Igbo Renaissance

I think it's time we set up a formal Igbo intelligentsia organization where we can deliberate on our issues and dissect our history and politics critically. This book is invaluable in the Biafran story because it showcases the war from a legal standpoint amongst other viewpoints.

Isi Igbo doesn't know that isu are in enugu and virtually every state because they're the biggest clan and the foremost Igbo clan. SMH. You guys need reorientation after the banishment because you really don't know much.

@S1Saint @AdaNore44 A multi-ethnic society with a dominant ethnic group and assimilation is headed towards homogeneity, fact. Meeting this society halfway there should not count as a true multi-ethnic society because of where its headed. Assimilation whether half or full, negates a distinction.

@im21035 @AdaNore44 Again you’re laundering definitions that don’t agree w/what historically occurred Idk what you mean by “true multi-ethnic” And I never disagreed about assimilation i just claimed that all assimilation is not created equal

You guys act like multiethnic states did not exist in Africa before colonization

@big_motiv8 @Senzovideo dem no get the mind ignore them

@Senzovideo Useful eediot Na only online una dey do this your nonsense Then no born you well to carry am go outside

😂😂😂Nobody stupid pass ibo people wey no dey go their village. January to December, you're in portharcourt yet you're crying about Ikwerre people. Your village people dey Work overtime

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On Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, President Tinubu should not dishonor the United Nations as Buhari did By ALOY EJIMAKOR In July 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Council (through a landmark Opinion issued by its Working Group) directed the Buhari-led Government of Nigeria to free Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and accord him a pathway to compensation for his infamous extraordinary rendition from Kenya to Nigeria in June 2021. The 17-page Opinion, in its Disposition (or conclusion) states that: “The Working Group considers that, taking into account all the circumstances of the case, the appropriate remedy would be for the Government of Nigeria to release Mr. Kanu immediately and accord him an enforceable right to compensation and other reparations, in accordance with international law.” As a background, the Working Group of the United Nations Human Rights Council is a quasi-judicial body that has the legal mandate of the United Nations to receive and adjudicate human rights petitions against member nations of the UN. Accordingly, its Decisions (diplomatically called Opinions) are legally binding on all member nations of the United Nations, including Nigeria. In addition to Nigeria being a bonafide member of the United Nations, this very UN decision on Mazi Kanu is primarily predicated on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, by which Nigeria is legally bound by virtue of its ratification by an Act of the National Assembly under Section 12 of the Nigerian Constitution. To be sure, ratification is a means by which a nation makes itself subject to international laws and treaties. And by the provisions of Section 12 of the Nigerian Constitution and a plethora of decisions by the Supreme Court of Nigeria and international tribunals with jurisdiction, ratification makes every ratifying nation (including Nigeria) subject to whatever it ratified. This is non-arguable and inviolable. It goes without saying therefore that, as a bonafide member of the United Nations and a treaty-bound nation, Nigeria is subject to decisions issuing from the United Nations. Thus, Nigeria is duty-bound to implement this decision in its black letters and spirit. And it was expected to do so promptly. The advance copy of the Opinion which was issued on 20th July, 2022 was released to me on 23rd July, 2022. The cover letter bearing the Opinion indicated that the Working Group forwarded the Opinion to the Government of Nigeria a day earlier on 22nd July, 2022; yet former President Buhari failed to comply until he left office. Nonetheless, it is never too late to act, even as Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has, for three and half years, endured the horrendous rigors of a detention that is bereft of any legal justification. Therefore, unlike a misguided Buhari, a wiser President Tinubu can do the right thing by freeing Mazi Nnamdi Kanu without further ado. He does not need any court order to do so because the matter has transformed from the legal or judicial to the political. And as the saying goes, the buck stops at the President’s table.

Chukwu okike or Chineke is the creative force and so Ekwensu being destructive is the ideological polar opposite and being a pantheon in the gods created by chukwu okike it fits as the western devil. The only difference is that ours has to be invoked while theirs is ever present.

@S1Saint @AdaNore44 The similarities is the result of Roman assimilation, even the Vikings that invaded Rome adopted their culture and language. If not the Roman polities would be very Germanic now.

@im21035 @AdaNore44 Lastly, the similarities you’re observing in present-day West has more to do with Western imperialism than the immediacy of their similarities or lack thereof after the fall of Rome

@JavaKairo but we chose to keep quiet them still dey disturb us

@im21035 They harbor the most notorious ritualist and criminal

if you remind them of the bad name they have brought to ala Igbo they'll start stammering but insist every eke market day that they're our head. na by force? Ndi comedians.

@Onyeka_Marco With their small land ooh 😂😂

These people are the problem of Ndi Igbo!

Enugu is our capital, we had a consensus and agreed to it, that's why. Only you and your crew agreed to call or regard Anambra as isi Igbo, that's the difference.

@S1Saint @AdaNore44 French, Spanish, English, Portuguese and Italian are all Latin languages that broke apart after the fall of Rome. Their cultures are also very similar, with a similar religion and clothing styles.

@S1Saint @AdaNore44 everyone in Egypt speaks Arabic, wears their clothes, eats their food and practices their religion, that's full assimilation. Rome had city states that were vassal so there wasn't much need to fully assimilate but all Latin cultures are very similar because they almost did fully

@S1Saint @AdaNore44 Take the Arab conquest of Egypt for example, it doesn't look like a multi-ethnic nation anymore but at its early stages it was in every sense.

@S1Saint @AdaNore44 every multi-ethnic nation that had any form or degree of assimilation is bound to be homogenized into the ruing ethnic group, it's only a matter of time. The reason it didn't play out with any of the empires people have been mentioning here is because their time was cut short

Aba is full of raw talent.. Young boys composed themselves to appreciate our amiable Governor @alexottiofr

@S1Saint @AdaNore44 dressed kanuri and even ate the same meals. If foreigners weren't informed they would have never known the people once had separate ethnic identities.

@S1Saint @AdaNore44 if the other groups are forced to assimilate, then they have lost the distinction that makes them a separate ethnic group. Power sharing legitimacy is what would make a multi-ethnic society truly one. Kanem-bornu empire was multi-ethnic in makeup but they all spoke kanuri.