismissed Fani-Kayode as a “half-bakedintellectual.” He then proceeded, point by point, to address what he termed “themost reckless amongst the tangle of reckless comments spewed by Femi, a character who with each punch of his keypad stresses his severely unwell conditions of logorrhoea, delusions of enlightenment, history and sociology – amongst others.”Below are Okafor’s words:FEMI AND HIS SEVERELY IGNORANT LIES:•Femi Lies About the Yorubas Being Nigeria’s Earliest Graduates:From his myopic bubble Femi FaniKayode claims the Yoruba were the first to acquire Western education; the first ever known record of a literate Nigerian in the English Language is the narrative of an Ibo slave who regained his freedom and documented his life history as a slave from the time he was 11 years old in present day Ibo land till the time when he gained his freedom in the middle of the 18 th century. He later married an English woman and had 3 children. He died in 1795. Femi, a basic Google-research will do you good here; check out the name, Equanoh OLAODAH. Further Femi claims that the Yoruba were the first lawyers and doctors in Nigeria. This is again a big falsehood. The first Nigeria doctor was an Effik man Silas G. Dove who obtained a medical degree from France and returned to practise medicine in 1840 in Calabar. This fact can also be verified from historical medical records in Paris.I would also ask that you google the name BLYDEN – Edward Wilmot BLYDEN– an educated son of free Ibo slaves who by the mid-19th century had acquired sound theological education. He was born in Saint Thomas in 1832. He is one of the founding missionaries that established the Archbishop Vining church in Ikeja. Before the next time you succumb to your long-running battle with logorrhoea, Femi please do some research.What about the third president of a free Liberia – President J JRoyle – again, a man of Ibo descent. Please take some time to do some research so that we candiscuss constructively. It is wrong to peddle lies to your people. It is academic fraud to knowingly misrepresent facts just to score cheap points with people who do not have the discipline to do research and accept anything you pour out simply because they say you are well educated. To againquote the great Nobel Prize Winner in Economics Joseph Stiglitz; Femi fits intothe category of third rate students from first rate universities with an inflated sense of self-importance. Let’s go on!Who was the first Nigerian Professor of Mathematics – an Ibo man – Professor Chike Obi – the man who solved Fermat’s Last Theorem. He was followedby another Ibo man, Professor James Ezeilo, Professor of Differentail Calculus and the founder of the Ezeilo Constant. Please do some research on this great Ibo man. He later became the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka and one of the founders of the Nigerian Mathematical Centre. Who was Nigeria’s first Professor of Histroy – Professor Kenneth Dike who published the first account of trade in Nigeria in pre-colonial times. He was also the first African Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan. Who was the first Professor ofMicrobiology – Professor Eni Njoku; he was also the first African Vice Chancellorof the University of Lagos. Anatomy and Physiology – Professor Chike Edozien is an Asaba man and current Obi of Asaba. Who was the first Professor of Anatomy at the University College Ibadan? Who was the first Professor of Physics? Professor Okoye, who became a Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960. He was followed by the likes of Professor Alexander Anumalu who has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Physics three times for his research in Intermediate Quantum Physics. He was also a founding member of the Nigerian Mathematical Centre. Nuclear Physics and Chemistry – again another Ibo man – Professor Frank Ndili who gained a Ph.D in his early ’20s at Cambridge Univesity in Nuclear Physics and Chemistry in the early ’60s. This young Asaba man had made a First Class in Physics and Mathematics at the then University College Ibadan in the early’50s. First Professor of Statistics – Professor Adichie who’s research on Non-Parametric Statistics led to new areas in statistical research. What about the first Nigerian Professor of Medicine – Professor Kodilinye – he was appointed a Professor of Medicine at theUniversity of London in 1952. He later became the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka after the war. What about Astronomy – again another Ibo man was the first Professor of Astronomy – please, look up Professor Ntukoju – he was the first to earn a double Ph.D in Astronomy and Mathematics.Let’s go to the Social Sciences – Demography and statistical research into population studies – again another Ibo man – Professor Okonjo who set up the first Centre for Population Research in Ibadan in the early ’60s. A double Ph.D in Mathematics and Economics. Philosophy – Professor G D Okafor, who became a Professor of Philosophy at theAmherst College USA in 1953. Economics – Dr. Pius Okigbo who became a visiting scholar and Professor of Economics at the University of London in 1954. He is also the first Nigerian Ph.D in Economics. Theology and theological research – Professor Njoku who became the first Nigerian to earn a Ph.D in Theology from Queens University Belfast in Ireland. He was appointed a Professor of Theology at theUniversity College Zambia in 1952.I am still conducting research in areas such as Geography where it seems a Yoruba man, Professor Mabogunje, was the first Professor. I also am conducting research into who was the first Nigerian Professor of English, Theatre Arts, Languages, Business and Education, Law and Engineering, Computer Technology, etc. Nigerians need to be told the truth and not let the lies that Femi Fani-Kayode has been selling to some ignorant Yoruba who feel that to be the first to see the white man and interact with him means that you are way ahead of other groups. The Ibo as The great Achebe said had within a spanof 40 years bridged the gap and even surpassed the Yoruba in education by the ’60s. Many a Yoruba people perpetually indulge in self-deceit: that they were the first to go to school; to be exposed to Western education; that theyare academically ahead of other Nigeriancultures of peoples. Another ignorant lie.As far back as 1495 the Benin Empire maintained a diplomatic presence in Portugal. This strategic relationship did not just stop at a mere mission but extended to areas such as education. Scores of young Benin men were sent out to Portugal to study and lots of themcame back with advanced degrees in Medicine, Law and Portuguese Language, to name a few.Indeed, some went with their Yoruba and Ibo slaves who served the sons of the Benin nobility while they studied in Portugal. These are facts that can be verified by the logs kept by ship owners in Portugal from 1494 to 1830. It is kept at the Portuguese Museum of Geographic History in Lisbon.Why then would several Yoruba people peddle all these falsehoods to show thatthey are ahead educationally in Nigeria? The true facts from the Federal Office of Statistics on education tell otherwise, showing that 3 Ibo states for the past 12years have constantly had the largest number of graduates in the country, producing more graduates than Ondo, Osun, Ekiti and Oyo states. These eastern states are Imo, Anambra and Abia. Yet he calls Ibos traders. Indeed, the Igbos dominate because excellence dominates mediocrity – truth.Let me enlighten this falsehood’s mouthpiece even further: before the civil war Ibos controlled and dominated al

coolscott:
Igbos write lies with confidence as if it were true.

There is nothing about this writeup that separates it from the possibility of being some big lie.

Even the way in which the OP posted it here does not smirk of intelligence. It is very hard to read.

And it is actually a fact that the igbos were the last to be reached by the white man in Nigeria because there were in the hinterland.

As late as 1920, some igbo villages were 100% unspoiled and untouched by the presence of any white man.

It is highly unlikely they learned to read and write before the yorubas or my own people (at the south-south coast of Nigeria) who dealt with the white man in business and in war, having to read, write and sign treaties and agreements.

As late as the 1950s, my grandfather, a south-southerner and business man in Aba would drive his kids to his plantation on the outskirts (Ngwa land). My uncle told me they would have villages chasing their vehicle and chanting "oyibo! oyibo!"
He said they were naked and some had leaves for clothing.

These are not the ones who were advanced early at all. The only people they developed faster than are the northerners and only in attaining western education simply because the northerners were not receptive to it. On every other level, they seem to be the noisy and retarded tribe of Nigeria

Ugomba:
lies. he was from Imo State.

onenaira3:
Actually inaccurate. Equiano was from modern day delta north., I believe he's modern day aniocha so he's SS igbo

PenSniper:
This Dr. Samuel Okafor can lie.
A Pro. Frank Ndili attained a Phd in his early twenties yet remained virtually unknown ! Thats a crack. Phd in his early twenties at that era ? Hmmm.

The first set of people he quoted are said to be ibo slaves. But i thought the ibos boast that they were never taken into slavery ? So they can make such claim now that it suited their ego ? Hmmm

That president of Liberia he claimed to be ibo was NEVER an ibo, its another big lie.
Those shouting hurray at this post are the gullible ones that can easily be hoodwinked by crafty liers of ibo descent.

coolscott:
Igbos write lies with confidence as if it were true.

There is nothing about this writeup that separates it from the possibility of being some big lie.

Even the way in which the OP posted it here does not smirk of intelligence. It is very hard to read.

And it is actually a fact that the igbos were the last to be reached by the white man in Nigeria because there were in the hinterland.

As late as 1920, some igbo villages were 100% unspoiled and untouched by the presence of any white man.

It is highly unlikely they learned to read and write before the yorubas or my own people (at the south-south coast of Nigeria) who dealt with the white man in business and in war, having to read, write and sign treaties and agreements.

As late as the 1950s, my grandfather, a south-southerner and business man in Aba would drive his kids to his plantation on the outskirts (Ngwa land). My uncle told me they would have villages chasing their vehicle and chanting "oyibo! oyibo!"
He said they were naked and some had leaves for clothing.

These are not the ones who were advanced early at all. The only people they developed faster than are the northerners and only in attaining western education simply because the northerners were not receptive to it. On every other level, they seem to be the noisy and retarded tribe of Nigeria

AdiscoPele:
I have just gone through the history of Liberia, and there is NO such name as J J Royle as ever being a President in the history of Liberia. The name of the third President of Liberia is DANIEL BASHIEL WARNER.
Please get your facts right because it will be very foolish of you to get facts wrong when you are trying to discredit an slowpoke like femi fans kayode.

chiobysyk:
An Igbo scholar, Dr. Samuel Okafor, has made one-time Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, look so small and uneducated by using facts and figures to demolish the claims he made in the controversial August 8 article, “The Bitter Truth About The Igbo”, which set off a storm that almost threatened Igbo-Yoruba relations.In the first part of an article entitled “The Lies of Femi Fani-Kayode”, Okafor, who has a First Class in History from the University of Nigeria Nsukka and then did a Ph.D in Nsukka on scholarship, dismissed Fani-Kayode as a “half-bakedintellectual.” He then proceeded, point by point, to address what he termed “themost reckless amongst the tangle of reckless comments spewed by Femi, a character who with each punch of his keypad stresses his severely unwell conditions of logorrhoea, delusions of enlightenment, history and sociology – amongst others.”Below are Okafor’s words:FEMI AND HIS SEVERELY IGNORANT LIES:•Femi Lies About the Yorubas Being Nigeria’s Earliest Graduates:From his myopic bubble Femi FaniKayode claims the Yoruba were the first to acquire Western education; the first ever known record of a literate Nigerian in the English Language is the narrative of an Ibo slave who regained his freedom and documented his life history as a slave from the time he was 11 years old in present day Ibo land till the time when he gained his freedom in the middle of the 18 th century. He later married an English woman and had 3 children. He died in 1795. Femi, a basic Google-research will do you good here; check out the name, Equanoh OLAODAH. Further Femi claims that the Yoruba were the first lawyers and doctors in Nigeria. This is again a big falsehood. The first Nigeria doctor was an Effik man Silas G. Dove who obtained a medical degree from France and returned to practise medicine in 1840 in Calabar. This fact can also be verified from historical medical records in Paris.I would also ask that you google the name BLYDEN – Edward Wilmot BLYDEN– an educated son of free Ibo slaves who by the mid-19th century had acquired sound theological education. He was born in Saint Thomas in 1832. He is one of the founding missionaries that established the Archbishop Vining church in Ikeja. Before the next time you succumb to your long-running battle with logorrhoea, Femi please do some research.What about the third president of a free Liberia – President J JRoyle – again, a man of Ibo descent. Please take some time to do some research so that we candiscuss constructively. It is wrong to peddle lies to your people. It is academic fraud to knowingly misrepresent facts just to score cheap points with people who do not have the discipline to do research and accept anything you pour out simply because they say you are well educated. To againquote the great Nobel Prize Winner in Economics Joseph Stiglitz; Femi fits intothe category of third rate students from first rate universities with an inflated sense of self-importance. Let’s go on!Who was the first Nigerian Professor of Mathematics – an Ibo man – Professor Chike Obi – the man who solved Fermat’s Last Theorem. He was followedby another Ibo man, Professor James Ezeilo, Professor of Differentail Calculus and the founder of the Ezeilo Constant. Please do some research on this great Ibo man. He later became the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka and one of the founders of the Nigerian Mathematical Centre. Who was Nigeria’s first Professor of Histroy – Professor Kenneth Dike who published the first account of trade in Nigeria in pre-colonial times. He was also the first African Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan. Who was the first Professor ofMicrobiology – Professor Eni Njoku; he was also the first African Vice Chancellorof the University of Lagos. Anatomy and Physiology – Professor Chike Edozien is an Asaba man and current Obi of Asaba. Who was the first Professor of Anatomy at the University College Ibadan? Who was the first Professor of Physics? Professor Okoye, who became a Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960. He was followed by the likes of Professor Alexander Anumalu who has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Physics three times for his research in Intermediate Quantum Physics. He was also a founding member of the Nigerian Mathematical Centre. Nuclear Physics and Chemistry – again another Ibo man – Professor Frank Ndili who gained a Ph.D in his early ’20s at Cambridge Univesity in Nuclear Physics and Chemistry in the early ’60s. This young Asaba man had made a First Class in Physics and Mathematics at the then University College Ibadan in the early’50s. First Professor of Statistics – Professor Adichie who’s research on Non-Parametric Statistics led to new areas in statistical research. What about the first Nigerian Professor of Medicine – Professor Kodilinye – he was appointed a Professor of Medicine at theUniversity of London in 1952. He later became the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka after the war. What about Astronomy – again another Ibo man was the first Professor of Astronomy – please, look up Professor Ntukoju – he was the first to earn a double Ph.D in Astronomy and Mathematics.Let’s go to the Social Sciences – Demography and statistical research into population studies – again another Ibo man – Professor Okonjo who set up the first Centre for Population Research in Ibadan in the early ’60s. A double Ph.D in Mathematics and Economics. Philosophy – Professor G D Okafor, who became a Professor of Philosophy at theAmherst College USA in 1953. Economics – Dr. Pius Okigbo who became a visiting scholar and Professor of Economics at the University of London in 1954. He is also the first Nigerian Ph.D in Economics. Theology and theological research – Professor Njoku who became the first Nigerian to earn a Ph.D in Theology from Queens University Belfast in Ireland. He was appointed a Professor of Theology at theUniversity College Zambia in 1952.I am still conducting research in areas such as Geography where it seems a Yoruba man, Professor Mabogunje, was the first Professor. I also am conducting research into who was the first Nigerian Professor of English, Theatre Arts, Languages, Business and Education, Law and Engineering, Computer Technology, etc. Nigerians need to be told the truth and not let the lies that Femi Fani-Kayode has been selling to some ignorant Yoruba who feel that to be the first to see the white man and interact with him means that you are way ahead of other groups. The Ibo as The great Achebe said had within a spanof 40 years bridged the gap and even surpassed the Yoruba in education by the ’60s. Many a Yoruba people perpetually indulge in self-deceit: that they were the first to go to school; to be exposed to Western education; that theyare academically ahead of other Nigeriancultures of peoples. Another ignorant lie.As far back as 1495 the Benin Empire maintained a diplomatic presence in Portugal. This strategic relationship did not just stop at a mere mission but extended to areas such as education. Scores of young Benin men were sent out to Portugal to study and lots of themcame back with advanced degrees in Medicine, Law and Portuguese Language, to name a few.Indeed, some went with their Yoruba and Ibo slaves who served the sons of the Benin nobility while they studied in Portugal. These are facts that can be verified by the logs kept by ship owners in Portugal from 1494 to 1830. It is kept at the Portuguese Museum of Geographic History in Lisbon.Why then would several Yoruba people peddle all these falsehoods to show thatthey are ahead educationally in Nigeria? The true facts from the Federal Office of Statistics on education tell otherwise, showing that 3 Ibo states for the past 12years have constantly had the largest number of graduates in the country, producing more graduates than Ondo, Osun, Ekiti and Oyo states. These eastern states are Imo, Anambra and Abia. Yet he calls Ibos traders. Indeed, the Igbos dominate because excellence dominates mediocrity – truth.Let me enlighten this falsehood’s mouthpiece even further: before the civil war Ibos controlled and dominated al

coolitempa:
According to

PenSniper:
This Dr. Samuel Okafor can lie.
A Pro. Frank Ndili attained a Phd in his early twenties yet remained virtually unknown ! Thats a crack. Phd in his early twenties at that era ? Hmmm.

The first set of people he quoted are said to be ibo slaves. But i thought the ibos boast that they were never taken into slavery ? So they can make such claim now that it suited their ego ? Hmmm

That president of Liberia he claimed to be ibo was NEVER an ibo, its another big lie.
Those shouting hurray at this post are the gullible ones that can easily be hoodwinked by crafty liers of ibo descent.

ERODEDEAST:
Dr Samuel Placid is a TRIBAL BIGOT

His he looking for Fani's attention? who knows.


You can't just rewrite history

AdiscoPele:
I have just gone through the history of Liberia, and there is NO such name as J J Royle as ever being a President in the history of Liberia. The name of the third President of Liberia is DANIEL BASHIEL WARNER.
Please get your facts right because it will be very foolish of you to get facts wrong when you are trying to discredit an slowpoke like femi fans kayode.

coolitempa:
Mor0n....Google is your friend....given his narratives...it has been established that he was from the SS....continue to fool ur selves.....

coolscott:
Self-delusion seems to be some special tonic necessary for the well-being of the Igbo mind.

It distresses them to look into history and not see much great about them so out of that deeply felt unease, they invent stories.

They look into history for greatness and get really hurt that they do not find it.

They really hate this.

It is their outward reaction to these inner feelings caused by the lack of historical greatness that we see in several impulsive & easily verifiable lies being spurted out intermittently by them, all attempting to satisfy that need for historical greatness through fables.

coolscott:
Self-delusion seems to be some special tonic necessary for the well-being of the Igbo mind