amuwo1980:
Did she really say that? Am shocked she is this political naive.

Marine54:
If referendum is conducted today in Igbo land to choose between Igbo presidency and succession.
Majority will choose succession over presidency!

Charmingrascal:
No tribe or region in Nigeria is completely in unison, as long as there are different intellectuals and individuals there will always be diverse of thoughts.


"Igbo can't do this, Igbos can't do that" is just another way of causing unnecessary digression
Everybody must not support a cause, sometimes it is not the quantity of those who are for a cause that matters it is the quality, the weight, the strength, the zeal and passion.

I am Yoruba but I can tell you that Biafra can be achieved if the zeal and passion to achieve it is strong.
Even though on several occasions I have disagreed and openly condemned Kanu's way of agitating I think Kanu has the interest of Igbos at heart more than some of these so called Igbo elites, intellectuals and politicians.
In what way has Chimanda supported the Biafra or Igbo Presidency agenda?

Ka ye pa iro fun ara wa.
Ko si nkan nkan to wu ni lori lati je omo orile ede yi.

How many Yorubas supported Obasanjo's Presidency?
He still won because sometimes it is not about the quantity but the quality.


Nigeria is too big to have a central government, we need to restructure or break up.

The discourse now should not be whether Igbos are United or not, it should rather be how can she contribute her own quota in helping the Igbos achieve what they want.

OneTemplate:



Did you go to school? If yes did you sleep through all lessons? If not, what is confusing in Adichie's opinion which is that Igbos are confused and not united over what they want and thus likely to fail? What she writes below is clear enough for even a child of 6 to understand.

You guys are just too egotistical, belligerent and vainglorious to ever accept correction over your redundant ways and mindset.

OneTemplate:


Where is Tinubu mentioned here and what concerns him with words meant to make Igbos do some introspection and soul-searching?

Go and deal with the issues one of your foremost and most revered Igbos has raised and leave Tinubu off your tongue for once.

Abi Adichie is no longer in the category of Igbos who can say and do no wrong?

AtikuNetwork:


https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2021/1/igbo-people-cant-unite-for-presidency-yet-talk-about-biafra-chimamanda-adichie.html


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGA6fTdInfo

Okoroawusa:

Did you read her comment up there about how she and her sisters treated at their father's burial?

Mr doubter..

Dreambeat:
And who told her that most Igbos would choose presidency over Biafra? It is only the politicians that want presidency, the average Igbo man wants Biafra

Ojiofor:


The miscreants will be screaming 'give us Biafra, we don't want presidency'Who is going to give the mad people Biafra,Fulani or Yoruba president?
The truth is that MNK does not care about the welfare or political development of Igbo people,rather he want marginalisation of SE to continue for him to continue selling his hate gosple to our extremely gullible youths.

CzarChris:
Is she the Ada of the family? What are you even saying here? So she should find a canopy and sit-down, then who will attend to the guest? Are those the qualities of a good host? I'm the only son of my family, during my dad's burial i was too busy greeting guest and making sure that everyone that attended the burial was well cathered for rather than looking for a sit to sit-down and cross my legs. This even shows that she has a shallow personality all in the name of feminism. And yes you just confirmed my doubt, you are definitely not Igbo, please represent your tribe and stop impersonating ours. Thank you.
In Igbo tradition the Umuada are the most powerful group, even more powerful than the umunna. Nobody dares go against the decision of the Umuada even the Chief and Ezes dare not go against the Umuada. Stop your ignorance and misinforming others on what you know nothing about.

achymmania:

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religion is part of ones personal life bro. The fact that someone is Igbo does not mean he should be a Christian. Pls respect people's choices.

Organs:


This is 2021 and youre still in this nonsense unattainable mindset.

Activist001:

You were making sense until you got to the "MNK" part. lol.

PatriotExact:


My brother, if I'm permitted to develop a theory, it will be based on the assumption that Nnamdi Kanu is working for the dominant political elites. Either consciously or unconsciously.

Ojiofor:


The miscreants will be screaming 'give us Biafra, we don't want presidency'Who is going to give the mad people Biafra,Fulani or Yoruba president?
The truth is that MNK does not care about the welfare or political development of Igbo people,rather he want marginalisation of SE to continue for him to continue selling his hate gosple to our extremely gullible youths.

Ojiofor:
Igbos miscreants are saboteurs of Igbo presidency project.

WelcomeToBiafra:


Go to hell with useless presidency.

Okoroawusa:

Ojiofor the matter no tire u? Me I just decided to focus on her comment about culture. I don't want to go to her political comment in the interview because I will just be giving myself headache for nothing.

OneTemplate:
Lol Adichie trying to be diplomatic and let Igbos and their fragile egos down lightly. She should just come out and say she regrets being Igbo and an Igbo woman specifically because we know how scathing and mercilessly critical she would be, placard and all, if a Yoruba woman , in Yorubaland, went through what her and her mother went through at her father's funeral.

This is another Igbo who will certainly never ever live in SE Nigeria but does not want to risk upsetting Igbo coming out to say their ways is repressive, unfair, shameful and disgustly misogynistic.

IPOBian, one of your most distinguished female has spoken. Hope you can all see you have work to do and are far behind the civilised , sophisticated and effortlessly suave Yorubas you're always trying to square up to.

Go and fix your broken homes, States and region instead of obsessing over others. I am sure that is the message Adichie would love to pass but can never knowing you intolerant babies would likely banish her family from ala Igbo. Lol.

Ojiofor:


I wasn't even addressing Chimanda but rather Internet ppeople of Biafra(IPOB).

Okoroawusa:

Hey! Ojiofor! You have changed the name to Internet People of Biafra (IPOB)? Hahahaha!... this is the first time I am hearing this one o!

OneTemplate:


Lol. You Igbos and your egotistical outlook. You think you guys are the only ones who note that Nigeria needs fundamental reforms?

Of course not. The difference is that others know to try and work pragmatically through legally enforceable and constitutional-endorsed avenues of change.

Best example is control of ultimate executive power through the office of the Presidency many believe the South should work for and can use to shape Nigeria in a more equitable image whereas you Igbos are always anarchic, ehtnocentric, hateful, bigoted and extremist in approach.

You guys have not changed from the same lawless people who illegally and impatiently declared Biafra , against the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria, to gain what you wanted, regardless of it's illegality in law, only to then cry 'genocide' when you became the main victim of a war you could never win yet went ahead to prosecute mindlessly and egotistically anyway.

Today, it is history repeating itself. Political solutions are required yet you Igbos, with the antics of Kanu and your incendiary approach, want to force an ethnic/internecine strife alone as your preferred solution. let's see how things play out.

AreaFada2:

She is not naive. She is strategic.
She claims fighting racism but rubbishes her culture. She claims embracing African culture with hairstyle and attire but promotes lesbianism and gay stuff. She wrote a novel about Biafra but rubbishes the idea of modern Biafra. She claims to be a proud black woman but codedly promotes Western permissiveness. She preaches feminism but is married with kids and probably does traditional things for her hubby at home.

When somebody starts winning all these awards from oyinbo, for writing and saying what they like, I begin to look at the person carefully. Whose. Interest they actually serve.

This lady is sweet talking all the sides, especially those who call the shorts. The whites call the shorts globally and the Nigerian state does so nationally. Both have more to offer her than Africa and non-existent Biafra state.

Very clever lady. But necessarily on the best side of history.

OROSUNBOLB:


What ? You can only be civil with those who understand the meaning of civility. Those guys are a bunch of hotheads who you can't afford to treat like a civilized people.

Haven't you been reading their comments here and in other threads ? Most Igbos here are incapable of having a decent discourse without resulting to name callings and insults especially, when confronted with facts.

Yes, we are Omoluabis,and that's a major reason why these nyanmiri people do get away with most of the dirty stuffs they throw at us. "One Template" has not done anything bad here. He has only been responding to them in the language they best understand.

onyeomacynkembu:
This is what she said you guys should stop your obsession with ndi igbo, jealousy and hatred kills

Paperworka:


MNK speaks the truth and has opened everybody's eyes including the Hausas, forget his past, the truth is what we live on

Dreambeat:
And who told her that most Igbos would choose presidency over Biafra? It is only the politicians that want presidency, the average Igbo man wants Biafra