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Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by seunmsg(m): 10:12pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
thatareaguy: Wrong! The coup succeeded in effecting a change of government. The only downside was that the primary coup plotters didn’t form the new government. Personally, I’m not convinced things would have been done differently if the original “revolutionaries” had taken over the government after the fall of the Balewa government. |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by OyiboOyibo(m): 10:13pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
Elemosho478: Is that what your history teacher taught you? 4 Likes |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by LolaCole1(f): 10:13pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
PFRB: She was 47 then 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by UKBobo(m): 10:13pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
Sirjamo: Well, we saw how that alliance worked out...lol 3 Likes |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by UgoManchester(m): 10:14pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
Wow, That was lovely to behold. very courageour woman. Our Girls of nowadays can only lead you to hotels and night clubs |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by jadeliyi(m): 10:15pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
Amuocha:can you accentuate the way she contributed to the suppose terribe mess in nigeria's political history 2 Likes |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by Nobody: 10:16pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
johnie:The original poster has turned it upside that it was Fela's mother that led them to London, whereas it was actually Zik that led the delegation. I don't know when some people will stop twisting history and facts. 11 Likes |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by Elemosho478: 10:16pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
OyiboOyibo: Azikiwe neglected Awolowo that they both fought for Independence to form allegiance with the north just because of power, he sold the south to the North and betrayed Yoruba but Yoruba never be a bitch and accuse igbo of anything but it is Igbo that is playing the Victim Card today. Igbo is a tribe of Traitors, losers and envious souls Everything that is wrong with Nigeria started from them but they are the one playing the Victim Card today 10 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by TemmyT002(m): 10:18pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
The original Nigerian feminist 2 Likes |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by Oloripelebe: 10:18pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
Good old days before the ipob party (NCNC) led by Nnamdi Azikwe and funded by okotie eboh allied with northern political party (NPC) against the Action group (AG) led by obafemi Awolowo Flatinoooos are the serial betrayal from the beginning but their Indomie generation wl keep on blaming Yorubas for their misfortune We go show dem pepper 14 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by goaldynboy: 10:18pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
From the pictures, that place is not London! That place is the thick forest of Obalende at that time! The white man is Sir Macpherson, the Governor - General as at that time!! 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by Elemosho478: 10:18pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
Mandeyy: You still don't get the point ? When Azikiwe worked with South West to fought for independence why did he betray the south and then joined with the North? Azikiwe was a traitor and he was the one that sold the south to the North but no one is talking about it May thunder fire Azikiwe wherever he is 4 Likes |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by GoodGodmykeeper(m): 10:19pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
Wao |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by Nobody: 10:20pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
enemyofprogress:Ogbeni I have cash u today. Ngwa, bring that chicken plus ya two years rent money and come and see me, ozigbo! 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by seunmsg(m): 10:21pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
sapele914: America’s civil war was a battle between what is right versus what is wrong. It was a battle of good versus evil. Nigeria’s civil war on the other hand was an ego battle. It was a war that should never have happened in the first instance. The events that led to the civil war should also never have happened. The combinations of the pre-civil war events and the actual civil war is why we are so divided and underdeveloped today. 2 Likes |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by Elemosho478: 10:22pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
They betrayed Yoruba from the Beginning and sold off the South to the North but today they are the one playing the Victim Card when they are really the Genesis of everything that is wrong with Nigeria. Igbo is a tribe of Traitors but they will tell you today that Yoruba is the problem 3 Likes |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by jrusky(m): 10:22pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
Mace0lane: Haha oginni biko that is too harsh and rude. Every tribe celebrate their hero but see how you rubbished Zik this is too embarrassing. 2 Likes |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by yesloaded: 10:23pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
Tadeus:No thanks to our wicked leaders & some senseless youths Truth be told, the damage done by wicked leaders is huge & they will not stop until we stop them. Since independent, same people recycling themselves, their children, relatives, & some idiots choose to be singing their praises just because of crumbles 1 Like |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by adeniyi65(m): 10:25pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
sparog: It's like we share same opinion on what really course setback for us in this country.unripe Independence and our culture. 1 Like |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by yesloaded: 10:26pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
seunmsg: This is not correct! Go n check history very well to understand Genesis of the problem of this country 4 Likes |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by OyiboOyibo(m): 10:26pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
Unknown Soldier- Fela Kuti Make you no go anywhere Just wait make I tell you something [Chorus] Fela, you don come again! I never come again I still live dey faraway Make you wait till I reach where I dey go [Chorus] Where you dey go? Make I reach... Make I reach Don't ask me Wait and see I say, I say, I say... This thing wey happen Happen for my country Na big big thing First time in the whole world If you hear the name, you go know Government magic Tell me the name now [Chorus] Government magic! Them go dabaru everything Them go turn green into white Them go turn red into blue Water dey go, water dey come Water dey go, water dey come Them go turn electric to candle Them go turn electric to candle Government magic Government magic I see dey come Small, small Look o, look o [Chorus] Left, right, left, right, left, right, left! One thousand soldiers them dey come People dey wonder, dey wonder, dey wonder One more time: people dey wonder, dey wonder, dey wonder Stevie Wonder dey there too Na one week after FESTAC too And dey broadcast on American satellite Around that time too now, I say to you Where these one thousand soldiers them dey go? Look o Na Fela house Kalakuta Them don reach the place, them dey wait Them dey wait for... [Chorus] Order! Now listen [Chorus] Left, right, left, right, left, right, left! Them surround the place, kwam kwam kwam, them dey wait Wait them helmet and them guns And them petrol and them matches Then again... [Chorus] Stand at ease! Fela dey for house Beko dey there too Them mama dey there too Beautiful people dey there too Frenchman dey there too Press man dey there too One-fifty of us dey there too Then suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly... [Chorus] Jaba, jaba... Jubu, jubu... Jebe, jebe... Jawa, jawa... Them dey break, yes Them dey steal, yes Them dey loot, yes Them dey Bleep some of the women by force, yes Them dey rape, yes Them dey burn, yes Them dey burn, yes Them dey burn, yes Them commot one student's eye, yes Them break some some head Them break some some head Them throw my mama Seventy-eight-year-old mama Political mama Ideological mama Influential mama... Them throw my mama out from window Them kill my mama Them kill my mama Them kill my mama Them kill my mama Them kill my mama Them carry everybody Them carry everybody go inside jail [Chorus] Fall out! Everybody dey inside jail We dey wait twenty-seven days Them lock us Press dey shout Radio dey ring People dey talk Them go burn Fela house Wettin this Fela do? This government e bad o Wetin this Fela do? Fela talk about soldiers Flogging civilians for streets Fela talk about government Wasting money for FESTAC Wetin this Fela do? This government e bad o People start to talk o Government start to shake o Then suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly... Government bring instruments of magic Them bring inquiry Them bring two men One soldier, one Justice The name of Justice: Mr. Justice Agwu Anya The other Justice: Mr. Justice Dosunmu Them start magic Them seize my house wey them don burn Them seize my land Them drive all the people wey live in area Two thousand citizens Them make them all homeless now Them start magic Them start magic Them bring flame, them bring hat Them conjure, them bring rabbit Them bring egg, them bring smoke Them dey scream, them dey fall Them conjure, spirit catch them Them dey fall, them dey scream Them dey shout Them dey, them dey say [Chorus] Unknown soldier! Na him do am Government magic I get some information for you I get some information for you That my mama wey you kill She fought for universal adult suffrage That my mama wey you kill She fought for universal adult suffrage That my mama wey you kill She is the only mother of this country That my mama wey you kill She is the only mother of Nigeria Which kind injustice is this? Wetin concern government inside? If na unknown soldier I said, wetin concern government inside? If na unknown soldier We get unknown police We get unknown soldier We get unknown civilian All is equal to unknown government We get unknown police Them go kill nine students We get unknown civilian Them go kill two soldiers We get unknown soldier I say unknown police And then unknown soldier And then unknown civilian All is equal to unknown government Them turn green into red Them turn blue into white Them turn green into blue I'm finished, mother 8 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by yesloaded: 10:27pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
adeniyi65: You are right to some extent |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by OyiboOyibo(m): 10:27pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
"Them throw my mama Seventy-eight-year-old mama Political mama Ideological mama Influential mama... Them throw my mama out from window Them kill my mama Them kill my mama Them kill my mama Them kill my mama Them kill my mama"... Fela 2 Likes |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by Ugosample(m): 10:28pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
AngelicBeing: because they are all stupid the inclination of a typical black man is to think short sighted and not reason properly. You can see that exemplified in Nigeria If not, is it not better to build a country THAT YOU ALL WILL BE PROUD OF than to form tribal superiority I don tire for Nigeria foolishness |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by Ugosample(m): 10:30pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
Elemosho478: @angelicbeing look at one of them 3 Likes |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by 9gerian: 10:30pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
Well there’s a storyline that stated that Amadu Bello had insisted that should the west and East join forces politically during the first republic, the North would be forced to pull out of the union called Nigeria. Zik appeared to have been sympathetic to the North’s concern for being left behind in the scheme of things. There were mistakes from all sides, even today... Elemosho478: 6 Likes |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by Plaouse(m): 10:31pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
hehe |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by oforjide: 10:32pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
Zik was indeed a great man,well exposed. He understood everybody regardless of tribe and religion. What a wonderful man,he still remain the most civilized person to come from the old eastern region and nigeria as whole. May ur departed soul continue to rest in the bossom of our lord. 5 Likes |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by Elemosho478: 10:33pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
9gerian: No Excuse Azikiwe was a Big loser and Traitor may thunder fire him wherever he is Azikiwe was the reason no Yoruba would ever trust Igbo again, but the funniest thing is that Igbo are the one playing Victim today. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by Gforce2019: 10:33pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
Amuocha: How? |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by 9gerian: 10:33pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
Hmm another low in the history of Nigeria. It must have been very sad for the family and their people. OyiboOyibo: |
Re: Funmilayo Kuti Led Yoruba Kings & Nnamdi Azikwe To London In 1947-pics by OyiboOyibo(m): 10:34pm On Apr 20, 2019 |
Elemosho478:THE BETRAYED AND THE BETRAYER: CASE OF DR. NNAMDI AZIKIWE AND CHIEF OBAFEMI AWOLOWO, PUTTING EVENTS IN PROPER PERSPECTIVE The Nigeria Youth Movement (NYM) to which Azikiwe joined in 1937 upon his return to Nigeria was founded on the precepts of "gradualism" and "accomodationism." Azikiwe wanted to move it to a more engaged politics of "opposition nationalism" based on his own exposure and orientation. There was a clash of ideas and methods. The grandees of the NYM, whose engagement with the colonial authorities was all about the opening of elite spaces and opportunities for Africans thought that Azikiwe's ideas, methods and orientation was "too dangerous" and was going to rock their apple stands. This upstart from America of all places did not conform to the call of the older generation with their "ginkana parties" and "egbon nationalism" to navigate elite interests gradually that would see a few over the years occupy "European positions." Azikiwe wanted a transfer, not just of positions, but of power to Africans. He broke ideologically with the NYM, resurrected the worsted "lion of Lagos," Herbert Macaulay, and with his control of the first powerful network of indigenous newspapers awakened a new generation of Africans to the possibility of their sovereignty. His appeal was not to the "Lagos elite" of the established Saro merchant class and professionals with its deeply Yoruba roots in Lagos, but to a growing middle class of young people - clerks, traders, artisans, and those who never had a voice until Azikiwe arrived - the "youth of Africa." Many of these happened to be the new urban Igbo, and there was in equal number, the new young, urban youth from all over Nigeria who flocked around Azikiwe, and essentially "retired" the old NYM grandees from relevance. In 1947, the movement which Azikiwe had spearheaded was at that vital turning point of creating a truly "nationalist" movement. It was also in this period, following the fierce debates about the coverage of the Atlantic treaty which Azikiwe and his followers had led, which compelled the United Nations (UN) to adopt the charter of human rights, and which gave grounds for decolonization, that the British began to seriously discuss what they called the "Zik problem." In his notes to William Blackburne, Harold Cooper, the M16 man in Lagos, working under the cover as the Director of Public Relations in the newly created Public Relations Office set out in a memo the basic plan of action to deal with this "problem of Zik." He basically said that it would be futile at that stage in 1947, given the momentum Azikiwe had generated in nationalist struggle to continue to use suppression or even physical elimination, as it would not only anger and embolden the young nationalists who had flocked around Zik, but might give greater momentum to Azikiwe. He recommended a strategic targeting and recruitment of what he called the "malleable margin" of the young nationalists and other "progressives" and use them to counter Azikiwe's work and influence. That is how that lingo had survived - the difference between the "nationalists" and the "progressives." And we know those who call themselves "progressives." But at that time, it was a code word for those whom the British found amenable for a partnership - that "malleable margin" who were then promised power in postcolonial Nigeria under British guidance. They began to be called "progressives" and "moderates" while Azikiwe and the nationalists were often described as "radical" and "extremist" in the British colonial press and official communications. It was in this period that Awolowo arrived: suddenly rich, powerful, and influential. From the bankrupted produce trader and newspaper reporter, and indigent law student in London, Awo came home suddenly, a successful newspaper publisher with a thriving law firm in Ibadan, and with money to organize politically in 1947. Where did it all come from? That's a question for another day. However, what is relevant here is that (a) in 1947, the British colonial government helped to fund and organize what became the Action Group (AG) and the Northern Peoples Congress (NPC). In fact, they tried to broker a partnership between them, which eventually floundered during negotiations over the question of who would lead the alliance. As a matter of fact, one of the key highpoints of that partnership was the use of Bode Thomas as the lawyer to free Ahmadu Rabah (later Ahmadu Bello) from the charges of stealing brought against him by the Sokoto Native Authority in 1947; (b) it was precisely in this moment that the British helped to circulate the ideas of an unwholesome Nigeria with its regionalist character rather than a nationalist Nigeria with a common mission. Political statements from the likes of Awolowo and Bello helped to solidify this idea of a Nigeria of "differences" who must relate to each other on those differences, while Azikiwe was writing and shouting against the British ploy, with their local agents to "Pakistanize" Nigeria - in reference to what had happened in that period with India's partition with which the British had threatened the nationalists, and (c) the nationalist movement was strategically undermined, broken, and penetrated in that moment. All attempts to push Zik to declare an armed struggle which would have provided the British the final excuse to destroy the leadership of the nationalist movement failed, and it continued towards home rule - including the use of the Forster-Sutton commission. As a matter of fact in one of the most revealing letters ever written by Awolowo to his British masters over the "problem of Zik" in 1957 towards the London conferences, Awolowo stated clearly that the British should no longer worry about Zik. "we damaged him seriously with the inquiry" referring to the Forster-Sutton commission. The British organized the Ibadan "carpet-crossing" fiasco of 1951 in its bid to prevent Zik from leading a government, and providing the nationalists a ground from which to determine the outcomes of the transition towards decolonization: the strategic capacity was aided by Awo's minder, Mr. Foot, who was almost assassinated by one of Azikiwe's followers, a clerk in the Secretariat, who was arrested and sent to the Yaba asylum. But two things later happened: Azikiwe as leader of opposition in the parliament forced Awolowo to nationalize the Western Nigerian civil service, a situation which damaged Awo's standing with his British friends. A brewing party in-fight with the old guard that wanted to formalize the earlier alliance with the NPC increasingly grew with Awo still unwilling to "concede" leadership the "North." It all came to a head at the AG party conference in Jos in 1962. But this was all down the line. As it turned out, by 1957 Azikiwe and the nationalists had been thoroughly outmaneuvered by the British, both at the London conferences and at home, and the roles played by Awolowo and Bello in this regard, are all too clear. But a weakened Zik was further undermined with the British-instigated intra-party crisis that rocked the nationalist party in 1958, leading to the 1959 election. Azikiwe only managed to resolve that crisis by the force of his personality and kept the nationalist party together to go into the 1959 elections. Awolowo on the other hand, running on full steam on the banner of a regional party, had been promised premiership of Nigeria if he could stop Zik in the South. The elections came. Zik's party won the South convincingly. But the Nationalist party allies, Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU), suffered voter suppression; imprisonment of its candidates in the elections, and the result was that in places where NEPU and the Nationalist alliance should have won in the North, the NPC was declared unopposed and returned. At the end of the counts, although the Nationalist party secured the plurality of votes nationwide - that is, although Azikiwe and the nationalist party remained the most popular party north and South - they could not lead the government of Nigeria because of the ways that the British had helped to gerrymander the votes from 1956 to that 1959 election. Awolowo was not a target of the British. He was in the large scheme of that struggle of no particular threat to the British. He was what they called a "moderate" and a "progressive." The British organized, funded, and supported the AG! As was clear in the nature of Azikiwe's file in the British archives even today, Zik was the central issue in the African Liberation movement in the British colonial imagination, and all levers were pulled to stop him. At the end of the 1959 election, Awolowo and his faction of the AG party offered to work with Zik, while another faction wanted to work with the NPC. The Eastern Committee of the NCNC opted to work with Awolowo and form a government. The Western committee of the party however vowed to leave the NCNC if the party chose to work with Awo. Azikiwe listened carefully, and he made a choice, and he was clear about it on the following principles: (a) as a responsible party leader, he had to listen to his party, and navigate carefully particularly with a party that had just come out of a national crisis, (b) as the leader of the nationalist movement, it would be irresponsible to isolate the North by working with Awolowo and establishing what would essentially be a government of the Southern parties, (c) it would be irresponsible given the fragility of Nigeria to allow an essentially regional party like the NPC to go it alone in forming a government of a nation in rapid political transition. It would need the nationalist party to provide the backbone required to establish a postcolonial government in the general interest, (d) It was difficult to trust Awolowo and his men, given past experiences, and (e) tomorrow was another day. The nationalists would bid their time and take over government without the interference of the British through the democratic process. All that calculation was based on a very rational premise. Meanwhile, in a bid to reposition himself to the new political reality and circumvent the crisis brewing inside his own party with the old guard essentially, and having become embittered with what Azikiwe always knew as "British chicanery," Awolowo opposed the proposed security partnership with Britain, and became a target from then on, particularly as he began to build alliances with Nkrumah by 1960/61. Awolowo was thus smashed with the same methods that the British used to smash the man they called "uppity Zik." But this was because by 1962, Awolowo began to work with the so-called "young turks" of his party - S.G. Ikoku, Akpata, Bola Ige, and so on to create a national political opposition. It should be clear that when he was confronted with his own party crisis, Awo lacked the maturity, capacity, and political capital and experience to steer his party aright, unlike Zik, who showed formidable leadership and control when his party spinned into a national crisis in 1958, and Awo and his party were celebrating how "undisciplined" and "disorganized" the NCNC was. It is important to keep Nigeria's nationalist history in perspective beyond all the new fangled mythologizing that now take place in an attempt to sanitize Nigeria's national narrative. 3 Likes |
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