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Go to the new dw. More info OK. Wrong language? Change it here DW. COM has chosen English as your language setting. COM in 30 languages. Deutsche Welle. Audiotrainer Deutschtrainer Die Bienenretter. Africa Biafra: Dreaming of a new state In Nigeria, Biafra has long been rememberd as a former independent state at the center of a bitter civil war.
The old Biafra remains a study in excellence and an insight into how to translate dreams and impossibilities into realities because the best and the brightest of Biafrans rallied to make that Biafra possible. In tragedy, because the best of the people came together to work for the common good and for the honor of Fatherland, Biafra became a success and a pride that today fifty years after, continues to elicit memorable and nostalgic feelings.
But the truth is that we cannot dwell in the past and reminisce for eternity the exploits and accomplishments of generations past. At the same time, we must never discard or treat lightly the great achievements of our fathers and mothers.
We must always stand on their shoulders and start from where they stopped. But each generation must fight their own battles and win their own victories. This generation cannot shy away from the noise of battles or shirk from the sight of blood and expect to win accolades and laudable historical memories from coming generations.
And the truth is that this generation cannot expect to win and do great things if the best and the brightest of the people continue to shy away from this task of securing freedom and a homeland for the Igbo an endangered ethnic and religious people in Nigeria. So long as the best and the most honorable of us continue to abandon this duty to the less gifted and the not so honorable characters among us, then the battle will be stretched and Igbo honor and prestige will be diminished.
In the end, if a geographical space and sovereignty are achieved, it would have become a pyric victory and the inadvertent creation of another Nigeria with a different name. Arapuru obodo ndi aru, obodo awo nke ndi aru. If we leave this task to the mediocre and the frustrated and uninformed, uncouth and undiplomatic activists and freedom fighters from among us, the ideals and lofty dreams of the new Biafra will become the playing field for the frustrated and the home of abhorrent mediocrity.
If the best among us should abandon this job to the less gifted as is, then the new Biafra would have been lost as the old Igbo society got lost when the Whiteman came and sold to the Igbo the idiocy of chieftaincy titles, igwe stools and that hollow mockery of human dignity and honor when every Igbo son and daughter began to refer to themselves as princes and princesses.
In Igbo society today, there are more chiefs than the Igbo as the greatest struggle has become who will go by the biggest sounding titles. Every Igbo person today must prefix his or her name with Dr. The other purpose which the title mongering serves is to intimidate the less privileged among us. And this is historically and literally true. Those were the people that the Europeans found useful to be able to intimidate the natives and extract from them maximum taxes and levies. It was based on this rejection that the society which we inherited is an Igbo society which had been turned on its head, standing shamefacedly in the midst of ill-gotten strange and unfamiliar ways.
Ever since, the struggle has remained the cutthroat competition to launder those filthy dubious gains where falsehood is called truth while condemning in the same breath, the old and tested traditional principles of aka idi ocha, offor, ogu and ikenga. Our values and social norms became discolored because thieves were made to rule over us while men and women of integrity scurried and sought the paths of least resistance.
Today, thieves chiefs, igwes , Drs. Literally, to complete the destruction of the people, it is this kind of warped Igbo society that got subsumed into the greater Nigerian union. But by all means and at all costs, I think that the Igbo cannot afford to take this disease of hollow mockery of our true humanity into the new Biafra.
In Nigeria excellence and best practice are not just discouraged, they are punished and sacrificed at the altar of federal character and quota system.
And we must choose to either carry the practice over or discard those insidious destroyers of greatness, excellence and bigness at the threshold of the new Biafra.
The new Biafra is an emergency but the emergency we are confronted with today is completely different from that of the old Biafra. Therefore, based on what we know today and the realities of our collective experiences the map of the new Biafra must include all the autochthonous and contiguous geography of Igbo land.
While excluding, in the interest of assuring our neighbors and cousins around us, all non-Igbo lands and territories. We must make effort to assure our neighbors that the Igbo do not covet whatever that belongs to others; nor do they desire to lord it over other people.
The Igbo rather than being driven by imperial aggrandizement of Igbo geography have always been the withdrawing types who would rather maintain and preserve their cherished republican independent democracy than seek to expand their geographical reaches and political control of others.
It is this spirit that made them to lose, sometime ago to overwhelming deluge of immigrants, most of the original lands which they held in the past. For this and for many other reasons we need to have a clear definition of the geographical map of the area we are talking about as the new Biafra.
To do this, we need to produce a physical map that is based on none flimsy dreams but practical realities of who and where constitutes the new Biafra. To achieve an authentic new Biafran map we have to bear in mind some few basic facts. First, we have to accept that by the reason of the new knowledge and experiences available to this generation, the old Biafran map is unrealistic, outdated and clearly overtaken by new realities.
It will be a bad dream for us to produce any map of the new Biafra that incorporates other ethnicities that are not Igbo speaking without qualifications. The old Biafran map included non-Igbo speaking areas because of the circumstances that produced the map in the first place. There was an Eastern Region which was created by the colonialists and it included non-Igbo speaking areas. Then there was only one governor for the entire region which happened to be Emeka Ojukwu.
When the Pogrom took place, the other ethnic peoples as well as Igbo people of the old Eastern Region were affected. Main page Welcome Community portal Village pump Help center. Upload file Recent changes Latest files Random file Contact us.
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A message with a reply address would also be greatly appreciated. It is a pity that many Biafrans have no knowledge of their history. And therefore do not know who to supportfor the strugle of biafra. It is a pity that Ojukwu failed. It is also a pity that Nnadi Kanu is no were to be found. But i promise, I will rise some day to put Biafra were it belongs.
My dreams is that one day i will be crown king of THE kingdom of Biafra, like its European counterpart. Because i have a big dream for Biafra. I want Biafra to develop as fast as possible, ulike stagnate Nigeria who calls themselves a republic, yet nothing seems to move forward.
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