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abba190:
shut the fk up, if your draws are sure u wouldnt be needing our hard earned 3ks. you would have been rich by now if ur draws are real, i feel for guys that take u serious wallahi

oyewale0001:
Abba, continue trolling oooo. I don't have money to give you this time around.

Abba190

nurd:
I used to do that when I first started. But go to the best sellers list, you'll see books with very low bsr having like 100-160 pages. And that is around 15k words or so. So I started targeting between 8k to 12k to publish first.

This is what I do. I have a full table of content for each book. After I get to like 100 pages and there are still topics to cover, I put them aside and publish first. If the book starts ranking and is selling well, I go back and add what I can. This way, I can finish a book in two weeks or a month max. I've found this is easier for me than spending two months on a book.

Some books will flop. No way around it. (This is for us newbies). So I try to minimize my effort on such books.

Excellent tips, boss. I followed you in case you want to drop more tips, thanks alot. I'm going to try to write on phone and edit, format, and publish with my phone. The reason it's hard and frustrating for me is due to my low capacity of my phone — it's just 1 GB ram so it lags a lot.

By the way I assume that when you add more contents, you edit the cover with 'edited version ' or there's no need for that?

nurd:
Learn how to edit and write on your phone. It'll be hard but when you don't have a choice, you have to use the available resources.

As for ads, you can set as little as $5 as daily budget but you can't exhaust it. I suggest starting with 0.10 as your bid. Increase if you're not getting impressions. I started with 0.15 and I still get sales.

I learn kdp is a numbers game, except of course, if you have big bucks for a launch plan and continous advert. So try and publish more by all means, but make it quality. I gun for 50+ pages. I've found the travel niche to be the easiest to make sales. But it is very difficult to write a travel guide well, especially since you won't be visiting most of the locations.

Wow, thanks alot boss. I'm really surprised you said "50+ pages" when I actually stress myself trying to hit 20k to 30k words.

nurd:
I do look into publisher rocket but I don't trust their data. So, I do all my research on Amazon.

I publish high content books.

I also run ads and have spent $31 this month.

This is impressive. I have been doing this but lack of power supply has frustrated me. I only have three books and sold just 2 paperback sales. So, I can even start running ads with as low as $10? Do you mind telling us the niches? It's okay if you don't want to, I understand.

nurd:
Also a Newbie. Started last year.

Wow! Do you use any software like publisher rocket and what kpnd of books do you publish?

Seun:
I never felt the need to use alt accounts to stir discussions, so I never did. This is a false speculation.

Oh boy, he actually replied . Thanks for making that clear, sir.

1Sharon:
It was never a writing system. Just a random pictogram

But still, it could be developed! Let's stop all these fvcking excuses! If you're passionate about learning languages and writing systems, you would understand what I'm saying!


Good job, OP. Keep spitting facts.

kushercain:
Please where in Abuja did this happen and how old will you say the daughter is?

My man is trying to be on the safe side
Anyway, God protect us from evil and demonic cheaters!

naija4life247:
Una go cry tire. Life is survival of the fittest

From the comments, it's obvious the man is an evil man but like someone said, bla c k monkeys love their oppressors. Yessir, let him kill more of the bla c k monkeys that support him! Kill them all "egbon" 💪🏿 !

EbinPawaGovt:
This is a difficult question that Igbo historians should seek to explain. I wonder the function of the many History departments in the universities. Nevertheless, it is obvious that the Ibo society was designed to be small and independent with affiliation to one or more hamlets in the locality. It could also be that being forest dwellers gave the hamlets the natural defenses they needed against widespread assaults. The loose confederacy of the Ibo clans obviously made things easy for the colonialists. We also need to factor in the fact that unlike the Incas, the Ibos never built wide roads and had no fast means of communication. Being jungle dwellers, poor means of communication and little-inter clan relationships no doubt meant that the Ibos were never able to fight as a unit. That is why the Aro has to fight the British without help from other Igbo clans. No doubt, the Ibo were neither like the Incas nor even like the Greeks that unite during wars despite operating city states. Nevertheless, it is my belief that if large Ibo clans like the the Aboh, Ukwa and Opobos who first encountered the Europeans around the Niger and Atlantic had more contact with the interior, things may have turned out differently for the Igbo country. But the fact remained that it was a self-sustaining, self-sufficient country that existed mainly at a subsistence level. Nevertheless, what I believe is that the Ibos had the technological expertise to build enough guns to withstand the British but were not organized enough to do it due to extenuating circumstanced. Perhaps the Sahara is to black Africa what the settlement pattern and tropical forest is to Ibo country. Why the Ibo country never united as one? We may never know for sure.

From what I read, it was the Aro "confederacy" that fought with the British — y'know, Aro with their other Igbo allies.

Another thing we must understand is that just like other parts of the world, the Igbos had crazy beliefs which further restricted them from quickly making necessary changes like allying with majority of Igbo state cities after seeing that they could lose their sovereignty to the British.

Broveens42:
You can never understand that tribe if you are still stuck with the templates of agendists.

But it's very easy to understand with signs and events

I'm only trying to understand things while standing in a neutral ground. I'm Igbo too.

Broveens42:
When you sell a lie like you did in your last line, it is easier to see through.
Let me enlightene you a bit.

The igbos see god in humans and are not very quick to go on the offensive, (this include forming groups to kill or hunt enemies).

They are wired to be on the defensive because they see beauty (Mma) in every life(Ndu).

Of course, there are consequences for staying true to the concept of "mmadu"
But astrology has a way of aligning and realigning core elements of civilization and superiority.

I'm too broke to buy a lie, let alone sell one to myself. I'm just curious about the Igbo people and the ancient pictures of the Igbo group posted on Nairaland by some tribalists led me to that book.

abba190:
hope u joined our whatsapp group

What WhatsApp group? I didn't know y'all had a WhatsApp group plus this thread makes me laugh .

Broveens42:
Lol. Your second paragraph proves igbos were very civilized.
Civilization can never translate to handpicking or forming alliances with persons based on tribe for political offices and not competence.
Even when they know they are being subjugated, it doesn't affect their sense of judgement.

I wish there is a voice note option on Nairaland, it would have made it easier for me to properly "articulate" my thoughts on this.

While I do understand that all of the empires formed throughout history were made possible by the bronze, iron, gun, and of course blood; however why didn't the Igbos form an alliance with one another?

I read a book written about ancient Igbos by a European but it was clear that he wouldn't never truly paint the true pictures since he was a foreigner with a totally different belief. He even said there were Igbo groups who practiced cannibalism...

EbinPawaGovt:
Mobile refinery and retrofitted planes yes. Mobile transmitter and Javelin bombs no. The former could be linked to the British and the latter, the Germans. If the Ibos had enough guns, if they were well armed via indegenous technology, the British wouldn't have the motivation to fight them as they had no motivation to fight Japan. In fact, the Igbo country was a dense tropical forest where everything would have worked against the invaders. The British had only one confidence - advanced weaponry.

And remember the Japanese already had a common political ideology by the late 1600s when they decided to go on self isolation due to fear of Western influence. This self isolation lasted for over 250 years until the United States stopped it in the 1800s.

The Japanese couldn't say 'No' because this could be losing their sovereignty, although they felt humiliated, they still agreed to end the centuries old policy.

EbinPawaGovt:
Mobile refinery and retrofitted planes yes. Mobile transmitter and Javelin bombs no. The former could be linked to the British and the latter, the Germans. If the Ibos had enough guns, if they were well armed via indegenous technology, the British wouldn't have the motivation to fight them as they had no motivation to fight Japan. In fact, the Igbo country was a dense tropical forest where everything would have worked against the invaders. The British had only one confidence - advanced weaponry.

You sound quite knowledgeable, I almost assumed you wouldn't back up your statements due to your moniker — sorry about that.

Anyway, I'm honestly curious to know why the Igbos never formed one single identity strong enough to become politically and ideologically strong.

Because till date, different Igbo groups can tell you which place in Igboland they originated from and the Igbo group they're closely related to. These Igbo groups were closer to each other but never found a strong political alliance.

kettykin:
Igbos that pioneeered mobile refinery,mobile transmitter, javelin bombs , retrofitted planes, etc

Igbos fought the British twice , during the Anglo-Aro war which resulted in many casualties among the British and also during Ekumeku war , were the employed guerrilla tactics and agile attacks against the British.

If Japan was a geopolitical zone in Nigeria, they would have been attacked by the british and other Nigerians

I actually thought the OP wouldn't take his time to write down his pointsbut he actually did and made some sense in his own way because most of the events he mentioned were historical facts.

However, he forgot to mention that Japan birthed a single identity before their first 'fierce' European encounter. The Igbos were mostly republican and never united under one flag, till date, I just don't understand the reason.

I hope to find out exactly why the Igbos refused to form a single identity strong enough to build political power, there are a lot of things we don't know about our past.

abba190:
the guy wan send me village without preparation, i don comot hands from his games oo

Abba Dan Uwa! I'm going through a hard time but kana sani dariya.

Bgad:
I knew Fulham cud score first or even win or draw the match.. but, it's much safer not to trust a small team to win or draw a mat h against a much bigger team... Based on experience.. this why I chose to wait for Tot to score first b4 stake on Fulham to score.. cos it's certain they were gonna retaliate..

I just noticed that Fulham are leading by 3 goals! 😳😳

I don't fvcking care about someone stereotyping me because I've got beautiful brown eyes and chocolate/lightskinned skin like "Igbos" while ignoring the fact that Mr. Ibu and millions of darkskinned folks are Igbos too.

I don't care as long as you're not a threat to me, my loved ones, or my people. I'm prohuman and will always remind myself to judge people based on the content of their character rather than their ethnicity, skin color, or any other stereotypes.

What a lot of people fail to understand is, racism, tribalism, and many other 'isms' will always exist because humans are sentient. People will always prefer their kind or at least people that they can relate to.

The most foolish thing is allowing yourself to be controlled by those assumptions and sentiments. Even my Igbo cousin is quick to talk about how he wants nothing to do with Yorubas and warns me that my "humanity first" policy will put me in trouble but I'm undisturbed.

An asshole will be treated like one, I don't care about his religion, ethnicity, or skin color regardless of my beliefs and sentiments. For example, I don't understand Islam but I still hang out with Moslems — I have the ability to go from "an eye for an eye" to "forgive and forget."

SuperOnyi:



Today was also hellish because like yesterday, I trekked a on distance and fetched water which this cousin of mine uses without much care.

Anyway, when I woke up in the morning (5 am), my throat was so dried up that I had drink water and decided I would b drinking water at intervals — I drank water about 3 or 4 times before it was time to break the fasting. I also went on job hunting...

Right now, my chest is hurting and ulcer is trying to penetrate; it's probably because I haven't ate any nutritious food for a long time.

Day 5 was successful, I drank water thrice. Day 6 is ongoing...

Hassanmaye:
No look sir, the thing is very painful with the way people are dying in this country all these guys care is to loot and steal our resources for themselves and their children? Please how many people 500m will pay their school fees? Since that is how the country is, we will wait for our time too. I'm weak.

Yeah I get it but it's better we divide the country and get our people out of this mess than make things worst while the white supremacists laugh at us. Imagine what would happen if this continues, Africa will never be great and one day, our descendants might be enslaved since we are literally powerless. Why do we have to keep shouting "One Nigeria" when we don't have what it takes to tackle our problems as one people? Do you think these politicians believe in Nigeria? Can you loot your father's wealth recklessly like these demons?

iLegendd:
God will see you through and you'll smile at last. It's a guarantee as long as you don't give up.

Thanks a lot, boss. This means a lot to me.

I'm available. Let me do the work and get paid.

Nairalanders, I'm literally starving right now; I don't even know how I'm going to break my fasting today. Please I'm available for any menial jobs.

Hassanmaye:
You are a bad guy. Our Time Will come we go loot this country I swear

I'm proudly unpatriotic and for those of you hating people who want nothing to do with Nigeria, I hope y'all can see comments like the one I quoted? This is the mindset of an average Nigerian.

onuman:
Boreholes for untreated water supply system when surface water supply system has long been in use in other countries for public water supply system. N196m for a borehole that can cost N1m to sink.
Stuck in Reverse. Looking for a referendum for Nigeria's groups to decide whether or not they want this stuck in reverse country called Nigeria.

Do you still need a referendum to understand that we are tired of this shit hole? I can't keep being patriotic while my future is being sold by some evil black people. And even when the country is divided, if this level of corruption continues, the revolution will be the bloodiest ever seen before.

How can I be starving while these guys are destroying my future and still asking me to be patriotic?! 😠

I hate Nigeria with every drop of blood in me, I can't even feed myself and I'm a hardworking 22 year old man yet look at what these demons are doing 😭. I'm heartbroken and I will give my life so I never come to this evil and useless country in my next life.

As for those supporting these evil politicians, your entire generation will suffer worst than we are suffering, they will all suffer till they die — as for the politicians, their punishment would be worst than any human has ever gone through.

Just take a look at my account balance😭: