Tag Archives: Igbo people
Like many young men and women growing up in Nigeria, Shmuel consistently heard that the Igbo people were Jews. Yet, two centuries of Christian Colonialism prevented him and many other Igbo from exploring that connection further. When an Internet café … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, Op-ed, West Africa
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Tagged African American, Igbo, Igbo Jews, Igbo language, Igbo people, IndepthAfrica, Jews, Judaism, Nigeria
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by Obinna Akukwe The Kano State Government is bent on converting the scene of the bus station bomb blast into an Islamic school. Governor Rabiu Kwakwanso had earlier told the Igbo traders and transporters who built and developed the park … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Nigeria, Obinna Akukwe, Op-ed, West Africa
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Tagged bokoharam, Bus, Igbo people, IndepthAfrica, Kano, Kano State, Nigeria, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Sabon Gari
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By Matthew Madububa Mbanaja Report From The Office Of The Indigenous People Of Biafra On The Suit Between Biafra And The Federal Government Of Nigeria At The Federal High Court Owerri Today The 30th Of April 2013 – The courtroom … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, Op-ed, Special Reports, West Africa
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Tagged Biafra, Biafran, Igbo people, IndepthAfrica, London, Massob, Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, Nigeria, Owerri
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By Osita Ebiem Kano as an Ancient Trading City – Kano as an important commercial city in Nigeria’s Islamic North also serves as gateway to some of Nigeria’s northern neighbors. Such countries like Niger, Chad and beyond have shared with … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, Op-ed, Politics, West Africa
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Tagged Arabian Peninsula, Biafra, Biafran, Igbo people, IndepthAfrica, Islam, Kano, Nigeria, Northern Nigeria
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By Obinna Akukwe Ohaneze Ndigbo has denied blanket support for the amnesty programme, insisting that victims of Boko Haram attacks must be compensated. Reacting to the statement credited to it during its solidarity visit to Kano in the aftermath of … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Nigeria, Obinna Akukwe, Op-ed, West Africa
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Tagged Amnesty, bokoharam, Enugu, GAAICOM, Igbo, Igbo people, IndepthAfrica, Kano, Nigerian, nigerian newsppaers, Ohaneze
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by Obinna Akukwe The shameless sale of Igbo presidency and Igbo interests by Ohaneze to the highest bidder has attracted the frank opprobrium of Senator Uche Chukwuerije. In a submission he sent to the Igbo Elders,South East Governors, and members … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Nigeria, Obinna Akukwe, Op-ed, Politics, West Africa
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Tagged Anyim Pius Anyim, bokoharam, CHINUA ACHEBE, Igbo people, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, Nigerian, nigerian newspapers, Peter Obi, Theodore Orji, Uche Chukwumerije
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It is obvious to informed political strategists that the Igbos have schemed themselves out of possible presidency for 2015 for a probable paltry sum of N5billion naira (subsidy thieves stole N1.7 billion naira). Since the Ohaneze crisis started in February … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, Obinna Akukwe, Op-ed, West Africa
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Tagged Abia State, Goodluck Jonathan, Igbo, Igbo people, IndepthAfrica, Jonathan, Nigeria, Ohaneze, Peter Obi
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By Benjamin Obiajulu Aduba This is blasphemy coming from an Igbo man and one who claims to adore the late author. I must admit that I do not fully understand what National or State Burial means. My understanding is that … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, Op-ed, West Africa
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Tagged Achebe, Boston, CHINUA ACHEBE, Head of state, Igbo people, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, Nigerian, nigerian newspapers, Westminster Abbey, Wole Soyinka
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By Olusola Daniel Having spotted, on several sites, an article by one Yushau A. Shuaib in which the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is accused of facilitating controversial appointments in favour of her … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Nigeria, Olusola Daniel, Op-ed, West Africa
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Tagged Finance minister, Goodluck Jonathan, Igbo people, Indepth Africa Magazine, Lagos, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria, Nigerian
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The General Assembly of all Igbo Christian Organizations and Ministers (GAAICOM) have tasked President Goodluck Jonathan to do enough to protect Igbos in the North from Boko Haram attacks or they will mandate their members to bear arms and defend … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Nigeria, Obinna Akukwe, West Africa
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Tagged Boko Haram, Chukwuemeka Ezeife, Enugu, Goodluck Jonathan, Igbo, Igbo people, IndepthAfrica, Kano, Nigeria, President of the United States
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By Eze Eluche With the continuing systemic and targeted killings of Christians and Igbos in the northern region of Nigeria under the pretext of the Boko Haram terrorist group; With the continuing efforts of Nigerian government authorities to prevent international … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Boko Haram, Goodluck Jonathan, Igbo people, IndepthAfrica, Kano, Kano State, Monday, Nigeria, Sabon Gari
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By Odimegwu Onwumere Political debates are hitting up Nigeria for the 2015 presidential elections. The debates are divided among regions, political divides and individuals in the country. Ndigbo are the most affected in these un-organised debates. Bystanders are watching some … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Igbo, Igbo people, igbo presidency, Kalu, Ndigbo, Nigeria, Nigerian, nigerian newspapers, Orji Uzor Kalu, Sierra Leone
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By Chika Oduah, for CNN Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) — A Shabbat service is underway at the Ghihon Hebrew Research synagogue in the Jikwoyi suburb of Nigeria’s federal capital territory. Fourteen year-old Kadmiel Izungu Abor heads there with his family. They … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Abuja, Igbo, Igbo people, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica Sports, Israel, Jew, Judaism, Nigeria, Nigerian, Nigerian news, Shavei Israel
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By Olusegun Adeniyi Agu Imo has been a friend and elder brother for almost two decades now, so when he called about two weeks ago to say there is an old man he wanted me to meet, he knew I … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Adetokunbo Ademola, Biafra, CHINUA ACHEBE, Freedom of speech, Igbo, Igbo people, IndepthAfrica, International Committee of Red Cross, Lagos, Nigeria, nigeria africa, Nigeria Government, Nigeria news, Nigerian news, senegal africa, States of Nigeria, West Africa
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People in Enugu gather discreetly to sing the Biafran anthem and raise the flag In a quiet, dusty and fairly secluded corner of Enugu city, south-eastern Nigeria, a group of men unfurled a homemade flag and then sang. “Biafra will … read more »
by Okenwa R. Nwosu, M.D “Then, and more so, even now, I still believe that despite the intellectual foundations of the book, it can only serve to draw us back and to divide us further as a nation. And everything … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Babatunde Fashola, Biafra, Brown University, CHINUA ACHEBE, Igbo, Igbo people, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, Obafemi Awolowo
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by Kabiru Tsakuwa That Igbos form part and parcel of Kano community is never in doubt. And that their unquantifiable contributions in various spheres of the economy of Kano which made it what it is today, simply restates the obvious. … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged bokoharam, Igbo, Igbo people, IndepthAfrica, Kano, Kano-Igbos, Nigeria, Northern Nigeria, Sabon Gari
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Ken Saro-Wiwa Early in this long-awaited memoir of the Nigerian Civil War, Chinua Achebe, Nigeria’s most famous and respected writer, recalls a conversation between himself, his future father-in-law, T.C. Okoli, and Christie, his future bride. “In the course of the … read more »
NewsRescue- In a recent book stoking up huge controversy, ‘there was a country’, written by Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe; popular Yoruba leader, Awolowo and the Middle Belt General Gowon government as a whole, was accused of orchestrating a systematic genocide, … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Article, Nigeria
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Tagged Biafra, Biafran, C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, CHINUA ACHEBE, Igbo people, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigerian news, United States
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The Biafran flag was displayed earlier this year at Chukwuemeka Ojukwu’s funeral At least 100 people have been charged with treason in south-eastern Nigeria after a march supporting independence for Biafra, their lawyer says. Members of the Biafran Zionist Movement … read more »
by Mwongera Kioga This review is from: There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra (Kindle Edition) Chinua Achebe is a great writer, with well thought out and concise work that is well presented and easy to read. However … read more »
by Major General Alexander Madiebo Many people have been commenting on Professor Chinua Achebe’s comment on Chief Obafemi Awolowo in his book, There was a Country. What Achebe said, as I told some people, in all aspects, is correct. In fact, … read more »
By Tolu Ogunlesi Chinua Achebe’s latest book, There was a Country, has appeared fifty-four years after the author’s first novel, Things Fall Apart, today arguably the best-known novel ever written by an African. In the time between the two books, a … read more »
By Ahmed Olayinka Sule, CFA In the aftermath of the release of Chinua Achebe’s book titled There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra and his article published in the Guardian on 2 October 2012, there have been many debates about … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria
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Tagged Biafra, CHINUA ACHEBE, Igbo, Igbo people, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica African news, Nigeria, Nigerian Civil War, Obafemi Awolowo, Yakubu Gowon
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by M. Joe Omeokwe, Ph.D. I have come to love Nigeria. I was born a Nigerian, grew up a Nigerian and later became a Biafran even serving the new nation as a soldier in the 2nd Battalion of the ‘S’ … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria
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Tagged Biafra, Ibadan, Igbo people, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica africa news, Nigeria, Nigerian Civil War, Port Harcourt, yoruba, Yoruba people
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by Chinua Achebe The persecution of the Igbos didn’t end with the Biafran conflict. Until the nation faces up to this, its mediocrity will continue- Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people – mothers, children, … read more »
Kano – Gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead four traders from the mainly Christian Igbo ethnic group in northeastern Nigeria on Monday, residents said, the latest in a string of such attacks. Islamist group Boko Haram has carried out scores … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Adamawa, Adamawa State, bokoharam, Igbo, Igbo people, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Monday, Nigeria
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Osita Ebiem The problem of Nigeria is one-Nigeria. The state structure is wrong. The solution is restructuring; separation of the warring peoples, cultures and religions into independent countries. In his recent article, John Campbell writing about the Easter Day suicide … read more »
Posted in Article, News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged afria travel, Africa news, Biafra, bokoharam, East Africa, Igbo people, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, John Campbell, map africa, map of africa, news, Nigeria, South Africa, travel to africa, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, United States, United States State Department, West Africa
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Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe The continuing failure of the Nigerian state to protect the Igbo people from genocide demands new solutions to realise security and self-determination. The concept ‘failed-state’ carries an understandable melodramatic import! It refers to the inability or failure of … read more »
Posted in Article, News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged afria travel, Africa news, African news, Biafra, Congo Republic, Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, Igbo people, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, Nigeria soccer news, Sierra Leone, travel to africa
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By Osita Ebiem In recent time it has become a full-time job for some dubious and dishonest Nigerians to deny the Biafra Genocide also known as Nigeria Genocide in Biafra. Some go to the ridiculous extent of saying that it … read more »
Posted in Article, News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged africa african news, Arab League, Biafra, Biafran, God, Igbo, Igbo people, indepthafrica africa news, Nigeria, Yakubu Gowon
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