Text of a lecture given during the 2009 British Red Cross African-descent History Month, British Red Cross Headquarters, Moorfields, London, England, 6 October 2009. I wish to acknowledge that the phrase, “They came before”, in the caption of this paper, is borrowed from the title of the path-breaking study, They came before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima, the distinguished African-G URL:http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2009/oct/111.html Size - 34KB - 11 Oct 2009
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Igbo survival from the genocide is arguably the most extraordinary feature for celebration in an otherwise depressing and devastating age of pestilence in Africa of the past half of a century. Few people believed that the Igbo would survive their ordeal, especially from September 1968 when 8-10,000 Igbo, mostly children and older people, died each day as the overall brutish conditi URL:http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2009/aug/241.html Size - 16KB - 25 Aug 2009
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Text of 10 lectures on Africa delivered between 13 June and 10 July 2009 at the following universities in Brazil: Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Aracaju, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro and Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo. URL:http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2009/jul/172.html Size - 74KB - 17 Jul 2009
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Thankfully, for the interest of posterity, the Igbo genocide, perpetrated by the Nigeria state, is one of the most documented crimes against humanity. Leading university and public libraries across Europe (particularly in Britain, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden and Denmark) and North America have invaluable repositories of b URL:http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2009/may/181.html Size - 15KB - 18 May 2009
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Contrary to Yar’Adua’s angst over Nigeria’s non-membership of the G-20, Nigeria actually belongs to a “G-” grouping. It is called Group-G and Yar’Adua must know that not only does his country belong to this outfit but it also heads it as its undisputed supremo presently. In this club, the “G” letter stands for the beginning of that dreadful word which Nigeria has at once operationa URL:http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2009/apr/160.html Size - 12KB - 16 Apr 2009
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Contrary to the Harold Wilson’s British government-inflected, Nigerian declaration of “no victor, no vanquished” on 12 January 1970, the Igbo were indeed the victors in this encounter. They survived. The Nigerian genocide state failed to accomplish its monstrous mission to destroy the Igbo. Igbo survival is a phenomenal triumph of human will and tenacity. URL:http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2009/feb/191.html Size - 14KB - 19 Feb 2009
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Paper presented at the Conference on Things Fall Apart at 50, School of Advanced Study, Institute of English Studies, University of London, Friday 10 October 2008 URL:http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2008/oct/141.html Size - 25KB - 14 Oct 2008
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MASSOB called on Igbo people to shut down Nigeria’s monstrous occupation of Igboland. Thanks to MASSOB’s month-long exhortation, Igbo people across their great land embarked on a crucial phase of the liberatory journey of defiance of the occupation and a resolute commitment to free themselves thereof. URL:http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2008/sep/153.html Size - 18KB - 15 Sep 2008
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The irony of the awkward bind in which Britain currently finds itself in the Zimbabwe saga is fascinating. Britain is absolutely right that Mugabe rigged those elections. But everybody knows that. The 53 African “leaders” at the Sharm el Sheikh summit also know that. More importantly though, they also know that, like Mugabe, each and everyone of them, except, possibly, the leadersh URL:http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2008/jul/142.html Size - 23KB - 14 Jul 2008
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The question we might want to ponder is, whether there is any real difference between targeting non-citizens as we have seen in South Africa and targeting people based on their ethnic or religious differences as we have continuously witnessed in Nigeria. The events in the Southern African nation can be likened to what the Nigerian nation has repeatedly faced - ethnic and religious URL:http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2008/may/251.html Size - 17KB - 26 May 2008
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