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Rejoinder: BOOK REVIEW: Yakubu Gowon’s “My Life of Duty and Allegiance”, – Aburi Accord failed due to federal backtracking, not Ojukwu’s intransigence,’ says Onoh by Oluyemi Ogunseyin
Drawing from over a decade of deep, personal discussions with his late brother-in-law, Ojukwu, in his private residence and office, as well as his personal interactions with late Col. Achuzie and particularly his 1998–1999 conversations with late Maj. Gen. Philip Effiong, Onoh said his narrative is a firsthand account of the events.
BOOK REVIEW: Inside Yakubu Gowon’s “My Life of Duty and Allegiance”, By Mathew Hassan Kukah
The reader will be right to expect that this book will be the biography to end all biographies and accounts of Nigeria’s chequered history through three coups and a civil war. If you are expecting any revelations from declassified documents, private papers and notes, the reader might be disappointed. The reasons is that, from the beginning, the author confesses that: I want to emphasise that I am telling my story without access to my crucial personal records since many important documents taken from my desk after my removal in July 1975 were discarded by those who succeeded me. Other documents that survived were destroyed by two fire incidents in Bakori and Kaduna(xxi). Yet, none of this diminishes the book which obviously was written straight from whatever he could remember.
Yoruba Tennis Club marks centenary with cultural week
Ahead of its 100th anniversary, the Yoruba Tennis Club has unveiled a four-day centenary cultural week as part…
#Tennis #News #Brotherhood #centenarycelebration #ClubAnniversary #CulturalWeek #Lagosevents #Nigerianculture #Nigerianhistory #TraditionalDay #Yorubaculture #YorubaTennisClub
https://www.europesays.com/tennis/55404/
https://www.europesays.com/africa/369757/ August 5 in Nigerian History: Econet’s First GSM Network, Mary Slessor’s 1876 Calabar Mission #1876CalabarMission #August5 #Econet #Ethiopia #MarySlessor #NigerianHistory
@hallvors
It's heavy to think about the sacrifices and the bitter truth of what colonial powers forced African soldiers into for a war that wasn't theirs. This documentary captures that forgotten history: (https://www.aljazeera.com/video/al-jazeera-correspondent/2012/7/22/the-burma-boy)
#TheBurmaBoy #WorldWar2 #AfricanHistory #NigerianHistory #Colonialism #ForgottenHeroes
https://www.europesays.com/africa/358033/ Aguiyi-Ironsi Family Demands Apology, Compensation 58 Years #AguiyiIronsi #apology #compensation #CounterCoup #FederalGovernment #ImoAguiyiIronsi #July1966 #July1966Coup #MilitaryCoup #Nigeria #NigerianHistory
https://www.europesays.com/africa/354562/ Aguiyi-Ironsi’s Legacy: Tinubu on Nigeria’s Unity #AbiaState #AguiyiIronsi #BolaTinubu #Leadership #MilitaryHeadOfState #MilitaryLeader #NationalInterest #Nigeria #NigeriaUnity #NigerianHistory #Obasanjo #OlusegunObasanjo #Patriotism #Tinubu
https://www.europesays.com/africa/287866/ Abdulsalami: Military didn’t write 1999 Constitution #1979Constitution #1999Constitution #AbdulsalamiAbubakar #ConstitutionalDebate #MilitaryRule #Nigeria #NigerianHistory #NikiTobiCommittee #PunchNewspaper
https://www.europesays.com/africa/284317/ Abdulsalami: How Abacha Pressured Me to Be Army Chief in 199 #1993Coup #AbdulsalamiAbubakar #CallOfDuty #ChiefOfArmyStaff #InterimNationalGovernment #June12Annulment #MilitaryRule #Nigeria #NigerianHistory #NigerianPolitics #SaniAbacha
https://www.europesays.com/africa/282957/ MKO Abiola Collapsed, Not Poisoned, Says Abdulsalami #AbdulsalamiAbubakar #AbiolaDeathCause #autobiography #June12 #MKOAbiola #Nigeria #NigerianHistory #PoliticalHistory #SaniAbacha #USEnvoys
https://www.europesays.com/africa/282729/ Abacha’s Death: Abdulsalami Raises Fresh Suspicions #abacha #AbdulsalamiAbubakar #CallOfDuty #IshayaBamaiyi #June81998 #MilitaryRule #Nigeria #NigerianHistory #PresidentialVilla
https://www.europesays.com/africa/246932/ Gowon: Ojukwu Misled East Over Aburi Accord Failure #AburiAccord #autobiography #Biafra #MilitaryRule #Nigeria #NigerianCivilWar #NigerianHistory #OdumegwuOjukwu #YakubuGowon
https://www.europesays.com/africa/243369/ Danjuma donates N3bn at Gowon autobiography unveiling #AbdulsamadRabiu #abuja #AlikoDangote #autobiography #BookLaunch #KashimShettima #MatthewKukah #MilitaryLeaders #MyLifeOfDutyAndAllegiance #Nigeria #NigerianHistory #TheophilusDanjuma #YakubuGowon
https://www.europesays.com/africa/117098/ Tinubu hails Obasanjo’s towering influence at 89 #89thBirthday #BayoOnanuga #BolaTinubu #ElderStatesman #FourthRepublic #Nigeria #NigerianHistory #NigerianLeaders #NigerianPolitics #OlusegunObasanjo #PresidentialTribute
'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe
https://booksperience.org/2023/10/16/ithings-fall-apart-i-by-chinua-achebe/
#Achebe #Africa, #African, #AfricanHistory, #AfricanLiterature, #Beliefs, #Blacks, #British, #Change, #ChangeVs.Tradition, #ChinuaAchebe, #Clans, #Colonialism, #Colonialists, #Customs, #English, #Ethnic, #Ethnicity, #Faith, #Fiction, #History, #Ibo, #Igbo, #Misogyny, #Modernity, #Nigeria, #NigerianHistory, #NigerianLiterature, #Novel, #Okonkwo, #Patriarchy, #Religion, #ThingsFallApart, #Tradition, #TraditionVs.Change, #Traditions,
https://archive.org/details/ropes-of-sand
Ropes of Sand: Studies in Igbo History and Culture
Topics
#Nigeria, #Igbo, #Igbohistory, #Igboculture, #Africanhistory, #historyofAfrica, #blackchattelslavery, #Aro, #slavery, #slavetrade, #historyofNigeria, #Nigerianhistory, #economichistory, #colonialism, #imperialism, #Nri, #Nsukka, #Igboland
Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo (22 November 1937 – 9 March 2009) was a Nigerian historian known for the history and historiography of Africa, more particularly Igbo history and the history of Southeastern Nigeria. Themes emphasised in his work include pre-colonial and colonial history, inter-group relations, the Aro and the slave trade, the art and science of history in Africa, and nation-building.