RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Femi Fani-Kayode: Lagos, the Igbo and the servants of truth

You take a buffoon to Cambridge, he becomes a Cambridge-trained buffoon like Femi Fani-Kayode. You can't mend folk like that. But there's hope Ikhide; the hope is that these paper tigers will exhaust themselves, and the real business of nation-building will commence. Despair, such as the like of you express, is another form of extremism! When you declare "there's no hope!" with such absolute certainty, you fall into the same pit as Femi Fani-Kayode, or even the nitwit IBK, who still thinks of Lagos as some kind "village." Femi Fani-Kayode absolutely does not know the history of Lagos. For starters, we should get him a copy of MJC Echeruo's Victorian Lagos, and then, we'll get him a copy of Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities. If he's able to understand these, then we'll begin to offer him re-education, because apparently, Kings College, Lagos, and Cambridge, taught him pretty little.
Obi Nwakanma

 

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Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 15:10:34 +0300
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Femi Fani-Kayode: Lagos, the Igbo and the servants of truth
From: ibk2005@gmail.com
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com

Ikhide,
If anyone invaded your village and called it "No man's land" you would write worse!
Cheers.
IBK

On Aug 5, 2013 4:56 AM, "Ikhide" <xokigbo@yahoo.com> wrote:

"The igbo had little to do with the extraordinary development of Lagos between 1880 right up until today. That is a fact. Other than Ajegunle, Computer Town, Alaba and buying up numerous market stalls in Isale Eko where is their input? Meanwhile the yoruba of the old Western Region and Lagos were very gracious to them and not only allowed them to return after the civil war to claim their properties and jobs but also welcomed them with open arms and allowed them to flourish in our land. This is something that they have never done for our people in the east. Such gestures of love and fraternity were never reciprocated. Now some of them have the effrontery to call Lagos which is our land and the land of our forefathers (I am half Lagosian) "no-man's land" and others have the nerve to assert that up to 50 per cent of the development in Lagos came as a consequence of the input of the igbo. This is utter rubbish."

- Femi Fani-Kayode

And to think this sick buffoon was once a Minister in Nigeria. There is no hope folks, absolutely none.

Read more of his sick rant. Here...

- Ikhide

 

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