1) weāk g0vernance, 2) limited administrative capacity, 3) chr0nic humanitarian crìses, 4) persistent social tenşions, and 5) often, vi0lence or the legacy of armèd c0nflict; 6) high rate of j0blessness, especially among the youth; 7) inability to solve the problem…
According to Elizabeth Isichei, “no Nigerian people resisted coĺonialism more tenaciously than the Igbo. The great Emirates of the north, once conquered, supported the Britìsh, with the minor exception of the Satiru rising.” “The conquest of Igboland took over twenty…
There are at least 64 “Native American tribes in the United States that no longer exist as tribes today.” “A tribe can have living descendants and still be extinct as a political entity.” One of the ways a tribe can…
Someone wants to be rich and influential; rather, by improving on his skill and becoming industrious, he visits a godfather who tells him the political party to join and the position to contest for. He agrees with him on what…
Have you ever seen a couple fight dirty in court where each is after sending the other to jail or to be hănged? If one is found guilty or loses at the end, do you think anything could be done…
A human being once had a dream of making a bicycle. Today we do not only have a bicycle but exortic cars. Someone once had the dream of a flying car; today we have an aeroplane. Someone once dreamed of…
Those claiming that they are not Igbo, why do you not begin by challenging hundreds of Igbo history books and thousands of articles in various academic journals that grouped you under the Igbo people? For instance, Elizabeth Isichei, writing about…
(First published on 06.02.2022) In Port-Harcourt, I met a young lady who visited the family that was hosting me at the time. I started speaking in the Igbo language to her. “I don’t speak Igbo,” she said. “What is your…
How many books on the Nìgerian-Bīafran wăr have you read as a forner Easterner or as a Nīgerian? What facts do you have about that event? Do you know the main cause of the wăr? Do you know the events…
October, the 10th month in today’s Gregorian calendar, was originally the 8th month in the old Roman calendar (pre-46 B.C.). In that Roman calendar, March used to be the 1st month of the year. The word October comes from the…
