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Chielo Zona: December 2011
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Literature * Philosophy * Society. Saturday, December 3, 2011. What Ojukwu told me before, during and after the war —Sam Aluko. For those who want to understand Ojukwu and Nigeria, this interview might be of help. I said no. I told him I would come and see him, instead. I told the person he sent that he should tell the governor that I was the one who should come and see him and not him coming to see me. That was on January 20, 1966.". Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Chielo Zona: March 2010
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Literature * Philosophy * Society. Tuesday, March 30, 2010. Today, Royal Dutch Shell is holding back the tears no more. Shell apologises to all inhabitants of Nigeria’s Niger Delta for the many years of human rights violations, for which Shell takes full responsibility. Confronted with massive evidence of human rights violations that can only be attributed to its operations in the Niger Delta, Royal Dutch Shell is extremely proud to be the first international petrochemical company to publicly say:. Niger...
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Chielo Zona: January 2010
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Literature * Philosophy * Society. Monday, January 4, 2010. The New Face of American Imperialism. This article details how the horrible Ugandan anti-gay initiatives are being sponsored by the American religious right. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Nigerian writer, philosopher and scholar. Associate professor of Anglophone and Postcolonial and African Literature at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago. View my complete profile. The New Face of American Imperialism. FEEDJIT Live Traffic Feed.
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Chielo Zona: May 2010
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Literature * Philosophy * Society. Wednesday, May 19, 2010. Why did the FT pull Amnesty's Shell ad? Just why did the Financial Times pull our Shell advert so late? I'd find it hard to believe that Shell lent on them. Did the Financial Times get cold feet about upsetting this British blue-chip company? Saturday, May 15, 2010. Ending the Slavery Blame-Game. How did slaves make it to these coastal forts? The historians John Thornton and Linda Heywood of Boston University estimate that 90 percent of those sh...
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Chielo Zona: April 2010
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Literature * Philosophy * Society. Thursday, April 1, 2010. Should There Be an Inquisition for the Pope? I love the Catholic church - well I was born into it; it formed me. I'm thinking though that Maureen Dowd has got some important issues in her opinion essay. Here she goes:. It doesn’t seem right that the Catholic Church is spending Holy Week practicing the unholy art of spin.". One of my friends replied to his article. See #106. Interesting. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Chielo Zona: Things Left Unsaid - Chimamanda Adichie
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Literature * Philosophy * Society. Sunday, May 26, 2013. Things Left Unsaid - Chimamanda Adichie. Achebe mourns Biafra, but his anger is directed at the failures of Nigeria. His great disappointment manifests itself in a rare moment of defiance towards the end of the book:. This explains why we have not been able to produce a president for the federal republic of Nigeria. August 6, 2013 at 2:47 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. What Achebe did not know - By Tunde Okanlawon.
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Chielo Zona: June 2012
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Literature * Philosophy * Society. Monday, June 4, 2012. The leader of the coup against General Yakubu Gowon. Is an erratic, vainglorious, impetuous, corrupt, vindictive, intelligent, articulate, daring Hausa. Brigadier MURTALA MUHAMMED. Was a prime force in the Nigerian coup of July, 1966, which brought GOWON. To power, and is one of the two principal plotters against GOWON. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. FEEDJIT Live Traffic Feed.
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Chielo Zona: April 2014
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Literature * Philosophy * Society. Wednesday, April 30, 2014. History Class: Who sold Nigeria to the British for £865k in 1899? Today we will be discussing the first oil war, which was fought in the 19th century, in the area that became Nigeria. All through the 19th century, palm oil was highly sought-after by the British, for use as an industrial lubricant for machinery. Remember that Britain was the world’s first industrialised nation, so they needed resources such as palm oil to maintain that.
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Chielo Zona: March 2012
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Literature * Philosophy * Society. Thursday, March 15, 2012. Under good government, poverty is shameful; under bad government, wealth is shameful. The true life is absent. Why Reform and Transform? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Nigerian writer, philosopher and scholar. Associate professor of Anglophone and Postcolonial and African Literature at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago. View my complete profile. FEEDJIT Live Traffic Feed.
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Chielo Zona: What Achebe did not know - By Tunde Okanlawon
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Literature * Philosophy * Society. Wednesday, May 29, 2013. What Achebe did not know - By Tunde Okanlawon. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Nigerian writer, philosopher and scholar. Associate professor of Anglophone and Postcolonial and African Literature at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago. View my complete profile. Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Camus, Coetzee, or authors that make you think about the world and realize your moral duty to it. What Achebe did not know - By Tunde Okanlawon.
