Excerpt from a facebook post.

The fellow who made mockery of me last week for openly asking for a made in Aba shoe was an Igbo probably from Anambra State.
I should have known better and expected such incivility from him. You see, the problem of the Igbo today is not only caused by illiteracy and superstition, the remote causes of most of these problems are audible silence from the few intellectuals. I do not blame the young man who mocked me for asking for a made in Aba shoe, I blame the Igbo intellectuals who had kept quiet and the self induced intellectuals who are only good at pushing every blame that should come to the Igbo away.
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I must say it and emphatically, that the addition of Jewish delusion, radical Pentecostalism, unquestioning Catholicism, and the value on anything tagged import which extends to those called importers, have destroyed the psyche of the Igbo. Today, many of the people you see as Igbo have no characteristics of IGBO. I have in my book, written about the characteristics of the Igbo. These characteristics were four in numbers. Although, in that book, I didn't go further, but the fact is that if we are to involve technicalities, we may wound up not having enough people to call Igbo.
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That young man would have thought 'bigger' of me if I had come asking for a made in Israel or Italian shoe. The present Igbo somehow have manufactured a theory I described as 'the farer the better.' An average Igbo man in the east believed that things manufactured in Lagos or Cotonou is always better than anything manufactured in Nnewi or Aba and are likely to go crazy over anything manufactured in US, China or Germany. One would be asking why I linked this up with Jewish delusion. And I will tell us.
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Among the Igbo wanting to be Jews, what lay behind those caricature Jewish hat and costume, is a regret of not being a proper Jew. This delusion is not just common among the Igbo who have become practicing Judaists, but among 85% of Igbo Christians. It was Nnayi Chinua Achebe who noted that:
“Once you allowed yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface, it’s far removed from your situation. This is what I tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do – it can make us identify with situations and people far away. If it does that, it’s a miracle.” The truth is that every Igbo Christian would like to be Jewish. Number one, they believed that Jews are chosen people. But who the hell is not always chosen by their own god? Agadi nwanyi chose Umuofia and she went to wars with them, making them pound the men of Mbaino the way pestles do to palm nuts in a mortar of iroko. Yahweh must chose the Jews, not the sons of Nnebisis. But for a people not proud of who they are, for a people ready to trade identity with the Jews, one will be illogical to think they're not to dive into the kingdom of inferiority complex.
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The Igbos were responsible for the collapse of Asaba textile, the blacksmithing in Awka, the shoe and clothes factory in Aba and currently leading the way for the collapse of INNOSON and other upcoming igbo industries. The modus operandi for these collapses have always been the same. The remote causes the same. The farther the better! It was Igbo men and women that went outside to import cutlasses and other tools that crashed the Awka smithing Industry. It was the Igbo that went to Cotonou and other places to import clothes, shoes and killed the Asaba textile and those in Aba. But say it and watch the self induced intellectuals hiding in a land of proud people come up to shift the blame to other Nigerians.
Igbos are the second largest tribe in Lagos but IVM is as as scarce as scarcity in Lagos. Bit wait, it will be blamed on INNOSON or the government. You wont wait long.
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Tell me in reality, if Igbo rich men and middle class, Igbo governments and Igbo organizations started buying IVM, if Igbo car dealers starts displaying his cars, wont it selling? Wont it start attracting businesses to Nnewi? But like the young man mocking me for asking for a made in Aba shoe, its the Igbos that will mock you for asking for an IVM. You need to see them in Alaba. The Igbo is not creating any value for the future. Some believe that going to China to import junks is value. Value, is what you have in you. For a people who value Israel and Jew more than Igbo, the future is curvy.
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This brings us to our BIAFRA. It will probably be a Republic of Benin in the making where everything will be imported with local production dead and buried. Sadly, ignorance is difficult to cure. The same lots who go out to import tooth pick are the same people shouting dollar arigo. Why wouldnt it? Whats our value? Crude oil and whats the value of crude? Down. In the real world, its called the law of cause and effect and in the religious world, it may be called the law of sowing and reaping. The Igbos are not sowing better seeds for the future of Igbo nation by placing much value on import, imported things and importers. The ugly situation had gone to the extent where the Igbos now agreed that IMPORTER is a chieftaincy title. Because almost all Igbo values are now placed on importing, Igbo traders are now struggling to reach that most valuable height of import and not production and with us building our future on import, there will be an effect. The Igbo will have no investment value. We will have no export value and what more, our currency will be less sought after. Import based economies usually have low currency values.
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The Igbo should learn from the downfall of Nigeria. Nigeria relied on import and the only commodity they export is crude oil and now, its gone down and Nigeria will go with it because its loquacious and effeminate leaders were daft enough to believe that the value of crude oil will always be there. To love what is produced in other lands more than what is produced in your own land and to love other people's fairy tale more than your own fairy tale is a road -- a very broad road and the destination is always cultural, social and economic extinction.

Wow this got me thinking how did we get to this level as a people? Guys in Anambra take pride in the number of "Turn over" they make in a week! Flood the whole country with all manner of goods in the name of petty trading. We even add IMPORTER to our titles SMH!

Ihe ka ga di mma.

AlNur:
Wow this got me thinking how did we get to this level as a people? Guys in Anambra take pride in the number of "Turn over" they make in a week! Flood the whole country with all manner of goods in the name of petty trading. We even add IMPORTER to our titles SMH!

op forget that thing, running production in nigeria is not easy, due to failure of the go ernment to provide enabling environment for production activities to strives.

igbo man is business oriented and a risk taker as long as profit maximizing is guarrantteed, thus he takes the advantage created by the government negligence by importing goods to offset the huge cost of such goods if produced in Nigeria.

infact, made in Nigeria and local manufacturing are majory championed by the Igbos, Bank of Industry can attest to that.

AlNur:
Wow this got me thinking how did we get to this level as a people? Guys in Anambra take pride in the number of "Turn over" they make in a week! Flood the whole country with all manner of goods in the name of petty trading. We even add IMPORTER to our titles SMH!

You didn't tell us who collapsed the NAIRA, public school, importing fuel etc. Igbos are wise men from East.

AlNur:
Wow this got me thinking how did we get to this level as a people? Guys in Anambra take pride in the number of "Turn over" they make in a week! Flood the whole country with all manner of goods in the name of petty trading. We even add IMPORTER to our titles SMH!

isiokwu gi adighi mma, degharia ya biko.

o koro ndi beanyi onu.

daluu

Another anti-Igbo vituperation presented to you by the good folks of Nairaland.

Everything you described is a Nigerian problem and not Igbo problem, Igbos are even the only people trying in terms of going local, others totally lack local content

Another idiotic igbo thread

op, pls cry me ocean!

Must you whine about everything? There are over250 ethnic groups in Nigeria yet we won't be allowed rest.

Besides who wants to buy an overpriced pair of shoes only for it to open mouth after a week of wearing it?

Oga op, most of the things you said are generally Nigeria problems, na we make dollar to be 485k as at today?
Secondly, Innoson has himself to blame for low patronage, I have never see his advert for the first time and he wants to grow?

AlNur:
Excerpt from a facebook post.

The fellow who made mockery of me last week for openly asking for a made in Aba shoe was an Igbo probably from Anambra State.
I should have known better and expected such incivility from him. You see, the problem of the Igbo today is not only caused by illiteracy and superstition, the remote causes of most of these problems are audible silence from the few intellectuals. I do not blame the young man who mocked me for asking for a made in Aba shoe, I blame the Igbo intellectuals who had kept quiet and the self induced intellectuals who are only good at pushing every blame that should come to the Igbo away.
.
I must say it and emphatically, that the addition of Jewish delusion, radical Pentecostalism, unquestioning Catholicism, and the value on anything tagged import which extends to those called importers, have destroyed the psyche of the Igbo. Today, many of the people you see as Igbo have no characteristics of IGBO. I have in my book, written about the characteristics of the Igbo. These characteristics were four in numbers. Although, in that book, I didn't go further, but the fact is that if we are to involve technicalities, we may wound up not having enough people to call Igbo.
.
That young man would have thought 'bigger' of me if I had come asking for a made in Israel or Italian shoe. The present Igbo somehow have manufactured a theory I described as 'the farer the better.' An average Igbo man in the east believed that things manufactured in Lagos or Cotonou is always better than anything manufactured in Nnewi or Aba and are likely to go crazy over anything manufactured in US, China or Germany. One would be asking why I linked this up with Jewish delusion. And I will tell us.
.
Among the Igbo wanting to be Jews, what lay behind those caricature Jewish hat and costume, is a regret of not being a proper Jew. This delusion is not just common among the Igbo who have become practicing Judaists, but among 85% of Igbo Christians. It was Nnayi Chinua Achebe who noted that:
“Once you allowed yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface, it’s far removed from your situation. This is what I tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do – it can make us identify with situations and people far away. If it does that, it’s a miracle.” The truth is that every Igbo Christian would like to be Jewish. Number one, they believed that Jews are chosen people. But who the hell is not always chosen by their own god? Agadi nwanyi chose Umuofia and she went to wars with them, making them pound the men of Mbaino the way pestles do to palm nuts in a mortar of iroko. Yahweh must chose the Jews, not the sons of Nnebisis. But for a people not proud of who they are, for a people ready to trade identity with the Jews, one will be illogical to think they're not to dive into the kingdom of inferiority complex.
.
The Igbos were responsible for the collapse of Asaba textile, the blacksmithing in Awka, the shoe and clothes factory in Aba and currently leading the way for the collapse of INNOSON and other upcoming igbo industries. The modus operandi for these collapses have always been the same. The remote causes the same. The farther the better! It was Igbo men and women that went outside to import cutlasses and other tools that crashed the Awka smithing Industry. It was the Igbo that went to Cotonou and other places to import clothes, shoes and killed the Asaba textile and those in Aba. But say it and watch the self induced intellectuals hiding in a land of proud people come up to shift the blame to other Nigerians.
Igbos are the second largest tribe in Lagos but IVM is as as scarce as scarcity in Lagos. Bit wait, it will be blamed on INNOSON or the government. You wont wait long.
.
Tell me in reality, if Igbo rich men and middle class, Igbo governments and Igbo organizations started buying IVM, if Igbo car dealers starts displaying his cars, wont it selling? Wont it start attracting businesses to Nnewi? But like the young man mocking me for asking for a made in Aba shoe, its the Igbos that will mock you for asking for an IVM. You need to see them in Alaba. The Igbo is not creating any value for the future. Some believe that going to China to import junks is value. Value, is what you have in you. For a people who value Israel and Jew more than Igbo, the future is curvy.
.
This brings us to our BIAFRA. It will probably be a Republic of Benin in the making where everything will be imported with local production dead and buried. Sadly, ignorance is difficult to cure. The same lots who go out to import tooth pick are the same people shouting dollar arigo. Why wouldnt it? Whats our value? Crude oil and whats the value of crude? Down. In the real world, its called the law of cause and effect and in the religious world, it may be called the law of sowing and reaping. The Igbos are not sowing better seeds for the future of Igbo nation by placing much value on import, imported things and importers. The ugly situation had gone to the extent where the Igbos now agreed that IMPORTER is a chieftaincy title. Because almost all Igbo values are now placed on importing, Igbo traders are now struggling to reach that most valuable height of import and not production and with us building our future on import, there will be an effect. The Igbo will have no investment value. We will have no export value and what more, our currency will be less sought after. Import based economies usually have low currency values.
.
The Igbo should learn from the downfall of Nigeria. Nigeria relied on import and the only commodity they export is crude oil and now, its gone down and Nigeria will go with it because its loquacious and effeminate leaders were daft enough to believe that the value of crude oil will always be there. To love what is produced in other lands more than what is produced in your own land and to love other people's fairy tale more than your own fairy tale is a road -- a very broad road and the destination is always cultural, social and economic extinction.

Why are you people always creating Igbo threads up and down here? How many Yoruba and Hausa threads do u see? Are you this jobless?!

AlNur:
Excerpt from a facebook post.

The fellow who made mockery of me last week for openly asking for a made in Aba shoe was an Igbo probably from Anambra State.
I should have known better and expected such incivility from him. You see, the problem of the Igbo today is not only caused by illiteracy and superstition, the remote causes of most of these problems are audible silence from the few intellectuals. I do not blame the young man who mocked me for asking for a made in Aba shoe, I blame the Igbo intellectuals who had kept quiet and the self induced intellectuals who are only good at pushing every blame that should come to the Igbo away.
.
I must say it and emphatically, that the addition of Jewish delusion, radical Pentecostalism, unquestioning Catholicism, and the value on anything tagged import which extends to those called importers, have destroyed the psyche of the Igbo. Today, many of the people you see as Igbo have no characteristics of IGBO. I have in my book, written about the characteristics of the Igbo. These characteristics were four in numbers. Although, in that book, I didn't go further, but the fact is that if we are to involve technicalities, we may wound up not having enough people to call Igbo.
.
That young man would have thought 'bigger' of me if I had come asking for a made in Israel or Italian shoe. The present Igbo somehow have manufactured a theory I described as 'the farer the better.' An average Igbo man in the east believed that things manufactured in Lagos or Cotonou is always better than anything manufactured in Nnewi or Aba and are likely to go crazy over anything manufactured in US, China or Germany. One would be asking why I linked this up with Jewish delusion. And I will tell us.
.
Among the Igbo wanting to be Jews, what lay behind those caricature Jewish hat and costume, is a regret of not being a proper Jew. This delusion is not just common among the Igbo who have become practicing Judaists, but among 85% of Igbo Christians. It was Nnayi Chinua Achebe who noted that:
“Once you allowed yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface, it’s far removed from your situation. This is what I tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do – it can make us identify with situations and people far away. If it does that, it’s a miracle.” The truth is that every Igbo Christian would like to be Jewish. Number one, they believed that Jews are chosen people. But who the hell is not always chosen by their own god? Agadi nwanyi chose Umuofia and she went to wars with them, making them pound the men of Mbaino the way pestles do to palm nuts in a mortar of iroko. Yahweh must chose the Jews, not the sons of Nnebisis. But for a people not proud of who they are, for a people ready to trade identity with the Jews, one will be illogical to think they're not to dive into the kingdom of inferiority complex.
.
The Igbos were responsible for the collapse of Asaba textile, the blacksmithing in Awka, the shoe and clothes factory in Aba and currently leading the way for the collapse of INNOSON and other upcoming igbo industries. The modus operandi for these collapses have always been the same. The remote causes the same. The farther the better! It was Igbo men and women that went outside to import cutlasses and other tools that crashed the Awka smithing Industry. It was the Igbo that went to Cotonou and other places to import clothes, shoes and killed the Asaba textile and those in Aba. But say it and watch the self induced intellectuals hiding in a land of proud people come up to shift the blame to other Nigerians.
Igbos are the second largest tribe in Lagos but IVM is as as scarce as scarcity in Lagos. Bit wait, it will be blamed on INNOSON or the government. You wont wait long.
.
Tell me in reality, if Igbo rich men and middle class, Igbo governments and Igbo organizations started buying IVM, if Igbo car dealers starts displaying his cars, wont it selling? Wont it start attracting businesses to Nnewi? But like the young man mocking me for asking for a made in Aba shoe, its the Igbos that will mock you for asking for an IVM. You need to see them in Alaba. The Igbo is not creating any value for the future. Some believe that going to China to import junks is value. Value, is what you have in you. For a people who value Israel and Jew more than Igbo, the future is curvy.
.
This brings us to our BIAFRA. It will probably be a Republic of Benin in the making where everything will be imported with local production dead and buried. Sadly, ignorance is difficult to cure. The same lots who go out to import tooth pick are the same people shouting dollar arigo. Why wouldnt it? Whats our value? Crude oil and whats the value of crude? Down. In the real world, its called the law of cause and effect and in the religious world, it may be called the law of sowing and reaping. The Igbos are not sowing better seeds for the future of Igbo nation by placing much value on import, imported things and importers. The ugly situation had gone to the extent where the Igbos now agreed that IMPORTER is a chieftaincy title. Because almost all Igbo values are now placed on importing, Igbo traders are now struggling to reach that most valuable height of import and not production and with us building our future on import, there will be an effect. The Igbo will have no investment value. We will have no export value and what more, our currency will be less sought after. Import based economies usually have low currency values.
.
The Igbo should learn from the downfall of Nigeria. Nigeria relied on import and the only commodity they export is crude oil and now, its gone down and Nigeria will go with it because its loquacious and effeminate leaders were daft enough to believe that the value of crude oil will always be there. To love what is produced in other lands more than what is produced in your own land and to love other people's fairy tale more than your own fairy tale is a road -- a very broad road and the destination is always cultural, social and economic extinction.

But you are the one that has collapsed, Igbos are proud of themselves anywhere you see them.

One Nigeria is only thing keeping Igbo land down.

basilo101:
Everything you described is a Nigerian problem and not Igbo problem, Igbos are even the only people trying in terms of going local, others totally lack local content

dude, u guys go the traditional way, not the local way. Your penchant for trumpet blowing makes you think that other tribes have no more patronizes their cobbler, fashion designer or palm wine tapper.

If we're talking abt who likes to brag with imported things, it's Igbo!

There's a big difference between being superstitious and traditionally tethered and being local and liberated.

Tell me if I am wrong... Even guys who tailored ckoclothes and cobbles shoes in Aba will flaunt their rolex watch, Gucci belt, D&G sunglasses, LEVI jeans and shoes from heaven...

KINGwax007:




Tell me if I am wrong... Even guys who tailored ckoclothes and cobbles shoes in Aba will flaunt their rolex watch, Gucci belt, D&G sunglasses, LEVI jeans and shoes from heaven...

All locally made but the Nigeria Factor of everyone trying to associate with foreign ish has made the manufacturers tag their products with such name as Gucci, D&G etc.

BLAME THE IGBO. BLAME THE IGBO. BLAME THE IGBO. BLAME BLAME BLAME.

This is a Nigerian problem!!!!!!!!!!!

Nature129:


Why are you people always creating Igbo threads up and down here? How many Yoruba and Hausa threads do u see? Are you this jobless?!

Are you suffering from cancer of the hand Why don't you go ahead and create yours?? You will soon die of hate.

AlNur:
Are you suffering from cancer of the hand Why don't you go ahead and create yours?? You will soon die of hate.

Mechie onu gi! Gini n'eme di unu? kedu ubochi I ga-ama ihe? Tufia!

Boleyndynasty2:
All locally made but the Nigeria Factor of everyone trying to associate with foreign ish has made the manufacturers tag their products with such name as Gucci, D&G etc.

so, as old as u are, u dnt recognize imitations and the real deal?

Anyways, I am jonot talking abt imitations here. Base ur arguments on the real thing

Nature129:


Mechie onu gi! Gini n'eme di unu? kedu ubochi I ga-ama ihe? Tufia!

stop speaking in tongues...
Try to communicate or shut the fucck up!

AlNur:
Are you suffering from cancer of the hand Why don't you go ahead and create yours?? You will soon die of hate.

op topic gi a adighi mma, degharia ya.

read that comment again, you will get message the guy was trying to pass.

KINGwax007:
stop speaking in tongues... Try to communicate or shut the fucck up!

why can't people mind their own business? you are not Igbo but anything Igbo gives you low and high blood pressure.
don't allow Igbo matter to send you to your early grave.
is an advice alaye.

ElsonMorali:
Must you whine about everything? There are over250 ethnic groups in Nigeria yet we won't be allowed rest.

Besides who wants to buy an overpriced pair of shoes only for it to open mouth after a week of wearing it?

Please let's stop promoting that lie Gowon started about 250 this and that..

millionaireman:



But you are the one that has collapsed, Igbos are proud of themselves anywhere you see them.

One Nigeria is only thing keeping Igbo land down.

The guy is probably hiding in a safe corner watching when the e-figth between brothers go erupt.........

This guys are really jobless.
Anyway they keep promoting and advertising my tribe since 90ths.....many of them have probably gone six feet ''under'' because of envy.......Shame to the brown republics.

mensdept:



Please let's stop promoting that lie Gowon started about 250 this and that..

Go to Plateau state and inquire how many ethnic groups they have there.

I'll bet you've never left your geopolitical zone before right?

ElsonMorali:


Go to Plateau state and inquire how many ethnic groups they have there.

I'll bet you've never left your geopolitical zone before right?

What type of expression is Plateau for a name and who made that state?

I'll bet you don't even know why you are calling yourself a Ni.gga Arean abi?

mensdept:


What type of expression is Plateau for a name and who made that state?

I'll bet you don't even know why you are calling yourself a Ni.gga Arean abi?

OK.

Afonja go and die

KINGwax007:
dude, u guys go the traditional way, not the local way. Your penchant for trumpet blowing makes you think that other tribes have no more patronizes their cobbler, fashion designer or palm wine tapper.

If we're talking abt who likes to brag with imported things, it's Igbo!

There's a big difference between being superstitious and traditionally tethered and being local and liberated.

Tell me if I am wrong... Even guys who tailored ckoclothes and cobbles shoes in Aba will flaunt their rolex watch, Gucci belt, D&G sunglasses, LEVI jeans and shoes from heaven...

Then you have not seen Congo Zaireans yet. Many buy a pair of socks or a pant for $50 or even much more. As long as a big brand name like Armani, Gucci or Vivian Westwood is emblazoned on it. And even pull the pant out if you get into an argument with him over a completely unrelated matter, just to taunt you that his pant or socks alone costs more than everything you are wearing from head to toe.

Fact is we Africans have been so robbed of our self-esteem that overtly or subconsciously, we do not really believe in our own abilities.
That is a fact.

To denigrate local products, they are derisively called "Awka made, Aba made, Okrika made". Therefore, the East still mostly represents the location of local fabrication & manufacturing. Especially small scale & family concerns making things. Pretty much like Italy used to be.

I have heard that some shoes with "Made in Italy" tags are actually Aba made. Local makers are frustrated by lack of patronage of their very high quality products if taged made in Nigeria.