Ephraim Adinlofu

The Igbos, according to Osuji are “selfish and greedy”. These are symptoms of the cankerworm called neo-colonial capitalism and capitalist practices...

The Igbos, according to Osuji are “selfish and greedy”. These are symptoms of the cankerworm called neo-colonial capitalism and capitalist practices...

It is unfortunate that most principalities, powers and elemental forces which Jesus Christ, by his coming and subsequent death, has conquered, still dwell in the homes of the poor who live in these underdeveloped, neo-colonial capitalist economies...

What these Pentecostal churches do these days is simply to spread fear and panic in the minds of their vulnerable followers. They defend the rotten ‘social order’ in Nigeria through their acts of omission and commission which in turn helps to literally kill and dampen the probing and critical mindset of the oppressed Nigerians...

Since Prof. Nwosu released the result of the June 12, 1993, whilst launching his book, what has happened and what have we learnt from that episode and those events? What were the teachings and lessons of that unfortunate historical annulment?

An Igbo man once asked me in London whether I am a Yoruba man, that my surname looks like one. I just laughed and politely asked the man to pronounce my name. He ended up pronouncing it with all the Igbo-ness and accent which goes with it...

It is unfortunate that our crisis of identity extends to our own Igbo brothers and sisters across the Niger who are supposed to know better. Unfortunately, they regard themselves, as “the proper Igbos” while the Delta Igbos or Ika Igbos or Western Igbos are regarded derogatorily as “Hausa-Igbos”. ..

The basic universal principles embedded in democracy, as laudable as they are, are pitiably lacking in Africa. To be candid, the idea that democracy is foreign to Africa, is laughable and ludicrous. It is foreign to all countries of the world...