ReubenE:

You got me
......but then, it is an advise so she is at liberty to ignore or take it.
She also reserves the right to advise me to respect hers too.

nwabobo:


At least they attended one physically. Even your great Awolowo attended University by correspondence.

adeolakemi:
like I said you obviously be watching African magic ...your in-law was reported for what again? please stop this story cos this seems like tales you hardly see other ethnic group participate actively in anything outside their ethnicity so please we know where their problems lies and Igbo's don't envy intact yorybas do that the more

blazhykowskyi:


Don't you know how dumb you sound?

Nollywood is a mirror of the society of those actors. You portray what happens in your environment through art and literature. Have you seen a Hollywood movie portraying juju or a Nollywood sci fi?

You ibos are very dumb.

nwabobo:

ReubenE:

I knew you would say the above.

I lived with the Igbos for quite a long while, even now I still visit from time to time because I have a family in Imo State.

You may think all I said concerning the Igbos are tales of Nollywood, but I am not perturbed because you're at liberty to believe anything you want.
From experience, I discovered that Igbos have nuclear grade envy for others that do better than them.
If you eat meat pass dem, na problem. If you buy a car before they do especially when you are sharing the same facility, they get envious, to the point of arranging for hoodlums to steal the car so that you can be at per with them.
One cannot hold the position of a market secretary when you don't share the same ethnicity with them. I remember back then in Imo State, out of envy, some Igbo traders reported my in-law to the authorities that he is dealing in illegal business after he indicated his interest to become the president of their trade union.....my brother, the list is endless.

This is no Nollywood cuz I don't even see their movies

adeolakemi:
just as the slavery attitudes and juju practiced being displayed in African magic Yoruba is the true reflexion of the Yoruba race like I said Yoruba race needs help its dying slowly

Throwback:


The Igbo men were celebrating an achievement of attending a black university that was irrelevant then and has continued to be an irrelevant university till today.

Meanwhile at that same time, even Yoruba women were already attending world renowned universities in the UK, talkless of the Yoruba men who had been attending world class universities and contributing to the growth of Yoruba land before the 1900's.

Those Universities ranging from Cambridge to Oxford, to London, to Edinburgh, are still world renowned till today and rank way higher than some Negro university that was and remains unspoken.

Even Femi Fani Kayode's grandfather was already educated as a lawyer at Cambridge long before Azikiwe found himself wandering through a Negro school in the USA. At the time Yoruba's were studying in notable schools in the 1870's, the Igbos did not even know how to read and write. By the time Yoruba's already had 2nd generation doctors and doctorate engineers before 1900, the Igbos had only started wearing the socks of the British on their heads. By the time the Yoruba's were already clamouring for a University in Yorubaland, the Igbos had only began coming to Lagos to work as houseboys for the British colonial officers.

if Azikiwe wanted to assist his fellow Igbos to attain foreign university education, why not put them on a higher pedestal than the unknown university he attended? Then he even had to gloat about such mediocre achievement in his own newspaper?

Like I will always say, I still blame Ajayi Crowther for teaching Igbo bushmen how to letter their own language. Else, we would have not had any catching up that has always occupied the Igbo mind. A catching up that China Achebe was also ecstatic about.



CC: melzabull

Lordspicy:


and we still bypassed you people

Lordspicy:


and we still bypassed you people

deomelllo:



And you are still begging, shouting and crying marginalization.

The only thing you bypassed is yourself.

Throwback:


To study commerce by distance learning which enabled him to effectively serve as finance minister many years later.

However, you conveniently forgot he later found his way to the prestigious university of London, a world renowned university, to study law. From which he would better understand politics and effectively govern as the first premier of the Western region.

Many years later, Azikiwe was still sending Igbo kids to a Negro university that has remained irrelevant till today.

deomelllo:



And you are still begging, shouting and crying marginalization.

The only thing you bypassed is yourself.

nwabobo:


Where is University of London located?

Their address I mean.

Throwback:


It depends on what college you are enquiring about.

Is it the founding colleges of UCL or KCL?

Is it LSE or LBS, or the former component Imperial College?

Or are you doubting the widely known fact that Awolowo read law as a resident student in London at the prestigious University of London and was called to the English bar before he returned to Nigeria?

Was that feat even rare in the Yoruba land of Awolowo's time?

nwabobo:


Which of the colleges did Awo attend. Just asking out of curiosity as I'm currently studying in one of the prestigious colleges.

Throwback:


Either of UCL or LSE.

At that time, it wasn't so relevant to specify which college as it is now.

All that mattered then was that you graduated from UoL.

Throwback:


Brotherly, the matter tire me ooo.

The same person gloating in one breath is the same person lamenting marginalization and being held down by other tribes in another breath.

Throwback:


Igbo strangers full Ajegunle. Try out Mba street for AJ city.

Continue to console yourself, while your brother Kettykin is paying N1.5m annually to Yoruba landlord.

The same Kettykin who had devoted his time on Nairaland to campaigning for Igbos to return home and divest from Yoruba land. He claimed they were the soul of Banking, ICT, Real Estate, bla bla bla. That Yoruba's will suffer economically if Igbos take out their investment and return home.

What the foolish joker didn't say then was that he was equally living in Lagos and making a living there. Not until his pride was bitterly hurt by the thread that displayed how Yorubas controlled the real estate business in the SouthWest, before the dolt also lamented that his lazy Yoruba landlord was charging him N1.5m for an apartment that wasn't up to scratch.

So continue deceiving yourselves.

nwabobo:


Why did Awo commit suicide





.....allegedly.

nwabobo:


That's him. I'm a landlord in Lagos to Yoruba peeps

Throwback:


And that is the greatest accomplishment of an Igbo man?

And that makes every Igbo in Yoruba land a wealthy landlord and every Yoruba a wretch who has a ramshackle to let out?

I didn't know you looked at Yorubas with such great admiration, that you feel fulfilled that they are the ones that pay rent so your family can feed.

nwabobo:
..

kramer:


It is at this point that you lost the argument completely. You had no comeback to deomello so all you could do was post a foolish picture. You should STFU and log out of nairaland.

nwabobo:


Ouch, I must hsve hit a raw nerve.

kramer:


Oh yesss.. you did, it's bcuz your comeback was soooo weak shiit mehn, you deserve to be flogged by your people mercilessly honestly you should off your internet abeg or better still give it to somebody who needs it bikonu

Peace out

kramer:


It is at this point that you lost the argument completely. You had no comeback to deomelllo so all you could do was post a foolish picture. You should STFU and log out of nairaland.

Throwback:


It is the story Igbos tell their kids at night so that they can all sleep better.

Do you know that Awolowo was a GCFR while neither Azikiwe nor Ojukwu was?

Do you know that the very punitive measures carried out as response to Biafra's illegal cessation from Nigeria, are the same measure earlier articulated by Azikiwe in his response to Northern Region's threat to pull out of Nigeria during the independence debates?

Nigeria’s foremost novelist Chinua Achebe has claimed that Nigerians,especially of the Hausa/Fulani and the Yoruba stocks, do not like his Igbo ethnic group because of the southeast’s cultural advantage.

He traced the origin of “the national resentment of the Igbo” to its culture that “gave the Igbo man an unquestioned advantage over his compatriots in securing credentials for advancement in Nigerian colonial society.”

He observed that the Igbo culture’s emphasis on change, individualism and competitiveness gave his ethnic group an edge over the Hausa/Fulani man who was hindered by a “wary religion” and the Yoruba man who was hampered by” traditional hierarchies.”

He narrated the earlier advantage of Yoruba as contingent on their location on the coastline, but once the missionaries crossed the Niger, the Igbo took advantage of the opportunity and overtook the Yoruba.

The increase was so exponential in such a short time that within three short decades the Igbos had closed the gap and quickly moved ahead as the group with the highest literacy rate, the highest standard of living, and the greatest of citizens with postsecondary education in Nigeria,” he contended.

He said Nigerian leadership should have taken advantage of the gbo talent and this failure was partly responsible for the failure of the Nigerian state, explaining further that competitive individualism and the adventurous spirit of the Igbo was a boon Nigerian leaders failed to recognize and harness for modernization.


Why Nigerians hate Igbos, by Chinua Achebe