I am Igbo and I was born and raised in the south east. I just left the south-east a few years ago to study in the west. I got admission at the age of 17, so I have 17 years experience with Igboland and it's people. I can never remember when I had any conversation with my father or any elderly person bordering around the yorubas or any tribe in Nigeria. When we discussed the civil war, I and my dad, his stance was that it was an Igbo man that betrayed the course and ultimately caused our loss. He never told me anything about the yorubas or try to instill a kind of sensitivity in me for anyone.

I was taught everyday that hardwork pays. My father will always tell me, the world is a big place and opportunities abound. One thing I learnt from my parents is that I should know my worth, be respectful when it's needed and never cower for anyone or anything.

When I left the east for tertiary education, I met a very different society. There was this should I say scorn that follows when people learn you're Igbo. They're fast to tell you, your people love money. They'll make fun of your accent, make fun of your place, like "this one is from Aba na", this one na igbotic boy, this one na Onitsha boy". It wasn't nice. It kind of made me timid for a while until I topped my class and they all started to respect me.

I can recall I first came to nairaland around 2013. I was so disappionted at the level of hate between the Igbos and the Yorubas. The kind of degrading things people said to a whole tribe and the responses.. it wasn't nice at all. And I won't lie, it was influencing.. you'll see yourself liking a comment that strikes back to an insult on your tribe and sometimes you'll even be the one to reply.

On the Biafra issue. From my side, I learnt about the war during a brief history class I took in SS1 before fully switching to science in SS2. The teacher was trying to pull sentiments to the Igbo side but majority of my classmates were convinced that the war was ill-timed. Though you can't write off what led to the war, the relentless massacre of Igbos in the North anytime there was any little issue but I left it there in that class.

When I spoke to my father about Biafra during the heat of the Nnamdi Kanu debacle, He told me the Biafra issue was bound to resurface because Nigerians have not kept up their end of the bargain, and things were generally bad with the country. I analysed the whole issue on my own and my main stance is that war will not solve the problem and Nnamdi Kanu was calling for war, hence, my writing this article then.
https://www.nairaland.com/4053580/when-did-allow-hate-take

I have heard people say that Igbos are beclouded with hate. Our parents teach us to hate and the rest of it.. IT IS NOT TRUE!. 80% of childhood friends are Igbos, no one has told me his father told him to hate anybody. Maybe the kids raised outside Igbo land are told so, probably because the ethnic tension is there already but in Igboland, our parents don't have time for hate.

The hatred all over the place now is as a result of the internet. People write provoking things and people respond in a provoking way. The funny thing is that we the youths are championing hate, blowing the embers.. letting politicians and charlatans plant hate.. Our parent's time is almost over, it's bad in this our time but I bet, it'll be worse in the time of our children. The generations coming after us will suffer it and it will be the fault of this generation.

We may have different political ideologies but hatred is universal. If we don't kill hate, hate will kill us.

Don't accuse the Igbos of being hateful, I am Igbo, I was never hateful.. I am not hateful (at least I'm trying not to be) and I am against hate speech. The seed we are planting today, thinking "YES, I have dealt with this Ipob, or this Afonja, or this Aboki" with our little comments on social media will grow to consume us one day, if not us.. our children.

Let us all agree to disagree

Maka Echi - Because of tomorrow
From a Concerned Citizen

shakmati:
Wise words. Spoken like an elder.

MeanChris:
Let us put the issue to an end.
For the record

mrvitalis:
Saying igbos are tribalistic is on one the funniest thing I hear every time

Go to any city in Nigeria after the indigenous people igbos are next and when we live.. We take the place like our own... Build empires without minding

How many hausas has duplex in Ibadan... I sure know lots of igbos who have heavy investments in Ibadan, how many Yorubas have duplex in jos or kano, or kaduna or even jalingo... Igbos go here and develop this this places to the way they would if they are at home

I know what my family went true to buy lands in bayelsa, once you are igbo the price is double, some won't even sale for you

Now go to aba, enugu, owerri, how many Yoruba and Hausas own property in this places... Yet they are the first to scream one nigeria


Any igbo has never asked for an advantage... All we need is equal front let merit lead

mrvitalis:
Saying igbos are tribalistic is on one the funniest thing I hear every time

Go to any city in Nigeria after the indigenous people igbos are next and when we live.. We take the place like our own... Build empires without minding

How many hausas has duplex in Ibadan... I sure know lots of igbos who have heavy investments in Ibadan, how many Yorubas have duplex in jos or kano, or kaduna or even jalingo... Igbos go here and develop this this places to the way they would if they are at home

I know what my family went true to buy lands in bayelsa, once you are igbo the price is double, some won't even sale for you

Now go to aba, enugu, owerri, how many Yoruba and Hausas own property in this places... Yet they are the first to scream one nigeria


Any igbo has never asked for an advantage... All we need is equal front let merit lead

Modphase:



Here we go again with this Igbo stupidity. I know a Dangote that owns a cemetery factory n he’s also building a refinery that your forefathers never owned in Yoruba land and your unborn generations in this life and in the afterlife will never be allowed to own in Yoruba land. That mush I know, now you can go to hell.

MeanChris:
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Modphase:
As fair as this write up is I must admit it is flawed. If any1 tease Igbos about the love of money. They tease the Ijebus more for greediness n the Abokis for backwardness. An Igbo comedian was busy cracking jokes on n about Yoruba, I laughed this off growing up but I did take offend to it at that time because it was a subtly way Igbos use in insulting Yoruba.

This is exactly what one Nwaipkwe idiot does daily on NL until I started quoting him to make foolish n hopeless joke about his tribe n their actors n actresses. You came to the West n you can clearly see how fairly the Yorubas deal with different ethnicities.

It is crazy some Igbos want us to hate Hausa simply because they are not as educated. No Igbo I repeat can form superstar to any Yoruba. Coming top in class na shii to me, I am doing a lot beta than those that came top of my class in life today.

Igbos should know they are not superior to the most nauseating Aboki, you were just lucky civilization came to you before them. How fast n much you accepted n adopted it is your father’s problem. Nobody in Nigeria will give up their right for you to thumb your chest over. The earlier you learn this the better for all of us.

Turantula:
Showing hatred in a faceless forum like nairaland is good for everybody in this country because there is no love amongst us. The sooner we stop pretending the better for everyone. I hate Buhari and everything the he represents. I will probably hate anybody that loves him - na so the thing set.

orisa37:
Igbos are not trabalistic but are Trouble shooters everywhere.

MeanChris:
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mrvitalis:
Saying igbos are tribalistic is on one the funniest thing I hear every time

Go to any city in Nigeria after the indigenous people igbos are next and when we live.. We take the place like our own... Build empires without minding

How many hausas has duplex in Ibadan... I sure know lots of igbos who have heavy investments in Ibadan, how many Yorubas have duplex in jos or kano, or kaduna or even jalingo... Igbos go here and develop this this places to the way they would if they are at home

I know what my family went true to buy lands in bayelsa, once you are igbo the price is double, some won't even sale for you

Now go to aba, enugu, owerri, how many Yoruba and Hausas own property in this places... Yet they are the first to scream one nigeria


Any igbo has never asked for an advantage... All we need is equal front let merit lead

Modphase:
As fair as this write up is I must admit it is flawed. If any1 tease Igbos about the love of money. They tease the Ijebus more for greediness n the Abokis for backwardness. An Igbo comedian was busy cracking jokes on n about Yoruba, I laughed this off growing up but I did take offend to it at that time because it was a subtly way Igbos use in insulting Yoruba.

This is exactly what one Nwaipkwe idiot does daily on NL until I started quoting him to make foolish n hopeless joke about his tribe n their actors n actresses. You came to the West n you can clearly see how fairly the Yorubas deal with different ethnicities.

It is crazy some Igbos want us to hate Hausa simply because they are not as educated. No Igbo I repeat can form superstar to any Yoruba. Coming top in class na shii to me, I am doing a lot beta than those that came top of my class in life today.

Igbos should know they are not superior to the most nauseating Aboki, you were just lucky civilization came to you before them. How fast n much you accepted n adopted it is your father’s problem. Nobody in Nigeria will give up their right for you to thumb your chest over. The earlier you learn this the better for all of us.

resurgent4oodua:


I can still endure the Hausa Fulani with his religiously induced murderous rage because he's not boastful or rude to me in yorubaland.

For now, the only way we can punish the igbos for their hubris is to obstruct their March to Aso rock while conceptualizing further ways to cut down this hateful tribe.

Modphase:
As fair as this write up is I must admit it is flawed. If any1 tease Igbos about the love of money. They tease the Ijebus more for greediness n the Abokis for backwardness. An Igbo comedian was busy cracking jokes on n about Yoruba, I laughed this off growing up but I did take offend to it at that time because it was a subtly way Igbos use in insulting Yoruba.

This is exactly what one Nwaipkwe idiot does daily on NL until I started quoting him to make foolish n hopeless joke about his tribe n their actors n actresses. You came to the West n you can clearly see how fairly the Yorubas deal with different ethnicities.

It is crazy some Igbos want us to hate Hausa simply because they are not as educated. No Igbo I repeat can form superstar to any Yoruba. Coming top in class na shii to me, I am doing a lot beta than those that came top of my class in life today.

Igbos should know they are not superior to the most nauseating Aboki, you were just lucky civilization came to you before them. How fast n much you accepted n adopted it is your father’s problem. Nobody in Nigeria will give up their right for you to thumb your chest over. The earlier you learn this the better for all of us.

MeanChris:


So you can endure a murderer but not a boastful man?
Interesting

So you want to cut down Igbos??
Interesting

mrvitalis:
Saying igbos are tribalistic is on one the funniest thing I hear every time

Go to any city in Nigeria after the indigenous people igbos are next and when we live.. We take the place like our own... Build empires without minding

How many hausas has duplex in Ibadan... I sure know lots of igbos who have heavy investments in Ibadan, how many Yorubas have duplex in jos or kano, or kaduna or even jalingo... Igbos go here and develop this this places to the way they would if they are at home

I know what my family went true to buy lands in bayelsa, once you are igbo the price is double, some won't even sale for you

Now go to aba, enugu, owerri, how many Yoruba and Hausas own property in this places... Yet they are the first to scream one nigeria


Any igbo has never asked for an advantage... All we need is equal front let merit lead

resurgent4oodua:


I am interested in pushing igbos back into Alaigbo.

If the igbos can't wage a frontal war against us in our greatest city(lagos) then they are the greatest cowards this country has ever seen. I don't see what offence yorubas have. committed against igbos to warrant the hatred.

But for now, as far as peace can be maintained, igbos can continue their trading business in the SW unhindered. But igbos will never attain Presidential power in Nigeria as far as Hausas and Yorubas are still in Nigeria Nigeria. We would rather give power to the South South than allow igbos get there.

#istandwithbuharitill2023