Interactions with individuals and small groups from the diverse ethno-cultural nations in Nigeria often prove that generally the Igbo think harder (and work harder too) than the others… But nigerianly, this hardworking and hard-thinking are no longer chanelled toward better public results future-ward. Ibo youths think seriously about the future, only vast majority no longer strive to make that future. Active, they "hustle" to enjoy the present as much selfishly as possible…
Within Igbo populations, able-bodied youths employ any advantage of knowledge or weaponry they have over their sisters and brothers in exploiting or harming them…(fellow Nd'Igbo) for financial for profits…
The moral and economic character of a political entity (group) is largely a reflection of the characters of the vast majority of the constituent individuals. Physical environment et cetera matter but less than the moral worldview of the people. Anti-typicals are usually very, very few.
Ordinary Africans of today have a cause to thank the Impartial Powers of Goodness: that cruel adventurers from Europe et al are no longer interested in direct, on-the-touch enslavement. There have been complaints about, and condemnations of, the Slave Trade. These were academic. Real-world facts remain that: were the foreigners to come back now and demand for direct slaves, mighty women and men of Africa will do it again; they'll merchandise their sisters, brothers, neighbours…this time 100-fold more fiercely. Indeed, this time, Africa would be emptied into slave-dealers' ships in weeks, not years… Adventurous money-mongers from Ala-Igbo and from other dollar-sickened ethnic peoples would be at the head of this abominable enterprise.
THere is this abortion worker. He feigned stranded. One gentle man welcomed and accommodated him temporarily, not knowing he's not a stranded ethnic brother he made himself into. Given brotherly love and freedom, he got his host into serious trouble within days… Then came a deluge of hopeless consolation of: "'You're lucky to have survived' …to answer court questions..." Several of such happen monthly in the Community of West African States: Togo, Bénin, Nigeria, Ghana et cetera. Almost all the victims and their victimizers... are Biafrans. In one instance in Mambila, Gembou (between Nigeria and Cameroun), the host did not survive it. For being brotherly to a young ethnic colleague who appeared to be in need, he was slaughtered in his sleep with a table knife by the ethnic brother, for his money, 300,000 naira, in a foreign town!
Èbǜbè mmadụ adịghịzi n'ányá Igbo; O fuola. Ihe dịzi bụ èbǜbè ego…
Brave Biafrans! If they apply their courage in criminality, sai gari ya ķone… The soup of Nigeria is not emitting appetizing odour. It is not only stale, it's also poisonous. But the better-smelling soup of Biafra is not better. At least, not yet by prospects… Biafrans are so shackled with nigerianities; which are most prominently expressed in unthinking money-love and ostentatious cult-billionairism… Nothing, no law is sacred for people to avoid breaking it with effrontery; just for money. Apart from periods of anti-Igbo pogroms, is not the ordinary igbo person as unsafe with his igbo brother as with malicious anti-Igboists, even more so?
Were Biafra materially tangible, and can be sold or bought like loaf, it is not unthinkable, not even improbable, that some merchanticians of Biafran nativity would connive and sell Biafra…and become dollar-billionaires; and consider their activity as cleverness or smartness. In Nigeria and in Biafra, many women and men so uninhibitedly mortgage their future and that of their children for ostentatious bigness of the present: convoy of cars, chieftaincy titles, national honours (for disservice or silence at disservice). In Nigeria of now, robbery is a state policy, an over-riding one, even though it's not visibly encoded in their sacred-books. Immorality is a distinguishing factor of a Nigerian public office-'. Patriots are a tiny minority.
That is why, although Biafra is an imperative necessity, an imperative inevitability, it is difficult to imagine a free Biafre…as it is approaching; just as it is frightfully disquieting to conceive of a Nigeria 40 years from 2009! If men do this with green twigs, what won't they do with dried faggots? That iniquities shall over-abound is like saying that a furnace-roasted object shall get scorched...
What public officials is Biafra going to be having in a private-billionairist society? Money is good; money-worship is bad, very bad…
Freedom is much more than flag and politicking (flag-hoisting politicking). Everywhere Nigerians hoist flags. Everyday they sing '...May the labours of past heroes never be in vain'. Do these mean any thing in (their) living? Quite nothing! Even the labours of present and future heroes are already wantonly being drafted into vain-ness…
Freedom, like love, is first of all a worldview, a way of life; a way of living, somewhat independent of intellect or emotions…yet necessarily nourished by a balanced blend of all. It entails trust and interdependence…
By certain facts, few peoples (nations) are satisfactorily free in actuality. Prosperity often comes with freedom. But that is freedom, not political separation, which often is mere ceremony.
One exceptional thing is on the side of Biafra for good: just as there are many restless, highly facultative workers of lawlessness there, there are also highly facultative, self-sacrificing defenders and promoters of goodness there… These are the hopes of Biafra above Nigeria, above many other flakes and pieces into which Nigeria is setting to smash itself in the years ahead… |
Monday, November 9, 2009
But For Biafra... (2)
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