Word: ibos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evenhanded in his treatment of the two sides. But the effect of his book upon Western readers already mindful of the sufferings of Biafra is to arouse an equivalent sympathy for the plight of Federal Nigeria, faced with the secession of Biafra's hard-working and highly skilled Ibo tribesmen...
Black students and faculty are aware of Kilson's ideology, but for some reason whites have never come to grips with his position. Indeed, Prof. Kison is entitled to his opinion and his professorship in the Government department, yet so are Blackss entitled to study Ibo or AFro-Am lit, or Liberation Politics without being told they are satisfying "emotional need." Kilson is convinced that "Afro-Am" means second class. Tell me, Sir, do you also back Herrnstein's theory? Or is it that you fear falling under the Afro-American Studies department if indeed it passes review? June Cross...
...Ibo poet...
...textile mill was bombed five times during the war, and its machinery was looted, vandalized and scattered; yet its technicians managed to put it back into operation in five months. Nigerian army engineers estimated that it would take a year to rebuild the badly damaged waterworks at Nsukka; Ibo engineers did it in three weeks. The state abounds with similar tales. As the American manager of the Aba mill, a North Carolinian named W.A. Way, puts it: "Ain't no power on earth gonna hold these people back...
Back home in Biafra (now known as the East Central State of Nigeria), Ojukwu still has some admirers among the Ibo tribesmen, who tell each other, "Agaracha-a ga nata [The wanderer will return]." But they know he will not. Ojukwu, a man without a country, is also in danger of becoming an exile without a refuge...