Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - HOW PEOPLE LOOK FOR TROUBLE AND LATER CLAIM THEY ARE PERSECUTED : THE CASE OF ETHNOCENTRIC ACHEBE ACOLYTE OBI NWAKANMA

'It may take a hundred years, even more, one way or the other the Igbo are going to get justice for the Igbo genocide. It is Igbo memory. It is the myth of its nationness.'   "This is my warning to this mentality: Others will make sure they mobilise to fight you, even a million years from now, if you insist on forcing your own view down their throats. You refuse to challenge your leaders for letting their people die while they drew out a losing war, and you are claiming that you will get your pound of flesh from Nigeria." Assuming that it is clearly the case that the treatment metted against the Igbos amounts to genocide -what do you loose as a person or as a Nigerian that any form of justice is done to reverse this injustice?   Would you not think that thinking otherwise affects what it means to be human?   Will the fact that the Igbos in your imagination have not failed to interrogate their leaders reduce the worth and weight of such justice?   Should one wrong justify the other wrong?   I thought we are trying to be civilised modern Nigerians who should in line with the goal of modernity apply the idea of man as man as a paradigm in our thought.   Perhaps a thorough study of John Rawl's book Theory of Justice will help provide  a more informed thought on this subject.   To starve defensless children many of whom were yet to have the option to vote in favour of Nigeria or Biafra to death by whoever is evil.Whoever tolerates or supports this evil cannot be a good man.   Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi,Ph.D Senior Lecturer of Philosophy University of Abuja Nigeria       This is my warning to this mentality: Others will make sure they mobilise to fight you, even a million years from now, if you insist on forcing your own view down their throats. You refuse to challenge your leaders for letting their people die while they drew out a losing war, and you are claiming that you will get your pound of flesh from Nigeria. The other day, Chidi Opara was threatening Nigeria with violence unless this spurious  genocide theory is accepted, and I told him the score. Do you want other Nigerians to also start  an anti-Igbo campaign? Some people have not learnt their lesson. On account of this declaration from Nwakanma , I am going to make sure I reopen to the public on Facebook my warning to to Chidi on his threats of violence  and persevere in my efforts to  document Biafran war crimes  and the behavior of pro-Biafra fanatics. --- On Wed, 10/24/12, OLUWATOYIN ADEPOJU <toyinvincentadepoju@gmail.com> wrote: From: OLUWATOYIN ADEPOJU <toyinvincentadepoju@gmail.com> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - HOW PEOPLE LOOK FOR TROUBLE AND LATER CLAIM THEY ARE PERSECUTED : THE CASE OF ETHNOCENTRIC ACHEBE ACOLYTE OBI NWAKANMA To: "usaafricadialogue" <USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com> Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 6:05 PM There is a poem on the Nigerian Civil War by J.P. Clark that depicts people drumming on the drums of the human heart. This image fits well the work of those who have chosen to give flesh to Achebe's ethnocentric vision. Yesterday, Chidi Anthony Opara declared that Nigeria could face violence if she refuses to acknowledge that she committed genocide against Biafra even from the children of those who suffered this claimed genocide. He stated he saw violence as an option he could take when he considered it necessary. He argued that debate was irrelevant in the circumstances. I told him the score straightaway : A person who refuses to acknowledge the shelter given to him by his neighbour  but chooses to try burn down the very house where he is given shelter will  have himself to blame for the repercussions. Now, I read Obi Nwakanma, an ardent disciple of the self serving history offered up by Achebe promoting his own version of feeding future Igbos on this urge to hold Nigeria to ransom. Nwakanma struggled on these fora to promote an argument about Igbo being the drivers of Nigerian moderrnisation, and I destroyed   his argument, after which he withdrew  from the debate claiming the complexity of the concept of modernity. I wondered why he did not know of it before he started the journey. Now, I read him making the following comment on these fora: 'It may take a hundred years, even more, one way or the other the Igbo are going to get justice for the Igbo genocide. It is Igbo memory. It is the myth of its nationness.' This is my warning to this mentality: Others will make sure they mobilise to fight you, even a million years from now, if you insist on forcing your own view down their throats. You refuse to challenge your leaders for letting their people die while they drew out a losing war, and you are claiming that you will get your pound of flesh from Nigeria. The other day, Chidi Opara was threatening Nigeria with violence unless this spurious  genocide theory is accepted, and I told him the score. Do you want other Nigerians to also start  an anti-Igbo campaign? Some people have not learnt their lesson. On account of this declaration from Nwakanma , I am going to make sure I reopen to the public on Facebook my warning to to Chidi on his threats of violence  and persevere in my efforts to  document Biafran war crimes  and the behavior of pro-Biafra fanatics. I began this journey on encountering these fanatics. We are now informed they have chosen to feed their children with  and  define  themselves in terms of their spurious  claims that they were wronged after dragging the country into a needless war and using their own people's  starvation as a means of gaining sympathy so to   keep fighting that war. The principle of deterrent in international relations  is mutual respect  emerging from the other side realizing you are well armed and ready for belligerence. Its about time Nigerians put this  ethnocentric nonsense in its place. totyin I -- Compcros Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems "Exploring Every Corner of the Cosmos in Search of Knowledge" -- Compcros Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems "Exploring Every Corner of the Cosmos in Search of Knowledge" -- Compcros Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems "Exploring Every Corner of the Cosmos in Search of Knowledge" -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "USA-Africa Dialogue Series" moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin. 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