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NIGERIA’S ROT: A Land Built on Igbo Oppression, Northern Greed, and South West Complicity NIGERIA’S ROT: A Land Built on Igbo Oppression, Northern Greed, and South West Complicity ⚠️ The hatred for the Igbos by the North was deliberate, systemic, and genocidal in strategy. Out of fear of Igbo resilience, brilliance, and inevitable economic dominance,Continue reading “NIGERIA’S ROT: A Land Built on Igbo Oppression, Northern Greed, and South West Complicity”

Names of members of General Aguiyi-Ironsi’s Supreme Military Council (1966) Names of members of General Aguiyi-Ironsi’s Supreme Military Council (1966)

Sculpting Freedom: Edmonia Lewis and Her Unbreakable ArtEdmonia Lewis, born in 1844 in Greenbush, New York, Sculpting Freedom: Edmonia Lewis and Her Unbreakable ArtEdmonia Lewis, born in 1844 in Greenbush, New York, defied the norms of her time to become one of the first internationally recognized African American sculptors. Her journey to fame was notContinue reading “Sculpting Freedom: Edmonia Lewis and Her Unbreakable ArtEdmonia Lewis, born in 1844 in Greenbush, New York,”

My thoughts;Our language loss continues to puzzle me till date. My thoughts;Our language loss continues to puzzle me till date. And to think that we continue to lose more of our language even before our very own eyes,is yet another big headache for our people. A word comes to mind tightly “ænwele/ænwene;depending on how youContinue reading “My thoughts;Our language loss continues to puzzle me till date.”

Lorenzo Dow Turner (1890 –1972) was an academic and linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner (1890 –1972) was an academic and linguist who conducted seminal research on the Gullah language of coastal South Carolina and Georgia. He earned a master’s degree from Harvard and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He taught at Howard University (1917-1928)Continue reading “Lorenzo Dow Turner (1890 –1972) was an academic and linguist”