Tag: biafra
Our army is not listening – and more, in today’s news round-up with Cheta Nwanze
by Cheta Nwanze The thing is that the army isn’t listening. Rather, they are fighting back. On the ...
Okey Ndibe: Nigeria and Biafra’s wasted memory
by Okey Ndibe For all the cash that Nigeria has thrown to the wind, I’d suggest that the country’s greater ...
Ayokunle Odekunle: Biafra – ‘Forgotten’ but not forgotten
by Ayokunle Odekunle You wish you can wish away History? You cannot. History is not something to be avoided or ...
Biyi Bandele: Why can’t Nigerians see Half of a Yellow Sun?
by Biyi Bandele I am yet to meet a single Nigerian who has seen the film who came out of ...
Opinion: Is it not time we talked about Biafra?
by Tobe Osigwe Two incidences that occurred in recent years have made me question seriously the unity of this country. ...
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani: Nigerian tribalism – A personal love story
by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani There really isn’t much hope for my father’s generation in terms of relinquishing tribal sentiments. Our only ...
GRIPPING VIDEO: The story of the ‘Asaba Massacre’ during the Biafran War (WATCH)
by Akan Ido Chinua Achebe’s ‘There Was A Country’ recently reignited the Biafra War debate and the involvement of the ...
Opinion: MASSOB – When the blind leads the blind
by Tochukwu Ezukanma He is neither a scholar nor an intellectual; a philosopher nor a deep thinker; a sophisticate nor ...
SK Johnson on Genevieve’s ‘bad acting,’ Half Of A Yellow Sun, and the hilarity of Nigerians
by Sk Johnson Nigerians will never cease to make me laugh. I mean they haven’t failed now and I certainly ...
Ochereome Nnanna: Why we need an entirely new Constitution
by Ochereome Nnanna We are in this constitutional mess because the military bequeathed a document that is simply unviable, inchoate ...
5 things SK Johnson took away from ‘Half Of A Yellow Sun’ trailer (WATCH)
by SK Johnson The trailer for the Biyi Bandele directed (and written) film adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel, Half ...
Elnathan John lets go on Chimamanda: “The consequences of loving Ngozi”
by Elnathan John When Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, darling of the world, chooses to, well, refer to Caine Prize nominee Elnathan ...
Hounge: Nigeria – The looming war scenario (Y! Superblogger)
Let’s not be bad students of history, we are yet to fully recover from the effects of Biafra war. The ...
The un-tribute: Achebe was an Igbophile, not the father of African literature
by Ibrahim Bello-Kano Indeed, we cannot help wondering if the recent insensate massacre of Chinua’s people in Kano, only ...
Opinion: Obafemi Awolowo – Hero of the Yorubas, killer of Biafra, betrayed by the North
by Obinna Akukwe Thus Awolowo’s advice and actions led to the quick end to the Biafran dream. Therefore it is ...
America’s secret files: The untold Biafran story
Forty three years after the Civil War, the Americans have released their dossiers—21,000 pages of diplomatic dispatches by agents of ...
Okay, then: “A Biafran president will emerge on February 20” – Founder, Biafra Zionist Movement
by Akan Ido Ben Onwuka was an unknown name until November 5, 2012, when his group, the Biafra Zionist Movement ...
Olusegun Adeniyi: Memories of Biafran nightmares
by Olusegun Adeniyi Iloh and most members of his generation do not believe Yorubas did anything against them in the ...
The ‘failure’ of #OccupyNigeria, and where we can go from here (#NewLeadership Series by Chude Jideonwo)
by Chude Jideonwo I am very proud of what Nigerians achieved this time last year, when we came together to ...
I had never written a book review, until I read ‘There Was A Country’
by C. Nwaonu Maybe we can grudgingly learn to love the other members of the harem or file for ...
Report: The secret life of Chukwuemeka Ojukwu’s love-child, Tenny Hamman
by Isi Esene Nigerian Civil War rebel leader, Chukwuemeka Ojukwu recently shocked many even in death when it was revealed ...
Fisayomi Eko-Davies: Adulthood [The sojourner] (Y! Superblogger)
I am a sojourner in someone else’s home, my innocence departed with age and I have been forced into the ...
Adewale Sogunro reviews Chinua Achebe’s ‘There was a country’
by Adewale Sogunro I was hoping that he would look beyond the ethnic divisions, while rendering language to heal the ...
Odumegwu Ojukwu – The man who saw tomorrow
by Joe Okei-Odumakin While it would have been more gracious to address the issues at stake without the festival of ...
Achebe’s book is propaganda, I did not starve Igbos to death – Gowon keeps talking
by Isi Esene Nigeria’s war-time military president, Yakubu Gowon, has been unequivocal in his reaction to the book titled, ‘There ...
Tunde Fagbenle: Achebe may be correct, but he defied logic
by Tunde Fagbenle It is doubtful if the great novelist of our time, Prof. Chinua Achebe, expected his latest book, ...
“The war is still very personal”: Uzodinma Iweala (also) reviews Achebe’s book
by Uzodinma Iweala I met Chinua Achebe for the first time when I was in high school, but I knew ...
Saro-Wiwa reviews Achebe’s “There was a Country”
by Noo Saro-Wiwa But many Nigerians resented it, and Achebe admits that the Igbo could be cocky, brash and materialistic, ...
Firestorm: Yoruba leaders blast Achebe for “attacking” Awolowo
by Stanley Azuakola It was bound to happen. You don’t speak ill of one of the greatest Yorubas of all ...
Chimamanda reviews Achebe’s new book: “The reader is left with a nagging dissatisfaction”
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Nigeria, at independence from British rule in 1960, was called the Giant of Africa. With ...
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