Nigeria honors racist Lord Lugard...
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Ikhide
Feb 24, 2014, 10:37:21 AM2/24/14
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“In character and temperament, the typical African of this race-type is a happy, thriftless, excitable person, lacking in self control, discipline, and foresight. Naturally courageous, and naturally courteous and polite, full of personal v...
anity, with little sense of veracity, fond of music and loving weapons as an oriental loves jewelry.
His thoughts are concentrated on the events and feelings of the moment, and he suffers little from the apprehension for the future or grief for the past. His mind is far nearer to the animal world than that of the European or Asiatic, and exhibits something of the animals’ placidity and want of desire to rise beyond the state he has reached. Through the ages the African appears to have evolved no organised religious creed, and though some tribes appear to believe in a deity, the religious sense seldom rises above pantheistic animalism and seems more often to take the form of a vague dread of the supernatural. He lacks the power of organisation, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business. He loves the display of power, but fails to realise its responsibility…. He will work hard with a less incentive than most races. He has the courage of the fighting animal – an instinct rather than a moral virtue…. In brief, the virtues and defects of this race-type are those of attractive children, whose confidence when it is won is given ungrudgingly as to an older and wiser superior and without envy…. Perhaps the two traits which have impressed me as those most characteristic of the African native are his lack of apprehension and his ability to visualize the future.”
- Lord Frederick John Dealtry Lugard in his book, Dual Mandate, Page 70
For his contributions to Nigeria’s greatness, Lord Lugard is being honored at this Friday’s ‘Centenary awards”, along with “General” Sani Abacha as one of Nigeria’s greats, confirming that we are indeed the dolts that he says we are. They will be sharing the stage with true greats like Professor Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe’s ghosts. Is Kongi attending this joke? I hope not! Nigeria! Oro pe si je! I nor fit shout!
His thoughts are concentrated on the events and feelings of the moment, and he suffers little from the apprehension for the future or grief for the past. His mind is far nearer to the animal world than that of the European or Asiatic, and exhibits something of the animals’ placidity and want of desire to rise beyond the state he has reached. Through the ages the African appears to have evolved no organised religious creed, and though some tribes appear to believe in a deity, the religious sense seldom rises above pantheistic animalism and seems more often to take the form of a vague dread of the supernatural. He lacks the power of organisation, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business. He loves the display of power, but fails to realise its responsibility…. He will work hard with a less incentive than most races. He has the courage of the fighting animal – an instinct rather than a moral virtue…. In brief, the virtues and defects of this race-type are those of attractive children, whose confidence when it is won is given ungrudgingly as to an older and wiser superior and without envy…. Perhaps the two traits which have impressed me as those most characteristic of the African native are his lack of apprehension and his ability to visualize the future.”
- Lord Frederick John Dealtry Lugard in his book, Dual Mandate, Page 70
For his contributions to Nigeria’s greatness, Lord Lugard is being honored at this Friday’s ‘Centenary awards”, along with “General” Sani Abacha as one of Nigeria’s greats, confirming that we are indeed the dolts that he says we are. They will be sharing the stage with true greats like Professor Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe’s ghosts. Is Kongi attending this joke? I hope not! Nigeria! Oro pe si je! I nor fit shout!
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kenneth harrow
Feb 24, 2014, 10:45:15 AM2/24/14
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and we thought adichie invented the term "single story." here it is,
in all its glory: the colonial single story (hasn't changed much,
has it!!!!!!)
what irony!! to get an award for being the single story-maker, and then, in all seriousness, to believe your own story. well, na so dis life be. a bad joke. all we can do is join ikhide and laugh at it.
ken
what irony!! to get an award for being the single story-maker, and then, in all seriousness, to believe your own story. well, na so dis life be. a bad joke. all we can do is join ikhide and laugh at it.
ken
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ugwuanyi Lawrence
Feb 24, 2014, 12:37:56 PM2/24/14
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On Monday, February 24, 2014 5:33 PM, ugwuanyi Lawrence <ugwuany...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Nigeria has served as private company for very few self-colonised post-colonial elites and it is no doubt that she can honour thieves and criminals.
"In a country ,one country
shit is a meal to citizens
And brothers and sisters are vagabonds
Prostitution is an export to,
where a father's wealth is sleeping in a bank
The authorization of thieves made saints by power"
Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi,Let Them Not Run( A Collection of Poetry) (Ibadan;Kraft Publishers) Available for sales online.
Pick a copy and read Nigerian anger in stones as words.
****************************************
I think the most laughable and ridiculous irony in this list is to honour Blessed Michael Iwene Tansi who is believed by the catholic world to be saint with legendary murderers-those who would have boldly advertised a peculiar love for evil if Nigeria wanted it.
For those who may care to know-to be made a saint in the catholic faith there would have been a clear case of miracle that came about by invoking one's name after death.If you believe in miracle- that is a clear and total subervsion of the natural order then you can appreciate the spiritual logic about miracle and what it means to be a saint.In 1917 at Fatima-Portugal -one of such happened through an unusual movement/changing of the colour of the sun and was witnessed by over 70,000 people including university professors who were scientists and who held that the movement of the sun was just beyond the natural order before it was confirmed to be a miracle.If you don't then the idea of a saint may not make sense to you.
********************************************
You will likely be shocked by the volume of ignorance,impunity and inhumanity that pervades the Nigerian political space at the moment if you attempt to study them and it is for this same reason that Nigeria will honour outstanding thieves and criminals who used the state power as their gun and gut.
But what is honour when it comes from dishnourable source you should ask?
Now on Lugard:
Nigeria has served as private company for very few self-colonised post-colonial elites and it is no doubt that she can honour thieves and criminals.
"In a country ,one country
shit is a meal to citizens
And brothers and sisters are vagabonds
Prostitution is an export to,
where a father's wealth is sleeping in a bank
The authorization of thieves made saints by power"
Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi,Let Them Not Run( A Collection of Poetry) (Ibadan;Kraft Publishers) Available for sales online.
Pick a copy and read Nigerian anger in stones as words.
****************************************
I think the most laughable and ridiculous irony in this list is to honour Blessed Michael Iwene Tansi who is believed by the catholic world to be saint with legendary murderers-those who would have boldly advertised a peculiar love for evil if Nigeria wanted it.
For those who may care to know-to be made a saint in the catholic faith there would have been a clear case of miracle that came about by invoking one's name after death.If you believe in miracle- that is a clear and total subervsion of the natural order then you can appreciate the spiritual logic about miracle and what it means to be a saint.In 1917 at Fatima-Portugal -one of such happened through an unusual movement/changing of the colour of the sun and was witnessed by over 70,000 people including university professors who were scientists and who held that the movement of the sun was just beyond the natural order before it was confirmed to be a miracle.If you don't then the idea of a saint may not make sense to you.
********************************************
You will likely be shocked by the volume of ignorance,impunity and inhumanity that pervades the Nigerian political space at the moment if you attempt to study them and it is for this same reason that Nigeria will honour outstanding thieves and criminals who used the state power as their gun and gut.
But what is honour when it comes from dishnourable source you should ask?
Now on Lugard:
"His thoughts are concentrated on the events and feelings of the moment, and he suffers little from the apprehension for the future or grief for the past."
My Reaction:This
statement about the African makes much sense even as it comes from
Lord Lugard.You might likely not find an African state which has a
fair idea of her population in the next five years with the volume of
challenges implied and the possible solutions.Perhaps a theory of
African worldview can explain why this is the case but it has to be seen
to be true in the first instance.
" His mind is far nearer to the animal world than that of the European or Asiatic, and exhibits something of the animals’ placidity......
My Reaction:Who is closer to the animal world-those who kiss and sleep with animals and would not do so with other human beings because of their colour or those with a clear sharp sense of what animals are and take them for what they are?If you should read that someone married an animal sometime in the near future will your thought come to Africa on this?At a conference in Brazil (2008) it was once reported that one of such lover of animals was so much in love with a dog that he willed 7 million dollars to a dog while dying.Do you think an African at least at this time would do this?
"Through the ages the African appears to have evolved no organised religious creed, and though some tribes appear to believe in a deity, the religious sense seldom rises above pantheistic animalism and seems more often to take the form of a vague dread of the supernatural. He lacks the power of organization, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business."
My Reaction:This is a mere figment of Lugardian imagination .If he located the level of the evolution of his society before he came to what was later called Nigeria and whether before then they evolved they were much different from those he met in Africa; or last gone beyond mere observational statement here to insightful contrast he would have better deserved our audience here.
" He loves the display of power, but fails to realize its responsibility…. He will work hard with a less incentive than most races".
My Reaction:There might be no power without responsibility in Africa.The point is that power becomes responsible to a wrong source-to one's pocket;to one's family;to the global empire; to corruption; to evil; thanks to the dysfunctional state system in majority of black Africa.
" His mind is far nearer to the animal world than that of the European or Asiatic, and exhibits something of the animals’ placidity......
My Reaction:Who is closer to the animal world-those who kiss and sleep with animals and would not do so with other human beings because of their colour or those with a clear sharp sense of what animals are and take them for what they are?If you should read that someone married an animal sometime in the near future will your thought come to Africa on this?At a conference in Brazil (2008) it was once reported that one of such lover of animals was so much in love with a dog that he willed 7 million dollars to a dog while dying.Do you think an African at least at this time would do this?
"Through the ages the African appears to have evolved no organised religious creed, and though some tribes appear to believe in a deity, the religious sense seldom rises above pantheistic animalism and seems more often to take the form of a vague dread of the supernatural. He lacks the power of organization, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business."
My Reaction:This is a mere figment of Lugardian imagination .If he located the level of the evolution of his society before he came to what was later called Nigeria and whether before then they evolved they were much different from those he met in Africa; or last gone beyond mere observational statement here to insightful contrast he would have better deserved our audience here.
" He loves the display of power, but fails to realize its responsibility…. He will work hard with a less incentive than most races".
My Reaction:There might be no power without responsibility in Africa.The point is that power becomes responsible to a wrong source-to one's pocket;to one's family;to the global empire; to corruption; to evil; thanks to the dysfunctional state system in majority of black Africa.
"He has the courage of the fighting animal – an instinct rather than a moral virtue…."
My Reaction:Who
produced Hitler and Joseph Stalin and showed the world how to decimate
life in millions and feed on human pains almost as animal would do-Was
it Africa?
"Perhaps the two traits which have impressed me as those most characteristic of the African native are his lack of apprehension and his ability to visualize the future.”
My Reaction:Yes
this is still a point that deserves a worthy attention and urges us to
consider the strength and quality of the traditional African idea of the
future and whether it has not inserted itself into modern Africa
dangerously..
- Lord Frederick John Dealtry Lugard in his book, Dual Mandate, Page 70
My Reaction:I need a copy of this book whoever can help with how should get across.
"For his contributions to Nigeria’s greatness, Lord Lugard is being honored at this Friday’s ‘Centenary awards”, along with “General” Sani Abacha as one of Nigeria’s greats, confirming that we are indeed the dolts that he says we are. They will be sharing the stage with true greats like Professor Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe’s ghosts. Is Kongi attending this joke? I hope not! Nigeria! Oro pe si je! I nor fit shout!"
My Reaction:Anybody
who knows how morally little and wretched Nigeria means to the world
at the moment should not even go to receive this award or watch the
ceremony in television.
L.O.Ugwuanyi,Ph.D
Visiting Associate Prof
Department of Philosophy and Religions
Great Zimbabwe University -Zimbabwe/
Department of Philosophy
UNIABUJA.
L.O.Ugwuanyi,Ph.D
Visiting Associate Prof
Department of Philosophy and Religions
Great Zimbabwe University -Zimbabwe/
Department of Philosophy
UNIABUJA.
ugwuanyi Lawrence
Feb 24, 2014, 12:33:25 PM2/24/14
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On Monday, February 24, 2014 3:39 PM, Ikhide <xok...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
- Ikhide
Nigeria has served as private company for very few self-colonised post-colonial elites and it is no doubt that she can honour thieves and criminals.
"In a country ,one country
shit is a meal to citizens
And brothers and sisters are vagabonds
Prostitution is an export to,
where a father's wealth is sleeping in a bank
The authorization of thieves made saints by power"
Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi,Let Them Not Run( A Collection of Poetry) (Ibadan;Kraft Publishers) Available for sales online.
Pick a copy and read Nigerian anger in stones as words.
****************************************
I think the most laughable and ridiculous irony in this list is to honour Blessed Michael Iwene Tansi who is believed by the catholic world to be saint with legendary murderers-those who would have boldly advertised a peculiar love for evil if Nigeria wanted it.
For those who may care to know-to be made a saint in the catholic faith there would have been a clear case of miracle that came about by invoking one's name after death.If you believe in miracle- that is a clear and total subervsion of the natural order then you can appreciate the spiritual logic about miracle and what it means to be a saint.In 1917 at Fatima-Portugal -one of such happened through an unusual movement/changing of the colour of the sun and was witnessed by over 70,000 people including university professors who were scientists and who held that the movement of the sun was just beyond the natural order before it was confirmed to be a miracle.If you don't then the idea of a saint may not make sense to you.
********************************************
You will likely be shocked by the volume of ignorance,impunity and inhumanity that pervades the Nigerian political space at the moment if you attempt to study them and it is for this same reason that Nigeria will honour outstanding thieves and criminals who used the state power as their gun and gut.
But what is honour when it comes from dishnourable source you should ask?
Now on Lugard:
"His thoughts are concentrated on the events and feelings of the moment,
and he suffers little from the apprehension for the future or grief for
the past."
My Reaction:This statement about the African makes much sense even as it comes from Lord Lugard.You might likely not find an African state which has a fair idea of her population in the next five years with the volume of challenges implied and the possible solutions.Perhaps a theory of African worldview can explain why this is the case but it has to be seen to be true in the first instance.
" His mind is far nearer to the animal world than that of the European or Asiatic, and exhibits something of the animals’ placidity......
My Reaction:Who is closer to the animal world-those who kiss and sleep with animals and would not do so with other human beings because of their colour or those with a clear sharp sense of what animals are and take them for what they are?If you should read that someone married an animal sometime in the near future will your thought come to Africa on this?At a conference in Brazil (2008) it was once reported that one of such lover of animals was so much in love with a dog that he willed 7 million dollars to a dog while dying.Do you think an African at least at this time would do this?
"Through the ages the African appears to have evolved no organised religious creed, and though some tribes appear to believe in a deity, the religious sense seldom rises above pantheistic animalism and seems more often to take the form of a vague dread of the supernatural. He lacks the power of organization, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business."
My Reaction:This is a mere figment of Lugardian imagination .If he located the level of the evolution of his society before he came to what was later called Nigeria and whether before then they evolved they were much different from those he met in Africa; or last gone beyond mere observational statement here to insightful contrast he would have better deserved our audience here.
" He loves the display of power, but fails to realize its responsibility…. He will work hard with a less incentive than most races".
My Reaction:There might be no power without responsibility in Africa.The point is that power becomes responsible to a wrong source-to one's pocket;to one's family;to the global empire; to corruption; to evil; thanks to the dysfunctional state system in majority of black Africa.
" His mind is far nearer to the animal world than that of the European or Asiatic, and exhibits something of the animals’ placidity......
My Reaction:Who is closer to the animal world-those who kiss and sleep with animals and would not do so with other human beings because of their colour or those with a clear sharp sense of what animals are and take them for what they are?If you should read that someone married an animal sometime in the near future will your thought come to Africa on this?At a conference in Brazil (2008) it was once reported that one of such lover of animals was so much in love with a dog that he willed 7 million dollars to a dog while dying.Do you think an African at least at this time would do this?
"Through the ages the African appears to have evolved no organised religious creed, and though some tribes appear to believe in a deity, the religious sense seldom rises above pantheistic animalism and seems more often to take the form of a vague dread of the supernatural. He lacks the power of organization, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business."
My Reaction:This is a mere figment of Lugardian imagination .If he located the level of the evolution of his society before he came to what was later called Nigeria and whether before then they evolved they were much different from those he met in Africa; or last gone beyond mere observational statement here to insightful contrast he would have better deserved our audience here.
" He loves the display of power, but fails to realize its responsibility…. He will work hard with a less incentive than most races".
My Reaction:There might be no power without responsibility in Africa.The point is that power becomes responsible to a wrong source-to one's pocket;to one's family;to the global empire; to corruption; to evil; thanks to the dysfunctional state system in majority of black Africa.
"He has the courage of
the fighting animal – an instinct rather than a moral virtue…."
My Reaction:Who produced Hitler and Joseph Stalin and showed the world how to decimate life in millions and feed on human pains almost as animal would do-Was it Africa?
"Perhaps the two traits
which have impressed me as those most characteristic of the African
native are his lack of apprehension and his
ability to visualize the future.”
My Reaction:Yes this is still a point that deserves a worthy attention and urges us to consider the strength and quality of the traditional African idea of the future and whether it has not inserted itself into modern Africa dangerously..
- Lord Frederick John Dealtry Lugard in his book, Dual Mandate, Page 70
My Reaction:I need a copy of this book whoever can help with how should get across.
"For his contributions to Nigeria’s greatness, Lord Lugard is being
honored at this Friday’s ‘Centenary awards”, along with “General” Sani
Abacha as one of Nigeria’s greats, confirming that we are indeed the
dolts that he says we are. They will be sharing the stage with true
greats like Professor Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe’s ghosts. Is Kongi
attending this joke? I hope not! Nigeria! Oro pe si je! I nor fit shout!"
My Reaction:Anybody who knows how morally little and wretched Nigeria means to the world at the moment should not even go to receive this award or watch the ceremony in television.
L.O.Ugwuanyi,Ph.D
Visiting Associate Prof
Department of Philosophy and Religions
Great Zimbabwe University -Zimbabwe/
Department of Philosophy
UNIABUJA.
L.O.Ugwuanyi,Ph.D
Visiting Associate Prof
Department of Philosophy and Religions
Great Zimbabwe University -Zimbabwe/
Department of Philosophy
UNIABUJA.
Stalk my blog at http://www.xokigbo.com/
Follow me on Twitter: @ikhide
Join me on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ikhide
FKO
Feb 25, 2014, 4:31:20 AM2/25/14
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You can access a copy of the book by clicking on this link: https://ia700402.us.archive.org/34/items/cu31924028741175/cu31924028741175.pdf
ugwuanyi Lawrence
Feb 25, 2014, 6:59:43 AM2/25/14
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Thanks
Noted.
L.O.Ugwuanyi,Ph.D
GZU-Zimabwe/
UNIABUJA
Noted.
L.O.Ugwuanyi,Ph.D
GZU-Zimabwe/
UNIABUJA
On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 10:00 AM, FKO <felix...@gmail.com> wrote:
You can access a copy of the book by clicking on this link: https://ia700402.us.archive.org/34/items/cu31924028741175/cu31924028741175.pdf
John Mbaku
Feb 25, 2014, 9:15:23 AM2/25/14
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This might provide some perspective to the ongoing debate about the so-called honors to Nigeria's former colonial rulers: Professor Michael Crowder has written extensively about colonialism in Africa and, of course, Nigeria and Sir (later Lord) Frederick Lugard. Check out this article: Michael Crowder, "Whose Dream was It Anyway? Twenty-Five Years of African Independence," African Affairs, Vol. 86, No. 342 (January 1987): 7-24. Pay particular attention to page 12. Here, he talks about the extremely cruel nature of colonial rule and the latter's atrocities. I quote: "The less known atrocities committed in the suppression of the Satiru revolt in Northern Nigeria by the Sultan of Sokoto's forces acting on commission for the British in 1906 were such that the missionary Walter Miller wrote that 'it would be worth Leopold of Belgium's while to pay ten thousand pounds to get hold of what we know of this,'" He continues: "As Edward Lugard, brother of the British High Commissioner in Northern Nigeria, wrote: 'they killed every living thing before them', Women's breasts had been cut off and the leader spitted on a stake." Professor Crowder's accounts are based on primary sources, mainly correspondence between Edward Lugard and Sir Frederick Lugard (1908) and Walter Miller to Sir Frederick Lugard (1907).
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