ENLIGHTENING!!!!! PROF. OBI NWAKANMA, EDUCATES THE IKWERRES,NOW THEY KNOW, THAT THEY ARE ALL IGBOS.
About Prof. Obi Nwakanma.
Ph.D. in English from Saint Louis University, Missouri
M.F.A. in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis
B.A. in English from University of Jos, Nigeria (1989)
Poet, journalist, biographer and literary critic, Obi Nwakanma was born in Nigeria. Thirsting for Sunlight, his biography of the tragic modernist poet, Christopher Okigbo, was published by James Currey (UK) in 2010. His collection of poems, The Horsemen & Other Poems, was published by Africa World Press (New Jersey) in 2007. Nwakanma’s first collection of poems, The Roped Urn, was awarded the Cadbury Prize in 1996 by the Association of Nigerian Authors, and he received the Walter J. Ong Award for Distinguished Achievement in 2008 from Saint Louis University. His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in various anthologies and publications including Okike, Vanguard Review, Callaloo, and Wasafiri. His poetry has been translated into Spanish, Dutch, German, and Turkish. Obi Nwakanma has also worked as a professional journalist, reporting internationally for Newsweek, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, and as Group Literary editor for the Vanguard,one of the major national newspapers in Nigeria, for which he continues to write a weekly column, “The Orbit” in theSunday Vanguard. He is currently working on a novel, a new collection of poems, and a book on The Mbari Movement, Transnationalism and Modern African Literature.
Professor Obi Nwakanma Below is a report that once again puts a lie on Reuben Emeka Okala’s claims. This guy who calls himself a pastor but lies like Satan himself, perjures his own people, and insults his on paternity. Hell hath no better guest! First he calls me a liar and challenges me to name any Ikwerre who attends Ohaneze meetings. I submit this report published in April 2013. Perhaps Okala does not know that prominent Ikwerre like the late Obi Wali and Okogbule Wonodi were founding Trustees of Ohaneze Ndi Igbo. If these accomplished, highly educated, and culturally informed men would identify themselves, who the hell is this poorly educated, half-ass pastor, who does not know the difference between “core” and “cure” to invalidate their claims? He goes even further to tag on to a thorough misreading of Ojukwu’s statement at Eze Woluchem’s home, where a reporter misuses the phrase “sister ethnic groups” in a bid to foreclose the substantial meaning of that statement which lies in the “one.” Again, I’ll rather let the report below speak for itself. Not that it’d shut up Okala. It will only make him writhe in the pain of self-extrication. Francis Ellah is wrong. Obi Wali is wrong. Aguma is wrong. Eze Woluchem is wrong. Isaac Wonwu is wrong. Only an inconsequential Emeka Okala of questionable pedigree is right on this issue of the Ikwerre and the Igbo. Odikwa egwu!
Obi Nwakanma
Igbo woman being married to a Rivers man
THE IKWERRE PEOPLE REAFFIRM THEIR IGBO ROOT,INAUGURATE OHANAEZE NDI-IGBO RIVER STATE CHAPTER
Press Statement – The leadership of the Umbrella Igbo youth organisation Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Wing held a meeting after the inauguration of the Rivers State Executives of the Pan-Igbo organisation Ohanaeze NdiIgbo in Port-Harcourt the Rivers State capital. After the meeting, resolutions were reached and we wish to state as follows,
1.That we congratulate the Rivers State chapter of Ohanaeze Ndigbo under the able leadership of Prince Igo Okparamma and the eagle-eye guidance of the leader of Ohanaeze Ndigbo South-South and Deputy Secretary-General Chief (Engr.) Isaac Wonwu for a successful inauguration.
2.That the historic inauguration of the Rivers State Executive Committee of Ohanaeze Ndigbo signifies the actualisation of the life-long dream of the founding fathers of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Rivers state (such men as Senator Francis Ellah, Eze C.C Nwuche, Chief Emmanuel Aguma, and
Senator Obi Wali) , which is re-uniting the Igbo of Rivers state with their kits in the
South-East and Delta state.
3.We are overwhelmed at the resurgence of the Igbo spirit and bold affirmation of their
Igboness by the Igbo of Rivers state, resulting in the massive and qualitative turn out for the event despite the heavy down pour.
4.We hereby call on those Igbo elements still sitting by the fence in the Rivers configuration to immediately identify with their true brothers; Ndigbo by openly identifying with Ohanaeze Ndigbo. Not allowing artificial geographical boundaries to continue to erode their minds of who they truly are.?
5.Furthermore we demand that as a matter of urgency, the negative psychological relics of the Biafran war should be dismantled from every part of Igboland in Rivers state, with particular emphasis on the urgent change of name of the “Liberation Stadium” to either “Elekahia Stadium” or it be named after a “son of the soil” who have made his mark in the field of sports: This will appreciably bring to an end the sore in the mind of the people of this region who have
been made to erroneously believed that they were “liberated” from their brothers during
the Biafran War.
6.We re-affirm the resolve of the Igbo nation to ensure total oneness and reunification of
every part of Igboland in Rivers and Delta state, not through any conquest by working
in concerted synergy with our brethren located therein
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