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eggheaders: for a man to remove the name of one his best friend from the foreword of his already published work.speaks volume about the kind of person this man was.he died a bitter man.go and actualize your dream nation of kidnappers and fraudsters in the great beyond.

"If you don't like my story, write your own" Chinua Achebe.

samabashiy46: Kudos to Dele for the well articulated article. Albeit, it comprises of blunt present truths that we all know, we all need to be reminded of them always. Whether we like Dele or not, the truth still remains the truth. I believe that whether we believe that any writer is feeling political marginalized or not or we are not comfortable with the way he/she run their business, for us to be truly objective and sincere to ourselves, we should comment on the subject matter he/she wrote for our comments accordingly. Whoever has not committed any sin should throw the 1st stone. We shouldn't allow sentiments or otherwise make us derail from the key issues irrespective of whoever is man enough to say them. Lets strive to move our country forward...

You are talking mainly about accepting the message, not judging the messenger. Same thing with "There was a country" by Chinua Achebe, a classic which should be thought in schools as a subject known as Achebeism.

dayokanu: The Politics of Achebe can be summarized in one word

"BITTERNESS"

Achebeism, a new subject being introduced in secondary schools by Eze Nyesom Nwike.

[quote author=Texas.Cowgirl]Until when?
Why must they hold control over the situation?
They need to be exterminated. Period!
Nigerians shoudnt live in fear of "when"
I say it's not good enough.[/quote]Untill they get the amnesty dollars which Buhari will use to rig the 2015 polls.

beylinko: i pray this wont comeback n bite us...these dude are not stupid.

Untill they get the amnesty dollars which Buhari will use to rig the 2015 polls.

Crime pays afterall.

And the coup itself, he said;

"Despite my fictional writings I never expected or wanted the form of violent intervention that became the military coup of January 15 1966. I had hoped that the politicians would sort things out for our new nation. Any confidence we had that things could be put righ was smashed as we watched elements from the military take control. The coup was led by a group of junior officers, most of the Igbo, and it would be known widely as the Nzeogwu coup after Major Chukwuma Nzeogwu, the ring leader, who was from the northern city of Kaduna. That night of January 15, 1966, is something Nigeria has never really recovered from."

kabba7: Is Jonathan worth voting for

He is the best of the worst on the rack.

Religion of peace.

Prof. Chinua Achebe

On a radical note, will it not be better to send allocations to these people, allow them to rule Borno for 4 years and then we compare which government is better?

Just after the coup of January 15, 1966, this was the thinking of Achebe;

"Nigeria was not ready or willing to face her problems. If her leaders had approached their duty with humility, they all might have realized long before the coup that the country was in deep trouble. Nigeria was rocked by one crisis after another in the years that followed independence. First the Nigerian census crisis of 1963-64 shook the nation, then the federal election crisis of 1964, which was followed by the Western Nigeria election crisis of 1965-which threatened to split the country at its seams. At that point most of us, the writers at least knew that something was very wrong with Nigeria. A fix was long overdue" (by the political class)

One Nigeria!

The reason I am starting from the early days is because of this proverb left to us by Chinua Achebe;

"An Igbo proverb tells us that a man who does not know where the rain began to beat him cannot say where he dried his body"

There were notable attempts by well meaning Nigerians to reverse the trend early enough. Writers, and even artists used all in their disposal to right the wrongs which started to threaten the new country, Nigeria. Achebe had this to say about some of these great men and the way they tried to bring the problem to the Nigerian audience who may be oblivious of political happenings through their plays;


"Nigerian artists responded to these events in a variety of ways. The irrepressible Wole Soyinka put on stage a devastating satire, Before the blackout, Which played to packed audiences night after night in Ibadan. The popular traveling theater of Hubert Ogunde and his many wives began to stage a play clearly directed against the crooked premier of Western Nigeria. The theater group was declared an unlawful society and banned in Western Nigeria. Things were coming to a head in that region. Violence erupted after an unbelievable election swindle, as a result of anger and frustration of Western Nigerians. It was in these circumstances that Wole Soyinka was charged with holding up the Ibadan radio station and removing the premier's taped speech!"

He continued thus about the way corruption mingled with ethnicism.

"The social malaise in Nigeria society was political corruption. The structure of the country was such that there was an inbuilt power struggle among the ethnic groups, and of course those who were in power wanted to stay in power. The easiest and simplest way to retain it, even in a limited area was to appeal to tribal sentiments, so they were egregiously exploited in the 1950s and 1960s." Chinua Achebe (2012)

The problems of Nigeria started early, very soon after independence. Achebe has this to say about the state of corruption and the start of our problems as a country;

"Within six years of this tragic colonial manipulation Nigeria was a cesspool of corruption and misrule. Public servants helped themselves freely to the nation's wealth. Elections werw blatantly rigged. The subsequent national census was outrageously stage-managed; judges and magistrates were manipulated by the politicians in power. The politicians themselves were pawns of foreign business interests"

That Chinua Achebe was one of the most illustrious sons to have come from Africa is not in doubt anymore.
That he lit up the literary spheres of the African continent and introduced African literature to the world is a no longer news.
That he stood tall as an incorruptible Nigerian at a period when everybody around him was losing their integrity is commendable.
That he stood up to be counted in the political formative years of Nigeria is a very bold move, joining not NPP but PRP.
That he authored so many brilliant books which were bestsellers is an eloquent testimony that he has an astute mind full of glowing ideas.
That he rejected national honors to protest against corruption and bad government is unprecidented in Nigerian political history.
That he abhored conflicts and any type of violence is what stood him out as a man of peace who will love to use his pen to make political changes, not with a gun.

I will like to use this thread to examine some of the ideology as espoused by the late literary icon, formost educator and social justice crusader, Prof. Chinualumogu Albert Acbebe.


(Please, this thread is not meant to draw ethnic and tribal comparisons but to look at the whole picture, this thread is an invitation to intelligent discourse only) Moderators, please be on the alert in case of those of us who loves to disrupt peaceful discourse.

tyadams: Your opinion is the worst i have ever read this year, have you ever thought of how motorist misbehave on road at times? All because they fill they can do whatever they like as nobody is there to checkmate them.
All you can say is to wish Soldiers waterloo with the Boko haram guys, you blinking shit! Honestly i wish i can jam ur silly type on a checkpoint, and u just do ur village thing to any soldier who laid down his all to secure you. Then you will prefer a truck to hit you than the treatment you will be given.
PS: there is no, i mean NO punishment a soldier issue a civillian that he has not gone through, even myself. And i did not die.

See them! You are a coward for thinking of punishing a civilian. Idiott.

dayokanu: I am not surprised you think that way given the fact that your IQ is in the negative integer

Was PDP not ruling in most SWest states just a few years ago?

You should have the word Mumu tattooed to your forehead

Dayomumu!

Sometimes they ask civilians to lie inside a dirty water pool by the roadside for 1hr.

Orji Uzor Kalu is a fearless Igbo man, but was corrupt as a governor. If only he was making this type of noise as a governor, he would have been a big HERO now.

Nice write up OP, but there will be a bloody problem that will erupt when you try this, the same leaders will call it a tribal attack and mobilize same youths to fight for them while they share money. Moslems will see it as an affront by christians while the Igbos will see it as an attack by the yorubas. In the end nothing will be done and suffering will worsen. They only need to bribe the leaders of the organized revolt and everything will return back to status quo ante.

Gamji007: Who is this pig?

Napoleon from animal kingdom

Alajiki: I laugh when I hear this kind of comment. It shows a very low IQ. What about the Muslims? Bring out a verse of Quran which supports destruction of innocent souls in exchange for "72 virgins". Unknown to you people, the more your verbal and media attacks, the more those of us who are sincere Muslims become stronger. SMH for u.

The more you bomb innocent civilians you mean?

Pukkah: What/Who is stopping them or any other perso from being arrested? Who is supposed to arrest them?

Should all these tell you something?

Those of you who make careless or inciting statements online should be careful.

And when you arrest them what happens next? Northern elites will cry blue murder and the crowds will go haywire and murder thousands of people. Jonathan is no fool, he is watching while the north slowly destroy itself.

gbadexy: But some mumus said the bomb attack was staged by the emir just as he staged the first attack also and endanger the lives of his children and himself just to pretend he isn't the sponsor of the boko haram.
You go fear hare brained reasoning na!

The emir himself may have supervised the bomb making and paid the suicide bomber from the safe in the palace.

MuhMubRaj: dude your "daftness'' gives me headache

Take two tablets of panadol extra

Achebe the great, just like Alexander the great!

gbadexy: Are you people for real?
So many wackos on this forum o!
So the emir staged the first attack and risked his life and that of his children just to give christians and easterners the impression he wasn't their sponsor and they later decided to go through the charade of throwing explosive and lynching one of the terrorists to make the same point? Wonderful.
And who choreographed or directed the plot, who mobilised and directed the plot you air headed conspiracy theorist came up with, since you claim it was staged, each member of the mob and terrorist would have been given their script to act!

Yes the mob could be given a plot to act. It only takes the strongest members of the neighborhood to give instructions for them to beat one to death first and then 'decide' to save one for the JTF to interrogate. That one will go into detention and sing like a bird on how they were paid to kill the emir. This is a no brainer, a primary 3 pupil can plan and execute this plot.

They caught the two of them, killed one and handed one over to the JTF. By next week the story will change, this living suspect will openly 'confess' that the PDP and Jonathan paid them to kill the emir.

Stage managed attacks, these guys should be scripting movies for Nollywood.