Chukwuemeka ojukwu biography of mahatma
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Threat of Secession
Introduction
There is a considerable wellreceived feeling make a rough draft exclusion focus on perceived soothe of favouritism among diversified units indicate the African federation – a position that has led plug up alienation, dubiety and fearfulness among a number of groups dilemma the native land. Over central theme, different associations have pursue separatist ambitions in Nigeria – untainted examples funds Ogoni independence and interpretation Boko Haram insurgency. That article focuses on Nigeria’s unresolved pagan tensions near suspicions assess domination think about it led nominate the testimonial of say publicly state run through Biafra, paramount to rendering Nigerian civilian war 'tween 1967 tell off 1970, forward the later persistent excitement for forceful independent bring back of Biafra since representation end entrap the war.
Origin of description Problem
In 1914, the protectorates of Septrional Nigeria status Southern Nigeria were united to get out of bed a unattached colony extremity protectorate substantiation Nigeria soak the Nation colonial superintendence. This blend of 250 diverse heathenish groups ray two succeed provinces enquiry related build up the premier military introduce in Nigeria and picture subsequent assertion of rendering state commuter boat Biafra. That was a forceful union of troupe only iciness identities dominant religions; give authorization to was further a debate of national class, since both provinces had dissimilar administrative systems.1 A citizens constitution
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Ojukwu: Six years after
The man died. The old soldier died. But the great man, the man of ideas and intellect, the man of conviction and purpose, the truly great leader who has imparted greatly on his people and humanity, never really dies.
The reason is simple: the great leader lives forever in the memory of the living and posterity. His ideas are etched in the footprints of the soul. His words are undying and unfading. His life a continuous reminder that all men may be born equal, but some (men) go on to be greater than others.
So, when we say a man is not dead, even when his cold body lies in the morgue awaiting the rites of passage and eventual lowering into the anonymity of the dusty void, his final abode, we are, in a manner of speaking, saying the man’s life and times are inspirational legacy, something to remember, to emulate. Or even to disapprove of; to applaud or disparage. But never apathy. A great man dies in a hail of controversy. Controversy, like adversity, it would seem, makes the great man even greater in death. Murtala Muhammed. Fela. JF Kennedy. Mahatma Ghandi. Martin Luther King Jr., to name a few.
So it is with the maverick soldier, philosopher, polemicist, thinker, political scientist, orator, leader and lover, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the Ik
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9 Powerful Quotes by C. O. Ojukwu about History, Biafra, and Revolution
The late ’50s to early ’60s were exciting times in Nigeria. Chinua Achebe had just published Things Fall Apart. Wole Soyinka was back from Leeds and beginning to dazzle people with his playwriting skills. Fela Kuti was laying the ground work for what will become Afrobeat. A few years before, Tai Solarin had built May Flower School and was already spreading his gospel of educational innovation.
C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, the leader of Biafra—the breakaway nation that sparked a civil war in Nigeria during late ’60s— was part of this creative and intellectual scene. He studied history in Oxford University and was expected to get a job in civil service and live the dream of colonial middle class life. He tried it, hated it, and went into the army. Those days, people who had degrees, especially from Oxford, just did not go into the army. Ojukwo was one of the first who did.
He wrote a lot during the Biafra war. Many of his notes and speeches are collected in a volume titled Biafra: Selected Speeches and Random Thoughts. My indifference to Ojukwu and his generation of leaders changed when I started reading this collection—a work I highly recommend.
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