Chizobam Emmanuel Olise (Zobam Library)

Philosopher, Writer, Public Speaker, Author of the books - The Lost & The Light

... I Live, I Think, I Write ✍️

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[Chizobam Emmanuel Olise (Zobam Library) @ZobamLibrary]

Welcome to my page

I'm Chizobam Emmanuel Olise, a writer, philosopher and public speaker. I write about the human mind, suffering, purpose and life's big questions.

Author of the books - The Lost and The Light.

Here's who I am and how I can help you 🧵

[Chizobam Emmanuel Olise (Zobam Library) @ZobamLibrary]

Chapter Three of my book -The Light: A Pursuit of Peace, - The Bruise, goes back to find the original wound.

Send this to someone who says, "It was a long time ago."

Click the link on my bio to get a copy of the book.

[Chizobam Emmanuel Olise (Zobam Library) @ZobamLibrary]

Stop waiting for time to heal you.

Time has had years. Look at what it has done.

[Chizobam Emmanuel Olise (Zobam Library) @ZobamLibrary]

Time does not heal.

Attention is what restores what is broken.

[Chizobam Emmanuel Olise (Zobam Library) @ZobamLibrary]

You sat down and reduced the genocide of your people to "Rivalry between France and Britain" ?

[Nnamdi Obi @nnamdiobiii]

Most Nigerians & Biafrans thought the war was about them, not knowing that France was still pissed off that we had the effrontery to challenge them.

Let me tell you the story.

In 1960, one man ruled France’s ambitions: Charles de Gaulle. He was a towering general who refused to surrender his country to Hitler.

When France fell in 1940, he fled to London and declared on the radio that France was not finished. Years later, he returned as president, convinced that France must never again be small, never again be dependent, never again be ignored.

For de Gaulle, a nuclear bomb was the proof of greatness. And he wanted that proof in Africa’s backyard, in the Sahara.

On 27 December 1960, France detonated its third atomic bomb in the Algerian desert. Nigeria had warned them not to. The fear was simple: the harmattan wind could carry radioactive fallout south, over Nigerian land and Nigerian people.

France tested anyway.

Then something happened that Paris did not expect. A country barely three months old, independent since 1 October 1960, answered back. Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa summoned the French ambassador, handed him the letter personally, and cut diplomatic ties. The embassy was given forty eight hours to leave. French ships and planes were barred from Nigerian ports and airports. French assets were frozen.

A baby nation had just humiliated one of the world’s great powers, in public.

Now understand what Nigeria was to France. The largest country in West Africa, a giant of Anglophone Africa, sitting right in the middle of the French-speaking zone Paris treated as its private garden, the system later known as Françafrique. A Nigeria that said no to France was a bad example. If Lagos could do it, others might too.

Relations were restored around 1965. Handshakes, smiles, new ambassadors. But france kept reciepts.

In 1968, de Gaulle publicly said Biafra had a right to self-determination. Gabon and Côte d’Ivoire, France’s closest African allies, recognized the breakaway state. Arms and supplies began flowing through their airstrips, with Paris quietly behind the scenes. It was not a plan France had held from the start. It was an opportunity, and France took it.

And there was another reason that went back long before 1961: Britain.

France and Britain had been rivals in Africa since the scramble for the continent, back to the Fashoda standoff of 1898. De Gaulle never forgave London for what he saw as Britain’s habit of acting as America’s Trojan horse in Europe. He had vetoed Britain’s entry into the European common market in 1963, and he did it again in November 1967, while the Nigerian war was raging.

Now look at who stood behind Nigeria. Britain. London was Lagos’s main arms supplier and diplomatic backer, and Nigeria was the crown of Britain’s influence in Africa. A broken Nigeria meant a wounded Britain.

For Paris, helping Biafra was a way to hit its old rival and its old embarrassment in one move.

Add the oil under the Niger Delta, and a giant neighbour that had once humiliated France in public, and the picture is complete.

Nigerians saw a war. France saw a chance to settle two scores at once.

You gerrit....... if you don't gerrit.......

[Antoinette⁷🧷 is writing @AnthoniaUmoh1]

If you live in Uyo do you want to buy land or are you looking to rent a commercial glass house? Please send a dm.

My dad has a few for sale & rent and he keeps sending them to me but I don’t live there anymore 😭😭😭😭

[Antoinette⁷🧷 is writing @AnthoniaUmoh1]

Happy Sunday 🥹 Have you read the Mysterious Cat on WEBTOON? 🫣

[Chizobam Emmanuel Olise (Zobam Library) @ZobamLibrary]

@AnthoniaUmoh1 I was staring at this photo for some seconds as I posted it and I had to acknowledge how beautiful it is. You might actually have another career as a photographer 😂🙌🙏

[Chizobam Emmanuel Olise (Zobam Library) @ZobamLibrary]

@De_king7g My Chief 🙌

[Chizobam Emmanuel Olise (Zobam Library) @ZobamLibrary]

Read “A Thought Conceived Outdoors“ by Chizobam Emmanuel Olise (Zobam Library) on Medium:
https://t.co/17BCETCHsC

[Chizobam Emmanuel Olise (Zobam Library) @ZobamLibrary]

I feel guilty for not educating the adults watching her damage her life.

[Chizobam Emmanuel Olise (Zobam Library) @ZobamLibrary]

I just walked past a little girl probably 4 or 5 years old drinking a full bottle of predator energy drink all by herself while adults are sitted all around her.

[Chizobam Emmanuel Olise (Zobam Library) @ZobamLibrary]

I just walked past a little girl probably 4 or 5 years old drinking a full bottle of predator energy drink all by herself while adults are sitted all around her.

[Chizobam Emmanuel Olise (Zobam Library) @ZobamLibrary]

@AnthoniaUmoh1 Please don't laugh at me... I couldn't find the option to tag someone on substack 😆. But here is the link

https://t.co/g50Et85pwr

[Chizobam Emmanuel Olise (Zobam Library) @ZobamLibrary]

.... Rihanna on that song with Em - The monster

I want to hear more of it.... Her voice can't be contained.

If mermaids were real, they would bow to her voice.

[Chizobam Emmanuel Olise (Zobam Library) @ZobamLibrary]

@AnthoniaUmoh1 Okay Anthonia, you will get my notification by morning.