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When almost all other parts of Nìgeria had submitted to the Brìtish c0lonial g0vernment, Ndigbo continued to resist and fight with everything at their disposal.
The Brìtish g0vernment believed that Ndigbo would submit in a matter of days or weeks owing to a lack of arms. To their utmost dismay, after 2 decades of constant mìlitary onslaught, Ndigbo continued to fight despite casualties, disāsters, and a shortage of ammünition.
As the Britìsh onslaught and Igbo resistance were going on, a Britìsh soldier who visited London in 1909 told a London audience that Igboland “is really quite a small portion of Nigeria… but it has been the most troublesome section of any.”
Imagine the arrogance of the Brìtish c0lonialists! Their arr0gance can be compared to that of a rapist calling a girl troublesome for resisting räpe or a thìef designating a man as stübborn for stopping him from breaking into his house.
Who will ever believe that this is the origin of the Britìsh hätred against Ndigbo that has endured till date? Who will believe that this is why Brìtain masterminded the kilĺing of over 2 million Biafran children?
Because Ndigbo refused to bow before the British lordship, they were made the sacrificial lamb of the British colonial project in Nigeria.
If you are Igbo, do not häte yourself or yourselves for being häted because you are not häted because you are evil, but because you cherish your freedom and dignity, which were not given to you by any human being and cannot be taken away by any human being.
What other Nigérians who are happy that Ndigbo are häted have failed to understand is that Ndigbo are not häted to punish Ndigbo but to hold the entire country down so that the neo-c0lonial powers can continue milking it without difficulties.
This is the reason Britaìn cannot support any Igbo freedom movement or freedom agitator. This is why they pretend not to be aware that someone carrying their own passport was kidnäpped and taken into detention since 4 years now.
One day, we shall be free. This I know!
Ref. 1. Discussion Following E.A. Steel, ‘Exploration in Southern Nigeria’ , Journal of the Royal United Services Institution (April 1910), p. 446.
