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Today, on #PostcardsFromALAIGBO, - a thought-provoking piece by Prof. Obi Nwakanma, on the need for an IGBO Renaissance, titled:

"THE CURRENT IGBO ARE "INFERIOR IGBO."

#ALAIGBO2050
1/ "There is no single proof or evidence today that the Igbo of this generation are capable of transforming any nation to which they lay claim. I have looked; I have studied the Igbo situation, and I have listened to my Igbo kinsmen, & I think something is fundamentally wrong..."
2/ "The Igbo are trapped in a deadening hate, self-pity and nostalgia. It is the kind of nostalgia that is both defeatist and deadly because it continues to romanticize the past while the future speeds away..." -Prof. Obi Nwakanma

#ALAIGBO2050 #MindsetReset #PostcardsFromALAIGBO
3/ "The Igbo are today a beggarly nation of impotent, lachrymal people now weeping about "marginalization" and waiting for Nigeria to collapse or let them go, so that they will go and make something of themselves. This is an over-indulged generation..." - Prof. Obi Nwakanma
4/ "The last of the Igbo are old and dying; the current Igbo are "inferior Igbo." They are just waiting for Godot...Now, what I'm trying to say, people, before I lose you, is that the Igbo have left the land, and the land has left the Igbo..." - Prof. Obi Nwakanma | #ALAIGBO2050
5/ "The North or the West has never run down our schools. They did not dismantle the Government Colleges at Umuahia, Owerri, Afikpo, and the Queens School at Enugu. They did not destroy our hospitals or primary schools.." | #ALAIGBO2050 #BiafraofTheMind #PostcardsFromALAIGBO
6/ "The North or West did not say we should not build an efficient trans-regional transport metro system, by jointly developing the old Oriental lines, that would create a network of contacts all over the East and ease the strategic movement of people,...." - Prof. Obi Nwakanma
7/ "Mbakwe threatened in 1981 that if the FGN did not build an airport in Owerri, he would mobilize and build one. He did it. He threatened that if they did not build the Petrochemical plant in Izombe, he would build one by 1984..." - Prof. Obi Nwakanma | #PostcardsFromALAIGBO
8/ "By 1982, there was a marked upsurge and population shift as more Igbo began to leave Lagos & other places to return to Owerri to invest & settle. Nobody told them to return, the conditions were simply made amenable.." - Prof. Nwakanma |#PostcardsFromALAIGBO #LeadershipMatters
9/ "Now, there is a man called Onwuka Kalu. He gave the first N100, 000 as donation towards the Imo state Airport Appeals Fund in Owerri in 1981/2. There is not a single plaque to honour this man's gesture at that airport..." - Prof. Obi Nwakanma |#PostcardsFromALAIGBO #IGBOAmaka
10/ The End.. "Those who wrestle with Ala, the Earth goddess, often forget that no one has ever lifted the earth. Ala-Igbo is the earth, Anaghi Apa ala Apa! (No one can lift the earth). Period.." - Prof. Obi Nwakanma | #IGBOAmaka #MindsetReset #PostcardsFromALAIGBO @IgboProverbs_

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