Joseph Nnodim

Physician, Scientist, & Author: “Toward Understanding the Nigeria-Biafra war & Lingering Questions”

[Joseph Nnodim @j_nnodim]

@solomongogo @nwoko_greg62705 Mandela formed the uMkhonto. The regret is that our young people have sung about & celebrated people like Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko, yet hardly know a thing about Chukwuma Ugokwe, Raji Abdallah, Osita Agunwa, Kola Balogun, Nduka Eze, Abiodun Aloba, Mike Ajuluchukwu et al.

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@solomongogo @nwoko_greg62705 if there had been a unified independence movement under his leadership at the time - like the ANC under Albert Luthuli. Chief Luthuli was awarded the prize in 1961 I believe. Like Zikists, one would say, the South African youth were not impressed. A few months later, Nelson

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@solomongogo @nwoko_greg62705 Dr. Azikiwe should have been awarded the Nobel Peace prize

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@nwoko_greg62705 in town. There were other political parties with narrow ethnoregional agendas who, at best, only partly shared his grand and lofty vision. The colonial master knew this all too well and loved it. Two months after the attack on Sir Foot, the Zikist Movt. was proscribed. I believe

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@solomongogo @nwoko_greg62705 movement after him and his philosophy. Sadly, the love was unrequited. Dr. Azikiwe was very averse to physical violence and believed independence could be arrived at just by writing and orating. He was leading a nationalist movement but unfortunately, that was not the only game

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@solomongogo @nwoko_greg62705 Indeed that was the role they sought to play, consistent with the customary duality of nationalist movements - a political wing to do the “jaw-jaw” and a militant wing to do the “you know what” if and when necessary. They were intensely enamored of Dr. Azikiwe, naming their

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@RiseAgainstEvil A tongue-in-cheek ode to apartheid obviously. It so happens that human society has now gotten past the stage at which a small minority in a polity can, on the basis of skin color, arrogate exclusively to itself power and privileges. That’s gone and never coming back.

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@employlawone @nwoko_greg62705 Actually, as Lt. Col., he was entitled to one row of “scrambled eggs” on the free margin of the visor of his peak cap.

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@HeartWithThanks @nwoko_greg62705 themselves as viceroys with their snouts perpetually in the public trough. And no, it would be most unfair to describe Gen. Aguiyi-Ironsi as hapless and confused. I would say he was a Child of Fate.

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@HeartWithThanks @nwoko_greg62705 29, 1966 mutiny. Gen. B. Ogundipe told Lt. Col. H. Njoku as much. Under Gen. Aguiyi-Ironsi, a governorship would have been far from a “reward”, given the challenges of the office and parlous state of the country at the time. It was after him that governors began to see

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@HeartWithThanks @nwoko_greg62705 I beg to disagree. Those appointments are better considered to be military postings or deployments. None of the governors was the most senior military officer from their respective “Group of Provinces”. There was actually a plan to rotate them out but it was preempted by the July

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@rirokpik More data needed! Indeed, she also had her hands out and cupped - which might have “confused” the priest. Would however like to see if there were other communicants who presented similarly and how he served them. The tradition of the parish is also relevant - whether or not

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@Vitus_osst Whatever it was just did not produce a good visual outcome.

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@Vitus_osst Fr. Virus, I’m afraid your explanation does not cut it. The optics were just not good from a racial standpoint, even though Santita has Black-Creole antecedents out of Haiti on his mother’s side. Only he knows what happened. Racism? Certainly not.

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@JimBobW49 Just being clever, as usual. Note she said ALL the homeless people. She was not envisioning a solution for just the homeless person hanging out by the grocery store.

[Joseph Nnodim @j_nnodim]

@im_Kolins Ah yes! It was VERY BAD. Certainly the worst human carnage on the African continent since record-keeping began. “Toward Understanding the Nigeria-Biafra War and Lingering Questions” (Page Publishing) is a useful reference.

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The British, French and Dutch did not create any nations. Countries or states, yes - but not nations. A nation is organized around a principle that is shared by all of its constituents and is cherished as well as edifying. It is very very unlikely that a superior external force can impose it.

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@Chude_ND1 Perhaps even more interesting is that your royal progenitor’s original name was Mbanaso Ozurumba. He was born in Umuduru, Amaigbo. Your language and other aspects of your culture are therefore no surprise. Ya gazhie.

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@Nedumcity_ who literally put their very lives on the line to help must forever be kept alive. For those who have access (and the time to read), “Toward Understanding the Nigeria-Biafra War” (Page Publishing) provides more context. Thanks again.

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@Nedumcity_ Thank you so very much, Mr. Nedu Ani, for this post. For me, the orchestrated gruesome loss of all those innocent lives that had hardly begun (at least one million by all accounts) remains an intense personal peeve. The memory of them and those paragons of piety