Why Carnegie Mellon's condemnation of a professor's viral tweet is troubling
It underscores how vulnerable public intellectuals are to controversy-driven social media pile-ons. @real_IpobDOS@EUinNigeria@USinNigeria@BBCBreaking@POTUS@mfa_russia https://t.co/256OovcQhR
NEWS: Prof Uju Anya told @NBCNews that her perception of Queen Elizabeth II monarchy was heavily shaped by Britain’s role in the suffering of her family during the #Biafra Genocide War, where her family had been displaced or Murdered.
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My sister, Uju.
Uju nwanne m, is so brilliant and passionate about her causes that sometimes her passions drive her.
This indulgence provokes a curmudgeon-like persona imbuing her poignant messages with a deleterious taint and a tendency to get lost in their acerbic carriage
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mourning incalculable losses and still rebuilding everything that was destroyed. Conversations among us today still include who was lost, who was displaced, where people ran, where bodies are buried. They do not include kind, respectful, or temperate sentiments about the people
cover, weapons, bombs, planes, military vehicles, and supplies the British government sent to kill us and protect their interests in the oil reserves on our land. My people endured a holocaust, which has shadowed our entire lives and continues to affect it, because we're still
nation of Biafra. Those slaughtered included members of my family. I was born in the immediate aftermath of this genocide, which was directly supported and facilitated by the British government then headed by the monarch Queen Elizabeth II. This support came through political
NEW: CMU Professor Dr. Uju Anya, explained to me why she wished Queen Elizabeth II excruciating pain: “I am the child and sibling of survivors of genocide. From 1967-1970, more than 3 million civilians were massacred when the Igbo people of Nigeria tried to form the independent
This is the reason why @UjuAnya was angry at the QEll, billionaire @JeffBezos. It's because of oil that Majesty's @GOVUK killed over 3 million babies and 2 million adults of Biafrans. This is from the horse's mouth 👇👇👇👇👇👇
We will never move on until we get Justice!
What is Justice? The Dismantling of all colonial contraptions created to cater for the interests of colonialism starting from Nigeria.
The only apology acceptable for the Biafran genocide is the restoration of Biafra.