jimyjames:
in achebe's words
"The origin of the national resentment of the Igbo is as old as Nigeria and quite as complicated.
"But it can be summarised thus: The Igbo " being receptive to change, individualistic and highly competitive, gave the Igbo man an unquestioned advantage over his compatriots in securing credentials for advancement in Nigerian colonial society.
"Unlike the Hausa/Fulani he was unhindered by a wary religion and unlike the Yoruba unhampered by traditional hierarchies. This kind of creature, not fearing God nor man, was custom-made to grasp the opportunities, such as they were, of the white man's dispensation. And the Igbo did so with both hands.
"Although the Yoruba had a huge historical and geographical head-start the Igbo wiped out their handicap in one fantastic burst of energy in the twenty years between 1930 and 1950.
"Had the Igbo been a minor ethnic group of a few hundred thousand, their menace might have been easily and quietly contained. But they ran in their millions! Like J.P Clark's fine image of 'ants filing out of the wood' the Igbo moved out of their forest home, scattered and virtually seized the floor.
"But this kind of success can carry a deadly penalty: the danger of hubris, overweening pride and thoughtlessness, which invites envy and hatred;"
Prof Chinua Achebe

MelesZenawi:



Allow Achebe to continue resting in peace.


Look for another thing to write.

MelesZenawi:



Allow Achebe to continue resting in peace.


Look for another thing to write.

jimyjames:

I'm pretty sure you have not read, There was a country by chinua Achebe

psucc:
Please who knows where I can buy Achebe's later books such as " There was a Country".?

I need to read his books as they convey some insights about Nigeria.

Bkayyy:

Are you reading it to criticize or to be enlightened?

psucc:
i don't get why you ask.

Even if I read to criticize,it is part of the academic world.

Bkayyy:


I can see that you are reading it to criticize.
Just know that there are mountains to criticize there so don't bother yourself. It was a personal history

I have the pdf though

Ezemust:
how can I get the PDF please

psucc:
Please who knows where I can buy Achebe's later books such as " There was a Country".?

I need to read his books as they convey some insights about Nigeria.

Ezemust:
how can I get the PDF please

efficiencie:
If the Igbos were indeed characterised by the features mentioned above they would have broken out of Nigeria by now! But their communities are still plagued by poverty, infrastructural deficit and dependence on statutory allocation...this piece is just another sycophantic expression that buoys the Ndigbos above reality.

efficiencie:
If the Igbos were indeed characterised by the features mentioned above they would have broken out of Nigeria by now! But their communities are still plagued by poverty, infrastructural deficit and dependence on statutory allocation...this piece is just another sycophantic expression that buoys the Ndigbos above reality.

marsman:
Boasting as Usual.

jimyjames:


boasting about the truth

jimyjames:


the national resentment of the igbo, is the reason the igbo are trapped in Nigeria and suffering all these you mentioned

efficiencie:


Yeah! Blaming others for your woes as usual...yet Ndigbos have staggering levels of wealth in other regions but they have very little investments in their own region.

Wole Soyinka has a Nobel prize in literature but has been of immense support to the yoruba people but Philip Emegwali is of the Igbo extraction and is the only African Nobel prize winner in Super-computing, an area of immense relevance to industrialisation but what has been his effect on the development of the Ndigbos? Nothing that I know of.

Ndigbos are the cause of their underdevelopment. Look at the yorubas that have developed Amotekun to defend their interests but the Ndigbo governors have done nothing till date (until Nnamdi Kanu intervenes).

Ndigbos are responsible for their failures...the East has immense human and natural resources but zero coordination, lack of group interests and a maniacal craze for individualistic materialism.

efficiencie:
If the Igbos were indeed characterised by the features mentioned above they would have broken out of Nigeria by now! But their communities are still plagued by poverty, infrastructural deficit and dependence on statutory allocation...this piece is just another sycophantic expression that buoys the Ndigbos above reality.

efficiencie:
If the Igbos were indeed characterised by the features mentioned above they would have broken out of Nigeria by now! But their communities are still plagued by poverty, infrastructural deficit and dependence on statutory allocation...this piece is just another sycophantic expression that buoys the Ndigbos above reality.

flokii:
@OP Are you aware that insurgency ravaged North East is far more developed than the South East?

Borno state alone has more infrastructure and amenities than all SE states combined. So what is all the igbos this igbo that noise y'all keep disturbing us with?

Charity begins at home please, y'all are just bunch of liars with no substance whatsoever.

flokii:
@OP Are you aware that insurgency ravaged North East is far more developed than the South East?

Borno state alone has more infrastructure and amenities than all SE states combined. So what is all the igbos this igbo that noise y'all keep disturbing us with?

Charity begins at home please, y'all are just bunch of liars with no substance whatsoever.

marsman:

Empty boasting, Unfounded allegations. Same Igbos are complaining of marginalization because they cannot have there way, the thing Igbos are the ones that resent the other tribes, because they are not letting them take control, like they greedily want to so badly, since time immemorial