National Issues
Biafra, Nigerian Civil War, Travel & Igbo’s Flashpoint -By Nneka Okumazie
It is difficult to find many other black ethnicities as vast as the Igbos in travel. The collective exposure, experience and skill for navigation would have made Ndigbo the most powerful of all blacks anywhere in the world, and made them a leader to liberate from oppression against any blacks anywhere – near or not.
Throughout history, one of the major tools for conquest for some of the great known kingdoms, empires, and civilizations is exploration. Some of their people – sometimes – go everywhere.
Traveling back or sending messages, they report progress, mistakes, knowledge, skills, strengths, vulnerabilities, etc.
They use this knowledge to prepare for whatever their objectives are, internally or externally. They also ensure they become formidable enough, building and getting strong for years, prepared for any enemy.
Some great battle kingdoms – several years ago, were on some island, or isolated, but they mustered effort, that even if they didn’t conquer, they were feared, respected or sought for alliance.
In the entire black race, Ndigbo is the leading ethnicity of adventure into the unknown, regardless of how precarious.
It is difficult to find many other black ethnicities as vast as the Igbos in travel. The collective exposure, experience, and skill for navigation would have made Ndigbo the most powerful of all blacks anywhere in the world, and made them a leader to liberate from oppression against any blacks anywhere – near or not.
It seems, however, that there isn’t a funnel for combined Igbo prosperity, or the reasons for exploration aren’t for mutual development, or maybe primary goals as soon as achieved, secondary goals can lay.
For the Igbos, seeing themselves in Nigeria, in Africa and as part of the black race can be underpinned to build a vision for development and how to pursue support.
The foundation of what is wanted can be developed from what is possessed.
The State Universities can have migration centers for large datasets of knowledge management for indigenes that travel back, detailing what they saw elsewhere.
Staff would collect all information, but their students and faculty would to segment the data.
The Universities can also develop models for the states, in partnership with some leading business people, new trade channels, especially with countries that are friendly to the people.
If the states really want to develop – they must avoid corruption. They have to nurture plan, strategy, vision not money first, or that when money comes everything else is jettisoned.
The University must also develop a plan for education of the people, not just formal, but anywhere.
What Ndigbo currently have can be utilized exceptionally rather than seek something else to come into an existing weak structure.
The lengthy cruelty towards Ndigbo in the Nigerian civil war was often unnecessarily grim. It is unfair for anyone to just make light of it, though looking forward is important.
Now, certain motives, malice, propaganda and conspiracy theories are not what an Igbo individual – at a corner of the world, going through great labor, just for some tough income – needs.
It may be satisfactory to the mind to blame a country or hate multiple administrations, but much of Africa isn’t much different from the situation in Nigeria.
Leaders in their own community are corrupt to their own people. Governments in their power will seek tribal leaders, compromise them, and leave the people to dry. Selflessness that says for the good of this community, or country, or place, to benefit everyone that belongs there is rare across Africa.
So it would be really unfair to think the sociology of Africa does not affect the people or countries, or that one community changing alliance will erase existing complexities.
People with odd agenda must have or find an enemy, even if one just got scrapped or found not to exist.
There is also a chance that everyone maybe wrong and the truth about the situation, or a satisfactory path will be clear in few decades.
Looking broadly, for those who are true Christian Igbos, they understand that this world will never be perfect, no matter the solution, development or advancement of any admired science, country or technology, there are so many problems beyond all.
Genuine Christian Ndigbo’s know that JESUS Christ belongs to everyone who accepts.
The citizenship of the Kingdom of GOD ruled by Jehovah is their perfection. They look forward to the new Heaven and new Earth. [Jonah 4:4, Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?]
