Waffling Ohanaeze And The Igbo Aspiration

 By Ugo Onuoha

In light of the challenges facing the Igbo today in Nigeria, the last thing that the beleaguered people should have to contend with is a fractionalised socio- political umbrella body. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what Ohanaeze Ndigbo has been grappling with for some years. And it seems the situation is deteriorating rather rapidly. 

*Iwuanyanwu 

The Igbo who are the only large, in terms of population, group of people who are indigenous to Nigeria [a fuller exposition on this another day] have been facing existential threats. The threats to emasculate and possibly annihilate the Igbo have been on for the better part of a century. And evidence abounds.

Nigeria: The Fiction Of Three Founding Fathers

 By Obi Nwkanma

 Dr. Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe was the leader of the African nationalist resis­tance to colonialism from 1937 to 1957. He spearheaded it. He theorized it. He catalyzed it.

*Dr. Azikiwe 

In spite of the puny attempts by char­acters whom Azikiwe himself would have dubbed “Lilliputians” to revise the history of African nationalism in the 20th century, and diminish Azikiwe’s work, the great Zik continues to glow be­cause he is preserved in the documents of the 20th century.