Today's Quote
Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA
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Chidi who I take seriously
Chidi Opara rides again 👍
Waffle waffle
Babble babble
Babylon!
The other day you alerted us to the fact that it was International Writers Day
So, if you haven’t already done so, please check this out and shmell the coffee:
Sometimes, you make me feel
that I’m at the wrong place
in cyberspace and at the wrong time.
Sometimes, history can be unkind.
Sometimes, I feel like motherless child
a long way from home.
And to that extent Chidi, you have succeeded.
A poet succeeds when he or she makes me feel
“Historical facts" would be mere opinions if all perspectives are not thoroughly examined with open minds, if some perspectives are treated with disdain by the recorders of history.” (According to C.A. Opara)
You sef !
That’s a very tall order, especially for historians who of course do not and cannot have access to all the “facts”. I had a glimmering of some wider dimensions to the problem, when as a lad I poured over J. Dover Wilson's
Life in Shakespeare’s England . Could also do better with some histories of Nigeria as background to understanding - in alphabetical order, Nigeria’s greatest Achebe and Soyinka…
And who, pray, are the “recorders of history” if not them and those who take the pulse of the nation? Consider : The Sierra Leone First Lady
“Historical facts" ? You mean like your great grand dada Adam - and the creation of his wife, Eve ? Fast forward, their deportation from Paradise, Cain and Abel, other key events such as Old man Noah, Sheikh Abraham (from Iraq - he crossed the Euphrates River and became someone else) the ten plagues , I thought about them last night when I read your post that “The ball is in Hamas' court': US urges militants to accept latest cease-fire plan” - half expecting your uncle Netanyahu to proclaim “ in the ancestral name of Abraham , Isaac and Jacob” or in the name of Uncle Sam and his uncle tom to threaten his neighbours with one hundred plagues, more bombs, famine, starvation and total extermination if they do not unconditionally accept a ceasefire. But then again, the cold-blooded murder of Ismail Haniyeh’s three sons and four grandchildren - discussed here in Democracy Now - is a sure indication that Netanyahu - as he has said repeatedly, is not interested in a prolonged cease fire, peace fire or peace pipe which would mean the end of his honeymoon with the corruption charges waiting on his plate and for the time being on the backburner until the conflict with Gaza is over , would receive immediate attention from the Justice Department. So, he doesn’t want the conflict to be over in his lifetime because then he would have to face the music at home( the corruption charges) and at the Hague -like Hitler - charged with being the leader of the Genocide in Gaza and other crimes against humanity. I surmise that it would be even more dangerous for him personally, should the IDF unintentionally (friendly fire) wipe out the hostages in one of their raids, but no worries , Mr. Netanyahu knows that for that sort of thing - the opposite of pikuach nefesh he would never be forgiven by those most directly affected.
“Historical facts". That was a gargantuan open playing field, after the criminal offence known as Holocaust Denial, embracing - in alphabetical order starting with -with you in mind, starting with Biafra, establishing the Gradgrindian facts facts -concerning which I did ask you this mild question which you have side- stepped so far : “Dear Chidi, honest questions deserve honest answers: In your view which day was worse :What happened in Nigeria on the 15th of January 1966 or what happened in Israel on the 7th of October ,2023?”
You too must recall the marathon back and forth (not hit and run) discussions /debates/ war of words between some of the revisionist positions of Obi Nwakanma (I almost wrote Obi-Wan Kenobi - a more fake and fictional character) between him and our Baba Kadiri about a whole range of Biafra and post-Biafra issues, of which the last bone of contention was whether or not Biafra surrendered. That subject matter eminently qualified for some of the requisite predispositions that you mention, namely, probably quoting Fela about “an open mind” where light can penetrate - these his words probably lurking in the vast subterranean cellars of your mind: “You Africans, please listen to me as Africans And you non-Africans, listen to me with open mind”
You and your profoundly-terse-controversial-telegram-witticisms, cunningly & innocuously couched under “Today’s Quote“ all of them aimed at provoking discussion, dissension, disagreement, contention, opposition, or humble acquiescence. I understand that you must sometimes be happy with yourself, for example feeling good about your today’s quote, whether it’s pedestrian, self-evident garbage or not, although Jesus has told you that “only God is good” and only God is a good poet, not the wannabe poet laureate of the Owerri Motor Park who wants to bag the noble Nobel Prize for peace & poetry, and for his other contributions to humanity and the humanities. Yes indeed Chidi, only God is good and certainly not that scoundrel, the current prime minister of his little Zionist Estate / stolen mandate, or his main enabler, who, just like Robert Mugabe( but without the Hitler moustache), doesn't want to retire, and I’m referring to the unpopular, over-ambitious octogenarian known Genocide Joe who wants to get himself re-elected. So on the one hand, probably acting on some sound advice from his former boss, President Barack Obama, he would like to rein in what Ojukwu’s man Forsyth referred to as “The Dogs of War “, the same category as your unadulterated, adulterous chimpanzees, but is afraid to do so, because he’s afraid of antagonising AIPAC and The Israel Lobby in what they ( AIPAC and the Israel Lobby) are saying is Israel’s hour of need ( more weapons and ammunition, to do what? ) and without whose support Sleepy Joe’s chances are damned and doomed, this election season.
But you’re not really concerned about such faraway plays such as J and K - Jerusalem and Kyiv - physically and geographically but perhaps not politically or spiritually, since they are so far away from your Owerri Motor Park - whereas we in Sweden have been told that we
which is about to start knock, knocking
on our door
not the knock, knock, knock of the Porter scene
and not the Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
Keep It up with the Today’s Quote, God willing, all of them will soon be published on paper or in cyberspace as the collected sayings of Sir Anthony Chidi Opara FIIM, CDOA, useful idiot, strong pro-Israel sympathiser and Honorary Knight Commander of Sayeret Matkal - belonging to which you surely can’t and won’t be tarred and feathered as shuffering from a chronic disease known as antisemitism - not good for one pursuing a poetic career, but after the publication of your collected sayings soon enough your Academia Mentions will increase exponentially, will increase a thousand fold…
Also available in English :
Airmail: The Letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Transtromer
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Chidi,
Chai !
Chide!
Sorry to both agree and disagree with you. As far as I’m concerned you are also a recorder of history, and to me, an important one at that. All your perspectives, including your poetry, your witness testimonies, your epiphanies, your quotes for today, your complaints, your running commentaries are all part of the sum total, a part of our history, so that I too can sing that Satchmo song, “They Can't Take That Away from Me”
One of my favourite history books ( if you want to call it that) is Under Western Eyes - India from Milton to Macaulay by Balachandra Rajan. It's immeasurably good reading, in delightful English…
Yesterday, I met an old friend from Eritrea, a devout Roman Catholic (perhaps, naturally so, since he’s the son of an Italian father) and believe it or not, he reminded me of you and a few Jews who I meet occasionally, and before I can even greet “ Shalom!”, they are already throwing up their hands, getting emotional and telling me, ”The Arabs want to wipe us out “.
These days, I suppose that the blanket term “ The Arabs” also includes the Persians / Iranians, the Turks, the Hausa, the Fulani, the Somali, and some ,if not all of the Muslims South of the Sahara, and of course all the sincere members of The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation - in contrast with you and my Eritrean friend, Obi’s daddy Bishop David Oyedepo and his disciples, all of whom I’m sure have the motto, “ For Israel Always “
- to protect you and defend you, whether you are right or wrong).
The Eritrean Catholic politely enquired, “ How are you ?” I told him “GAZA !” and the conversation that followed was amazing.
Tearfully, when I reminded him of the death toll in Gaza, what did he say? Did he even shed any crocodile tears? No. He scoffed at the 33, 686 slaughtered, that these were “Hamas figures”.
In the same breath I half-expected him to tell me that the 6,000,000, was also a fantasy figure that was not according to Adolf Hitler or to break down in tears about that Ahmed Deedat joke ( in one of those interminable Christianity vs Islam debates which Dee-dat - DD - Doctor of Divinity always won - his Christian interlocutor had asked him,
a variation on the theme, “ Where was God during the Holocaust?”
Deedat's response to the missionary was simple: When ALLAH heard the news, ALLAH cried. ALLAH said, “ I could not save My Only Begotten Son from being nailed on the cross, and you’re asking me about my Prophet Muhammad’s grandson being martyred at Karbala?”
After rejecting the death toll in Gaza, as “ Hamas figures”, he then more or less repeated your Chidi position, word for word: “Listening to and reading your Al Jazeera, one gets the erroneous impression that Israel just got up one day and started shooting and bombing the Palestinians.”
What are you saying ? I asked him
And then like his master’s voice - not Jesus or Pope Francis, but his Master Benjamin Netanyahu, about the likes of whom Jesus spoke, when he said - and hopefully Jesus wasn't being “anti-Semitic” when he said (John 8:44:
“You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”
The Eritrean Roman catholic goy then started regurgitating Israeli war self-justification and propganda, polluting the atmosphere with a long tirade about Hamas’ “mass rape” of various holy Israeli virgins and Jewish princesses Hamas’ “mass slaughter and decapitation of Israeli babies” - all of which propaganda that has been most credibly debunked.
Of the 613 Commandments, I should have brought 37 - 42 to his attention 👍
37. Not to love the missionary—Deuteronomy 13:9
38. Not to cease hating the missionary—Deuteronomy 13:9
39. Not to save the missionary—Deuteronomy 13:9
40. Not to say anything in his defense—Deuteronomy 13:9
41. Not to refrain from incriminating him—Deuteronomy 13:9
42. Not to prophesize in the name of idolatry—Deuteronomy 18:20
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Just a thought, yesterday, today,
tomorrow strutting down the street
like a peacock, the poetic concept
“I.Go.Before.Others” like Ben Zion
raises this kind of question
for Pa Opara; staring at you in the face
it won’t back down its gaze, like Gaza
won’t retreat or surrender, like
the conquest of the MidWest :
Mother Idoto
the still quiet voice is asking
in the darkness among the waters
what kind of funda-mental-ism
is it designed to silence ?
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The PM and his govt are war criminals
o
On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 at 09:32, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA <chidi...@gmail.com> wrote:
“It is disgraceful that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is reportedly planning to issue baseless and illegitimate arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials,” -Mike Johnson(Speaker of the US House of Representatives)
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Oluwatoyin,We should always just offer our own viewpoints in discussions, no need for pronouncements, no need being presumptuous.What are war crimes?What is the process of determining who is or who isn't a war criminal?Who determines who is a war criminal?What about countries that are not signatories to the International Criminal Court(ICC) protocol?Shouldn't you have considered all the above before pronouncing "the PM and his govt" as "war criminals"?
oThe PM and his govt are war criminals
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“It is disgraceful that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is reportedly planning to issue baseless and illegitimate arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials,” -Mike Johnson(Speaker of the US House of Representatives)
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The PM and his cabinet are war criminals bcs they are committing genocide
On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 at 18:10, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA <chidi...@gmail.com> wrote:
Oluwatoyin,We should always just offer our own viewpoints in discussions, no need for pronouncements, no need being presumptuous.What are war crimes?What is the process of determining who is or who isn't a war criminal?Who determines who is a war criminal?What about countries that are not signatories to the International Criminal Court(ICC) protocol?Shouldn't you have considered all the above before pronouncing "the PM and his govt" as "war criminals"?
oThe PM and his govt are war criminals
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“It is disgraceful that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is reportedly planning to issue baseless and illegitimate arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials,” -Mike Johnson(Speaker of the US House of Representatives)
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Dear Chidi,
Agree:
Poetry is, as poetry sounds, poetry does
Say the bells of St. Clement's
You owe me five farthings
Say the bells of St. Martin's
When will you pay me?
Say the bells of Old Bailey
When I grow rich
Say the bells of Shoreditch
And when will that be?
Say the bells of Stepney
Oh, I do not know
Say the great bells of Bow” ((etc etc. A rhyme I learned over there in Fulham)
Chief Chidi , the point is that you’ll know ( for a fact) that you’ve arrived
When they start singing your poems and songs
Like Robert Burns
But not before.
# For your attention please : The number of children and women killed in Gaza
# The Electronic Intifada : How the Gaza genocide will lead to Israel's collapse
With regard to your admonition about “one of the consequences of speaking before thinking” - even worse “ shooting first and asking questions later”, it may amuse you to know that
I got to this point merely thinking about what I’m about to say, that for starters you’ll respond with the unreasonable, pedestrian, default, kick-start, knee-jerk, cliché position : “ You can’t compare lemons with oranges !”, to which I’ll have to reply like Baruch Hussein Obama : “Yes we can !”
Having just mentioned Brother Obama ( one upon a time, no love lost between him and Netanyahu) I wonder what he’s thinking and exactly how he’s feeling about Grandpa Sleepy Joe Biden / Genocide Joe’s mishandling of the Israel-Gaza-West Bank imbroglio and the upcoming war between the forces of good and evil, when Hezbollah starts some real shitty conflagration on Netanyahu’s Northern border - verily a scenario that will herald the beginning of what in Rabbinic Judaism is usually referred to as “the end”
More than “Sobs, apologies and regrets”, this is how serious it is just now : Jeffrey Sachs Interview : Global Tensions Rise
And so to some of the poetic ( some will say “ anti Semitic”) questions I have in mind 👍
This being the second day of Shavuot , I can’t help wondering if there are any Rabbinic authorities who sincerely believe that oppression of Palestinians - in contrast with kindness to strangers is an understanding to be derived from the crowning glory and birthing of the Hebrew Nation - Torah Misinai - and the granting of that nation’s eternal constitution :
For more clarity on your position vis-à-vis Israel and Hamas, how do you compare the events of January 6, 1966 in Nigeria , and October 7, 2023 in Israel?
Invite you to imagine:
Some Hamas operatives doing in Israel what your people (the miscreants) did in Nigeria
I’m not the only one who would appreciate a response from you after facing that kind of reality …. Some free flow of your poetic imagination , beginning with this question :
Whose side are you on ?
On the side of oppression or on the side of human rights and justice ?
Please feel free to ask me similar questions
Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA
When they start singing your poems and songs
Like Robert Burns
But not before."-Cornelius Hanelberg
Mazi,
Sincerely and seriously, I don't care whether they do or note.
I however know for sure that recorders of history will record that there lived a man who went by the name Chidi Anthony Opara, who wrote poetry, some good and some bad.
Warm regards,
-CAO.
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I had just finished listening to Baba Kadiri (on the phone) and checking out
The Genealogy of Ellen G. White ( co-founder of the Seventh Day Adventists
when your response popped up in my inbox, a response in which you don’t
breathe a word about Gaza or starvation of children in Biafra
“The evil that men do lives after them”, not to mention the merely
good, the bad, and the ugly ( like the rich, the poor, the tourists, and
The Revolutionaries at the Owerri Motor Park and the Central Park
In New York City - and - from” Midnight Cowboy” re - the Statue of Liberty :
“It's up in Central Park, taking a leak. If you hurry, you can catch the supper show.”
I know that the mere mention of the word poetry would get you going, I know
that you have such strong feelings about poetry, less strong feelings about
the carnage in Gaza, but “ Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”, or
shall I compare thee to Robert Burns or Dylan Thomas or Bobby Dylan
is bound to elicit a strong reaction from thee, about posterity and eternity
Chidi the man and his Chi 👍
More poetry after the Holocaust
This time in the realm of the macabre
Before the general resurrection, and,
It’s not a prose poem : Rubble From Bone
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