Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Femi Fani-Kayode on Achebe's thoughts...

Can you clarify, Ibrahim?

toyin

On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Ibrahim Abdullah <ibdullah@gmail.com> wrote:

You guys are really and truly shameless, I mean really shameless. Chinua wrote a book-- I doubt if there is anything new in that book--on the war and the crisis of the Nigerian state 1966-1970 and all you guys could do is defend your ethnic godfather/turf.

 

Why should Chinua's take on the crisis split the exchange between so-called yorubas ans socalled igbos?

 

This is graceful......quo vadis nigeria?????

 

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On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 10:20 PM, OLUWATOYIN ADEPOJU <toyinvincentadepoju@gmail.com> wrote:

Ikhide,

Please try and engage in serious analysis of social and historical issues rather than exercises in rhetoric.

toyin

On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Ikhide <xokigbo@yahoo.com> wrote:

Here is the great Femi Fani-kayode's sorry retort regarding Chinua Achebe's book, There Was a Country. he obviously did not read the transcript of Awo's horrid interview in which he takes credit for denying food and life to little children. You read Pablum like this from the likes of Femi Fani-Kayode and Babatope, unprincipled cheerleaders of Nigeria's ruin and you simply want to retch.

I will say this, missing in all of the "debate" is self-reflection. Nigerian intellectuals, no African intellectuals share the same trait with their friends in political power - that inability to sel-reflect on an issue and share their own contribution to the mess. How it is our country is so bad that people like Femi Fani-Kayode and Babatope can still rear their heads in public says a lot about us. We probably cannot spell C-R-E-D-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y.

I have ordered Achebe's book, not sure I will read it, because I doubt that it will tell me much more than I already know. I would be very pleasantly surprised if Achebe himself dedicates a robust chapter to self-reflection. You would have to read as many books as you can to get a sense of the complicated mess that was Biadra. There is enough blame to go around. I read and have followed Biafra since I was a little boy. Because I was caught up in that war in deeply personal ways, a child caught up in a war he did not ask for. But if children can now ask me questions about Biafra because of Achebe's book, then he has been successful beyond my wildest imagination.

Those that ruined our country are still strutting about handing us gobs of bullsh*t. In the mean time in medieval places like Aluu, youths are being slaughtered and burnt alive for allegedly stealing phones. Our real thieves are on Social Media tweeting quotes from Mahatma Gandhi. I mean, how difficult is it to say that the forced starvation of children and women was wrong?  Nigeria is not a country.

Here's Awolowo's transcript:

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/newsflash/exclusive-chief-obafemi-awolowo-on-biafra-in-his-own-words.html

And here's Femi Fani-Kayode's rant:

http://omojuwa.com/?p=13250

- Ikhide

 

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