The very last time I conversed with Brother Salimonou Kadiri (and that´s the phone call he is referring to) I was certainly not on a peace mission on behalf of myself or anybody else. The Biafra war is over and I was not on a peace mission period. On the contrary, I was full of praise and wonderment at Mr. Kadiri´s command of facts and the ever-ready details at his fingertips. It´s one thing to have some abstract humanitarian principles and to argue from that position - in the real world, it´s quite another matter to support those positions with irrefutable facts --- ( not "revisionist clap-trap"). It´s dishonest to call facts (such as what happened at Hiroshima on 6th of August revisionism (in fact quite unaware of what day it was I got married on Hiroshima Day (6th of August 1969) - and believe it or not the jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd had a concert in Freetown in the evening. About Hiroshima & Nagasaki, My Better Half translated Sadako and the thousand paper cranes into Swedish in 1983 ... it´s a book that should be read in all secondary schools , along with Tell ye your children – so that we do not go down that path again either in Europe, the USA, Japan or Nigeria.
Anti-Semitism has its own definition – sometimes the Arabs say that they are also Semites – as if that absolves anyone –including some of the self-hating Jews from being anti-Semites. I don´t know if the Igbos have yet coined a term that would cover the malignant forms of anti-Igboism (and that would include the self hating Igbos (if there are any) apart from this Dr. Ozodi, the self-hating Igbo psychiatrist who sounds like the prototype of Josef Mengele: first the Nazis demonized the Jews in pretty much the same way that Ozodi begins, in the extended piece that Brother Kadiri quoted. Ozodi must be a sick man. Just like the Serbian psychiatrist Radovan Karadzic who having described Muslims in very pathological terms, going on about their alleged "anal fixation" as people who bow in submission and are beholden, he said, to authority – he, constituting himself as that authority, laid out a justification for the genocide of Bosnian Muslims.
I´m sure that If Dr.Ozodi had said the same things about the Yoruba you would have said that he was an okuru son of a bitch. I do assume that you know all about the Nuremberg Laws
I am certainly not saying "that the Federal Government of Nigeria intentionally prolonged the civil war and are thereby" guilty of genocide by starving the Biafrans to death"
What I said was that in the last two Gaza operations Israel has had to bring matters to a decisive conclusion as quickly as possible otherwise if the war were to be an extended one then the ensuing humanitarian disaster would be compounded by food shortages and in no time at all the whole anti-Semitic world would be lined up led by Satan the accuser, foaming at the mouth at the United Nations, and accusing Israel of genocide-by-starvation of the poor Palestinians.
Whereas the federal Government was not under that kind of pressure (from a united anti-Semitic world led by Satan the accursed...
It´s up to you to decide dear Salman, why the anti-Semitic world led by the accursed Satan did not go to the UN foaming at the mouth and accusing the Federal Government of starving the poor Biafrans.
I´ll stop here for the time being. Your request "Let us rummage a bit into History. The Bible of the NAZIS, MEIN KAMPF" etc will be fulfilled a little later.
Please be patient.
On Thursday, 9 October 2014 23:16:22 UTC+2, Salimonu Kadiri wrote:
...When Cornelius Hamelberg talked to me on the phone I was not given the impression that he was on mediatory mission between me and Obi Nwakanma. However, I voluntarily expressed my regret to him that Obi and myself should dissipate so much energy to apportion blames over who did what during the Nigerian Civil War that ended forty-four years ago. After the World War II, the opposing combatants were best of friends within ten years. In order to force the Japanese to surrender, the USA dropped hydrogen bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on the 6th and 9th of August 1945 respectively. The two Japanese cities were 95% devastated and people there and the surrounding Islands are up till date suffering from Leukemia. But inspite of the fact that all Japanese in America were confined in concentration camps during the war and detonation of atomic bombs on their two cities, the Japanese and the Americans are the best of friend today economically and politically. Europe and the United States that have persecuted the Jews for many centuries facilitated the creation of a Jewish State, Israel, in 1948, just three years after the holocaust in which the climax was the gas chamber in Auschwitz and biological experiments on humans in Drachenbau. With that historical knowledge CH would remember that I have wished Obi Nwakanma and myself to sit down and compute the incomes generated by Nigeria, at least from 1970 and hitherto, and to confront Nigerian Rulers at Federal, States and Local Government levels to account for how they have expended billions of dollars that the country have earned from crude oil which according to the constitution belonged to all Nigerians. If wealth, as it obtains in other parts of the world, is a reward for industry, creativity, investment and management, there are no real wealthy people in Nigeria even though illegitimate millionaires cut across all ethnic groups.As I explained to Sali, that's why both operations in Gaza (in 2008, 2014) Israel had to conclude the matter as quickly as possible, since most of the food and other necessary supplies come from and through Israel, including fuel, and if the war were to be extended one, then the ensuring humanitarian disaster would be compounded by food shortages and in no time at all, the whole anti-Semitic world would be lined up along the Satan the accuser, foaming at the mouth at the United Nations, the Arab League, the OIC, and the EU, and accusing Israel of genocide-by-starvation of the poor Palestinians -Cornelius Hamelberg.By the above inference, is Cornelius Hamelberg telling us that the Federal Government of Nigeria intentionally prolonged the civil war and thereby guilty of genocide by starving the Biafrans to death? If the Palestinian leader in Gaza should reject supply of food and other necessary supplies, including fuel that come from and through Israel with the consequence of mass starvation to death in Gaza, should Israel be held responsible and accused of genocide-by-starvation of the poor Palestinians? In 2010, the then Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan unilaterally declared the blockade of Gaza by Israel illegal. Therefore, he arranged for a ship, Mavi Marmara, to sail direct to Gaza with what he termed humanitarian supplies to the Palestinians. When the ship entered the Israeli/Gaza coastal boundary, 31 May 2010, the Israeli boarded the ship by force and in the ensuing encounter, nine of the crews of the ship were killed while 55 were seriously wounded. The Israeli commandeered the ship and sailed it to an Israeli harbour where the cargo of the boat was inspected before it was allowed to sail further to Gaza under escort. When Turkey tabled her case before the UN Security Council, the verdict was that Israel was in a war situation and she is obliged under international law to inspect all ships sailing into Gaza so as to ensure that no weapons are smuggled to the Palestinians. That was exactly what Nigeria demanded during the war which some crayfish heads are up till date calling genocide. I think Cornelius inference is mischievous and wrongly placed.As for the idiotic self-hating Igbo psychiatrist whom he (Salimonu Kadiri) quoted I would like to say to him that it was that kind of hateful characterization of the Jewish people as a subhuman, ungodly and degenerate species that paved the way to what the Nazis intended as the "the Final Solution," that is the extermination of all the Jewish people, and this where Martin Niemoeller and his "first they came for - and then they came for the Igbos, is wholly relevant - Cornelius Hamelberg.The least I can say is that the waves of shock in me are indescribable and if I have not known Cornelius personally, I would have thought that he wrote the above cited portion of his submission under the influence of extreme consumption of alcohol. Nevertheless, I understand that Cornenius has been induced to lose his reason because of the emotional linkage of the fate of the Igbos to the "final solution" by Obi Nwakanma who inter alia had wailed thus, "The 'Diala' (meaning the Igbo citizen of the land), Salimonu writes 'are' sadists and moral destitutes, they are defined by greed, avarice, peephole exhibitionism and gradation of perversity (sic). This language is so reminiscent of another that have led to the quarantines, transporting and final solutions." While Cornelius derived his own *Final Solution* from his presumed self-hating Igbo psychiatrist whom Salimonu had quoted, Obi Nwakanma derived his own *Final Solution* from my description of Diala, the master class or the freeborn in Igbo caste system, as sadists and moral destitutes etc. I am sorry to observe that both are guilty of what in Latin is called *IGNORATIO ELENCHI* which means an ignorance of proof and which is defined as a deliberate act of evading the real issues and drawing conclusions that are irrelevant and completely at variance with the real case under consideration. It does not surprise me that Obi Nwakanma could spread his counterfeit toga of Jewish smokescreen in order to divert attention from his baseless and unfounded allegation of war crimes and genocide against Awolowo and Adekunle, but it is rather unexpected that Cornelius would fall flat for that. Ojukwu's led DIALA, the master Class or Slave owners,' exploitation of the OSU, slaves in Igboland is not comparable to many centuries of persecution of the Jews in Europe and America that reached the highest stage during World War II.What might have prompted Dr Ozodi to study the Social and Mental Traits of his Igbo people must have been his observation of cumulative clashes between the Igbo and their host communities all in the Northern part of Nigeria. It happened 16th of May 1953 in Kano, the entire North from May 28, 1966 to September 1966, Kano in 1980, Maiduguri 1982, Jimeta in 1984, Gombe in 1985, Kaduna and Kafanchan in 1991, Bauchi, Katsina and Kano 1991, Zango-Kataf in 1992, Funtua in 1993, and Kano in 1994. So, Dr Ozodi is not a self-hating Igbo as Cornelius has assumed. WAS MAJOR PATRICK CHUKWUMA NZEOGWU ALSO A SELF-HATING IGBO WHEN AT 12:30 NOON, JANUARY 15, 1966, IN A RADIO BROADCAST FROM KADUNA, SAID THAT THE AIM OF THE MAJOR'S REVOLUTION WAS TO OVERTHROW THE CORRUPT FEDERAL COALITION GOVERNMENT OF NPC/NCNC DOMINATED BY THE IGBOS?Those who characterised the Jews as you pointed out were not Jews themselves. The Merchant of Venice that you quoted was the reaction of the Jewish moneylender, *Shylock,* whom the judge denied the right to cut a pound of flesh near the heart of a debtor in lieu of failure to pay back borrowed money. The characterization of the Jew in the Merchant of Venice had nothing to do with the Holocaust and Holocaust was not about the Jews alone but also about the entire Black Race.Let us rummage a bit into History. The Bible of the NAZIS, MEIN KAMPF, was composed in two volumes and titled EINE ABRECHNUNG ( A Reckoning) published July 19, 1925, and Die NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHE BEWEGUNG (The Nazi Movement) published December 11, 1926. Hitler wrote on page 3, "One blood demands one Reich. Never will the German nation possess the moral right to engage in colonial politics until, at least, it embraces its own sons within a single state. Only when the Reich borders include the very last German, but can no longer guarantee his daily bread will the moral right to acquire foreign soil arise from the distress of our own people. Their sword will become our plough, and from the tears of war the daily bread of future generation will grow." Hitler won the German general election of 1933 to become German Chancellor and he immediately began to purify the Reich so that the evolving pure German race would see the need to conquer foreign soil for the survival of the Germans.Thenceforth, Germany became purified of the Jews. By October 30, 1936, the Prime Minister of Germany, Hermann Goering declared at a Nazi rally, "In these four years we Germans have tried to work to feed our people, although we have no colonies. Although raw materials are lacking, inspite of everything, Germany has become a land of peace... You know my dear fellow-country-men, and the Fuhrer said this at Nuremberg, that in spite of all the increased security of our food supplies, not all our food requirements can be met in Germany, whatever efforts we may make. In Germany there are 136 to the square kilometre. In England there are 137 people to the square kilometre. For these 137 people to the square kilometre England owns a third of the world as colonies, and we own -nothing! If we had a fraction of these colonies, then we should have no need to talk of a shortage of raw materials and a lack of foodstuffs. We have no colonies, because they have been stolen from us (see p. 16-17, The Nazi Conspiracy By Emile Burns)." Thereafter, in the German Reichstag (Parliament), 20 February 1938, the Chancellor, Adolf Hitler said, "Our economic position is a difficult one, not because National-Socialism is at the helm, because 140 people must leave on a square kilometre; because we are not in possession of those great, natural resources enjoyed by other people; because above all, we have a scarcity of fertile soil. If Great Britain should suddenly dissolved today and England become dependent solely on her own territory, then the people there would perhaps have more understanding of the seriousness of economic tasks which confront us.....No matter what we may achieve by increasing the German production, all these cannot remove the impossible nature of the space allotted to Germany. The claim for German colonial possessions will, therefore, be voiced from year to year with increasing vigour, the possessions which Germany did not take away from other countries .. but are indispensable for our own people (see p. 63, in Sir Norman Angell's Book: PEACE WITH THE DICTATORS?)" The German possessions which Hitler was re-claiming in violation of the Treaty of Versailles were: South-West Africa (present day Namibia) with land area of 823, 328 square kilometres; Tanganyika (now Tanzania) with land area of 943, 203 square kilometre; Cameroon with land area of 475, 500 square kilometres and Togo with land area of 56, 700 square kilometres. These countries in Africa together have a land area of 2, 298, 731 square kilometres which approximately is seven times bigger than Germany whose land area is 357, 041 square kilometres. Considering the reason adduced by Germany under Hitler for its right to seize land in Africa for colonial purpose, other countries of Europe such as Great Britain, France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal and Netherland were equally good National Socialists (NAZI) as Germany. Hitler's statement in the German Reichstag of 20 February 1938 was not different from what Cecil Rhodes and Joseph Chamberlain had stated in 1895 about the need of Britain to acquire colonies for the purpose of solving the problem of hunger and poverty in Britain.Hitler's Germany started the World War II by invading Poland on September 1, 1939 and Britain and France declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939. That war ended in the defeat of (NAZI) Germany, (fascist) Italy and Japan by the allied powers consisting of Britain, USSR and USA in 1945.The trial of German Nazis began in Nuremberg on November 20, 1945, and was presided over by four power judges from the Soviet Union, USA, Britain and France. The war tribunal completed its work on September 30, 1946, after 250 days and 403 sessions. The minutes of the trial filled 16, 00 pages. The prosecution presented 2, 630 documents and 116 witnesses were cross-examined. This unprecedented trial of racists swallowed five million sheets of paper, weighing 200 tons. A total of 27, 000 metres of sound film and 7, 000 photoplates were used. On October 1, 1946, at 14 : 50 hours, judgments were pronounced whereby 12 of the accused were sentenced to death including Martin Bormann who was tried in absentia; seven were sentenced to life imprisonment and three were acquitted. Therefore anyone equating the Nigerian Civil War to World War II and the annihilation of the Jews by the Nazis to the Igbo in Nigeria is guilty of publicly defecating in the information market and devaluing the cost of holocaust. I abhor the criminal impersonation of the Jews and their sufferings during the holocaust this ignorant internet urchins who are allergic to common sense and lessons of history.Earlier, the Buckingham Palace English speaking(or is it Oxford) Obi Nwakanma had defined DIALA as the Igbo citizen of the land but on OSU he wrote, "The man (Salimonu Kadiri) goes on to talk about "Osu" - of which he knows nothing about - and much else in this long, incoherent, and rebarbative piece of ahistoric junk." I take Obi psychobabble and grammatical diarrhea not as a sign of erudition but a symptom of headache. If I do not know anything about OSU, why can't he educate me about it? If according to him DIALA means Igbo citizens of the land what does OSU mean? Bia nwantakiria Obi Nwakanma = Come here this boy Obi Nwakanma!! While delivering a speech in the Eastern House of Assembly on March 20, 1956, and seconding the motion for the second reading of the Abolition of the OSU System bill, Dr Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe, the Premier of Eastern Region, said among other things the following, "THIS BILL SEEKS TO DO THREE THINGS: TO ABOLISH THE OSU SYSTEM AND ITS ALLIED PRACTICES INCLUDING THE ORU OR OHU SYSTEM, TO PRESCRIBE PUNISHMENT FOR THEIR CONTINUED PRACTICE, AND TO REMOVE CERTAIN DISABILITIES CAUSED BY THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE OSU AND ITS ALLIED SYSTEMS. ... CERTAIN PERSONS SUFFERED SOCIAL DISABILITIES AND WERE STIGMATIZED FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF MARRIAGE SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY WERE LABELLED AS OSU OR DESCENDANTS OF OSU, OR ORU, OR DESCENDANTS OF ORU. ...ACCORDING TO THIS BILL, THE OSU SYSTEM INCLUDES ANY SOCIAL WAY OF LIVING WHICH IMPLIES THAT ANY PERSON WHO IS DEEMED TO BE AN OSU OR ORU OR OHU IS SUBJECT TO CERTAIN PRESCRIBED SOCIAL DISABILITY AND SOCIAL STIGMA. AN OSU MAY BE A PERSON WHO IS DESCENDED OR CAN BE PROVED TO BE DESCENDED FROM A SLAVE AND THAT PERSON AND HIS DESCENDANTS ARE FOR EVER PROSCRIBED AS SOCIAL PARIAHS... MR SPEAKER, I DEMAND THE EMANCIPATION OF OUR PEOPLE FROM A SOCIAL STIGMA WHICH HAS INSTILLED IN THEM AN INFERIORITY COMPLEX.... WHAT RIGHT HAVE WE TO DESTROY THEIR PERSONALITY ON THE ALTAR OF TRADITION? A TRADITION WHICH ENSLAVES THE HUMAN SOUL AND DESTROYS HUMAN VIRTUES? A TRADITION WHICH SACRIFICES MAN'S HUMANITY TO THE PASSION OF MAN'S INHUMANITY? WHY MUST WE QUESTION THE NEED FOR A LAW OF THIS KIND...(ZIK: SELECTED SPEECHES OF DR NNAMDI AZIKIWE; P. 92-93)?" Zik's effort to outlaw Osu caste system was in vain and it is still in operation till date. I hope that the statements of Azikiwe in the Eastern House of Assembly in 1956 would not sentence him to self-hating Igbo before (In)-Justice Cornelius Hamelberg. The questions which Azikiwe asked in his plea to the Diala controlled Eastern House of Assembly in 1956 are not dissimilar to my assertion about the character of Diala as sadists and wicked enslavers. For writing that, the chameleon Obi Nwakanma simply clothe himself and fellow DIALA in pre 1945 Jewish robe and claiming that my assertion amounts to preparation for the *Final Solution* of the Nazi Germany type and the extermination of the Igbo. Perhaps, Obi is an albino which makes him to think that he is a Jew, but his problem of racial identity would be solved the day he cares to look into the mirror to discover that he is not of a Caucasian but a Negroid race. Next time you impersonate as a Jew, I will sue you for libel and fraud!!The evidence is clear in Salimonu's cultural psychology, if the "Diala" is what he thinks of them, for such declarations that led to the Igbo genocide 1966-70, aided and perpetrated by the likes of Kadiri's great heroes and exemplars - Awolowo Adekunle - Obi Nwakanma.When Ojukwu, the Diala, refused, in September 1968, to accept food supply through a land corridor from Nigeria for the starving OSU in Biafra, was that not sadism? When Ojukwu, the Diala, on the 1st of June 1969 in his Ahiara declaration revealed that his Diala gang were throwing big parties and slaughtering cows to Christen their new-born babies while the Osu were dying of starvation, was that not sadism? When Ojukwu, the Diala, collected 12 million Naira from Lagos government as accumulated income from his father's property in 1993 without sharing it with his siblings not to talk of the disabled Osu war victims, what shall we call that? When Ojukwu, the Diala, begged the Federal Government for pension and received it as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Nigerian army while the OSU soldiers that he forcibly recruited into his army were destitutes begging for alms in the streets to make a living; what do you call that? Only those who are wilfully blind and voluntarily deaf to see/read and listen/hear the truth will still be claiming that Awolowo and Adekunle perpetrated genocide between 1966-70 based on the hearsay 'of a statement credited to Awolowo,' peddled by Achebe. In the circle of literate oafs, genocide is not in action but statements. Lie is flat footed but truth is a marathoner. In the foreword to the booklet, POGROM, published by the Eastern Region government in 1966, Ojukwu claimed that more than 7,000 Igbos were killed in the North during May to September 1966 riots. At Aburi conference in January 1967 and four months after the riot had ended, Ojukwu said that 10,000 people were killed but in June 1967 Ojukwu had raised the number of deads to 30,000. In Ahiara declaration published 1st June 1969, Ojukwu claimed 50,000 were killed. The DIALA do not only image themselves as Jews, but also wish themselves to be exterminated even though no one regards them as Jews and much-less planning their extinctions. Whenever I say Oyingbo, a community in Lagos mainland, Nwakanma thinks I am saying Onye-Igbo and thereby starts shouting Igbo Kwenu at me. Whenever I respond by saying Wèrè (lunatic or fool), Nwakanma counters me by saying yes, I am from Owerri, the capital of Imo State. As long as Obi Nwakanma continues to mistakenly take Oyingbo for Onye Igbo and Wèrè for Owerri, he will always consider my long historical narratives with references as incoherent, and rebarbative piece of a-historic junk. However, I am very stubborn and I will rather slap him with the truth than kissing him with lies.S. Kadiri
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 15:14:22 -0700
From: cornelius...@gmail.com
To: usaafric...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Tribute: General Benjamin AdekunleAmended:PS .Dear Obi,This is just to report that Mr Kadiri too is very unhappy about the turn that the discussion has taken and would much prefer that you guys would occupy yourselves discussing the very urgent problems facing Nigeria, such what should be done with the natural (including human) resources with which the Almighty has so plentifully blessed Nigeria, for the benefit of all Nigerians.I should also like to correct what I said about that early Sunday morning drive in Mr LongJohn's jeep, from Buguma to Degema - that when Mr. LongJohn asked me whether I thought it was right that he the Secretary of the Youth Wing of the ruling NPN should continue feeding his Better Half, the treasurer of the NPP a rival political party, in the jeep, I was neutral, but you'll find what I told him man to man, when she was not there, HEREPeace.Corrnelius
On Monday, 6 October 2014 22:30:41 UTC+2, Cornelius Hamelberg wrote:Amen-dedOba Obi,
I have just talked to Mr. Kadiri (about half an hour ago) exhorting him to please accept the invitation to the Stockholm Igbo Yam festival this time. You were once a Biafran and you are now both Nigerians, so what is needed is peace and love, not hatred and misunderstanding, the spirit of reconciliation is much needed, no matter whatever Nigerian fighter battalion or national football team you may find yourselves.
I told him about a little episode in which my Kalabari friend a Mr. Long John (and very tall too) the chairman of the NPN Youth wing drove over in his new jeep to collect me in Buguma. In his wife a beautiful Igbo woman was waiting in the car, we drove in silence past the Kalabari National College, heading towards Degema. He finally broke the silence: Cornelius, this beautiful wife is the treasurer for the NPP. Do you think it is right that I should go on feeding her?" he asked me. I remained neutral.
As I explained to Sali , that's why in both operations in Gaza (in 2008, 2014), Israel had to conclude the matter as quickly as possible, since most of the food and other necessary supplies come from and through Israel , including fuel and if the war were to be an extended one then the ensuring humanitarian disaster would be compounded by food shortages and in no time at all the whole anti-Semitic world would be lined up along with Satan the accuser, foaming at the mouth at the United Nations, the Arab League, the OIC, and the EU, and accusing Israel of genocide-by-starvation of the poor Palestinians.
As for that idiotic self-hating Igbo psychiatrist whom he quoted I would like to say to him that it was that kind of hateful characterization of the Jewish people as a sub-human, ungodly and degenerate species that paved the way to what the Nazis intended as "The Final Solution ", that is he extermination of all of the Jewish people, and this is where Martin Niemöller and his " First they came for... and then they came for the Igbos, is wholly relevant.
"Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?" (The Merchant of Venice)
Salimonu Kadiri is a good friend and that's why he is cordially invited to my Better Half's upcoming birthday party. (She is an admirer of ZIK). Knowing Salimonu Kadiri as I do (it as I who invited him to the Forum) I should like to testify on his behalf that he may be Yoruba Cultural chauvinist (he is) - in the sense in which you are also an extreme exalter of Christopher Okigbo – which in my opinion is not a crime – certainly not a crime against humanity - and in my opinion you yourself are no mean poet.
As far as I understand it - you have to be careful about the way in which you approach Mr Kadiri even when you disagree with him – it would be better to approach him (and me too) respectfully - not to undermine either his integrity or that intelligence which can and has been measured, since no one has a monopoly on Shakespeare's bawdy. In short, respect begets respect.
And what if his opinion does not deserve respect? Then I give you permission to bomb such opinions incessantly - bomb the opinion but not the man (this Yom Kippur I learned that all my past sins have been forgiven and that means that only my pure soul remains (with some of its old , cherished opinions and positions of course – and that's what we've got to work on since religion and politics and in the case of Nigeria tribalism too, which can get people heated to an unbelievable extent – far beyond the boiling point.
I know the Igbo people, to the extent that I have lived with them for close to four years, there in Nigeria and as observant as I am, I do not recognise any of the traits that that Igbo self-hater has been babbling about which does not mean to say that here are no self-exalters among the Igbos, the Yoruba, and the enemies of Israel too ( the Israel's national football team cannot play and friendly or international matches in any of the Muslim countries in the Middle East of North Africa – or Iran ---( don't know about Turkey) since the authorities say that they cannot guarantee their safety in the field or out of the field...
So it's good that you both take some time out – on this overheated subject of the Biafra War, until you meet again, maybe on another topic....
Sincerely,
Cornelius...
On Monday, 6 October 2014 17:27:57 UTC+2, Rex Marinus wrote:"Obi Nwakanma deductions on my essay are four-one-nine inclined and his assertion that I infantilized the Igbo victim of the war is a joke that will make lucifer laugh himself to jack. I know that no crook likes to be exposed but where facts exist, it is my duty as a humanist to use them as nails driven deep into the coffins of liars. I love all human beings but I am anti-absurd behaviours perpetrated by humans to humans. It is you, in your Black skin, White Mask toga (Frantz Fanon), that is infantilizing the Igbo victims of the Nigerian Civil War. Igbos, Yorubas, Tivs, Hausa/Fulani did not go to war but Ojukwu and Gowon did as published by the Uganda Daily Times in the Spring of 1968 after its journalist had visited Nsukka which was liberated as far back as 15th July 1967. An Igbo woman told the journalist, "We woke up early in the morning and we were told that Gowon and Ojukwu were fighting. Since they are not from this town, I see no reason why they should come to our town to fight. They, instead, should go to their own towns and fight." But the victims of Ojukwu's war in Igbo caste system were inferior to Ojukwu and his cohorts. According to the culture in Igboland the society consists of two classes of human beings. They are DIALA (free born or master race) and OSU (Slaves). The OSU caste system varies in names in different parts of Igboland. It is referred to as Achi-Ebo in Nzam, in Onitsha, while in Nsukka area, it is known as Oruma. It is called Nwani or Ohua-lusi in Agwu area. OSU, UME, OHU, ORU, OHU UME, OMONI (OKPU AJA) - have the same connotation in Igboland. Those labelled as OSU and its hybrids are regarded as sub-human beings, the unclean class or slaves by DIALAS (the master class or free born). The People of Umuode in Nkanu-East Local Government Area of Enugu State, who are said to be descendants of OSU, up till date, are treated as second class Igbos. In Oruku community made up of three clans, namely, Umuode, Umuchiani and Onuogu, the people of Umuode have limited social interaction with the rest of the community because of their ascribed OSU STATUS. To be an OSU or any of its hybridised names in Igboland implies inequality of movement and choice of residence, inequality in the right of peaceful association, marriage and establishing a family. It is common to hear the Master Class, DIALA, in Igboland say, *NDI ABU NDI OSU ANYI* which means these are our slaves. The MASTER CLASS, DIALA, considers the OSUS as properties that should be owned, exploited and discarded at will. To cut a long story short, the Igbo master class, Diala led by Ojukwu in-compassionately, expended the lives of the OSU Igbos in the Nigerian Civil War. Dialas are sadists and moral destitutes; they are defined by greed, avarice, peep-hole exhibitionism and gradation of perversity."
-Salimonu Kadiri
I have excerpted this very opening statement by this writer, to highlight the depth of very self-evident feeling about the Igbo behind which the likes of Salimonu Kadiri&n
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