Tag Archives: Igbo
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 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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Last year, I attended a conference that brought together African thought leaders. In a session about African identity, we explored the question of whether one could claim to be African without being fluent in any African languages. A passionate, and near disruptive … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Op-ed, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Agbor, British Empire, CHINUA ACHEBE, Colonialism, English language, Igbo, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, United States
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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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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 Odimegwu Onwumere When a former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu offered on November 12, 2012, to negotiate the end of insurgency in the northern part of the country on Federal Government’s (FG) behalf, many Nigerians took … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Boko Haram, Goodluck Jonathan, Igbo, IndepthAfrica, Kaduna, Kano, Nigeria, Northern Nigeria, Orji Uzor Kalu
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The novelist and political dissident captured the soul of a continent — and helped me discover my own history By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Chinua Achebe has died at 82. To commemorate his passing, we have republished Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie’s essay … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Achebe, CHINUA ACHEBE, Igbo, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Joseph Conrad, Nigeria, Okonkwo, Things Fall Apart
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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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It is obvious that all is not well within the fold of the South East Governors Forum over the issue of Igbo presidency project 2015. In Anambra State,Governor Peter Obi is at loggerheads with Governor Rochas Okorocha over who controls … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Nigeria, Obinna Akukwe, West Africa
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Tagged Ebonyi State, Igbo, IndepthAfrica, Jonathan, Nigeria, Nigerian, nigerian newspapers, Obinna Akukwe, Okwesilieze Nwodo, Peter Obi, Rochas Okorocha, Theodore Orji
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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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Ohaneze Crisis and the Auctioning of the Igbo Presidency (part 2) Ohaneze Ndigbo , the apex Igbo socio political organisation has been on the news again especially over the controversial new four year tenure for elected officers and controversial election … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Nigeria, Obinna Akukwe, West Africa
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Tagged Abakaliki, Abia State, Delta State, Ebonyi State, GoodluckJonathan, Igbo, Imo State, Nigeria, Theodore Orji
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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 »
A tribeswoman wears traditional clothes during preparations for the independence day ceremony, scheduled for July 9, in Juba July 1, 2011. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic By Alex Whiting LONDON (TrustLaw) – From elderly ladies terrifying enemy fighters to Igbo women “sitting on” … 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 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 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 »
by Eze Tochukwu It all started like a joke. At the High Court of Abia state in Aba Judicial division, holden at Aba. I had gone there to watch Court proceedings. At 9.05am dot the Registrar of the Court shouted – … read more »
Posted in Article, News, Nigeria, West Africa
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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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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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By General Dr. Yakubu Gowon Hereunder is the tribute of Yakubu Gowon as published on pages 02-04 of Book of Tributes, a reflection of life and times of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu -Ojukwu, issued at Ikemba’s burial in Nnewi: TRIBUTE TO … read more »
Posted in Article, News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Africa news, African, African news, C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Emeka, Igbo, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Nigeria, Indepth Soccer, London, Nigeria, Ojukwu, Yakubu Gowon
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The tragedy of Africa’s unlearned lessons Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe The perpetrators, of what were unquestionably crimes against humanity appear to have got off free. The consequences of the Igbo genocide for Africa have been catastrophic. In 1966, soon after the world … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Benjamin Adekunle, Biafra, Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, Igbo people, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo
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By Benjamin Obiajulu Aduba Nigeria needs real men and women now. Nigeria needs real leaders immediately. I do not mean politicians alone and certainly not just Jonathan. In fact not Jonathan really. Not at all. I mean ordinary Nigerians who … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Boko Haram, Goodluck Jonathan, Hausa, Igbo, Igbo people, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Jonathan, Nigeria, Wole Soyinka
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By Abena Ampofoa Asare Unlike the Biafra experience, indigenous peoples confronting land dispossession are looking beyond the nation-state for justice. Forty-five years after the self-proclaimed independence of the Republic of Biafra, Odumegwu Ojukwu, the spokesman and architect of the Land … read more »
Posted in Article, Pan African News
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Tagged Biafra, C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, CHINUA ACHEBE, Igbo, Igbo people, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mali, Nigeria
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By Paul Okechukwu Oranika The Ojukwu Memorial celebrations, in Atlanta GA, Jan 28th 2012, is a remarkable story of the coming together of the entire Igbo Communities in Georgia and beyond to pay tribute to an illustrious Igbo son, a … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Atlanta, Biafra, Biafran, C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, Igbo, Igbo people, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, Oranika
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