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Retrieve Africa



Europe's arbitrary colonial boundaries left Africans carved into countries that did not share their heritage, the consequence of which still troubles Africa today. Most internal conflicts in many African countries are as a result of incompatibilities of various parts joined together in doomed amalgamations, and distortions from the balkanization. Retrace the natural boundaries of indigenous African nations or their pre-colonial groupings and retrieve peace, progress and prosperity.

Details

Publication Date
11/28/2020
Language
English
ISBN
9781716385551
Category
History
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors
By (author): Chukwuma Nweze
 

CONTENTS
* Prologue
1. Original African Concept of Country
2. European Interpretations
3. Cognate and Contiguous Compatibles
4. Balkanization and Colonization
5. Current Absurdities, Consequent Maladies
6. Retrieving Africa
7. The Emerging Real African Countries
* Epilogue






A Festival of Delusions




Genre - Drama

Product Details

ISBN
9780359815500
Copyright
C. C. Nweze (Standard Copyright License)
Publisher
C. C Nweze
Published
July 28, 2019
Language
English
Pages
104
Binding
Perfect-bound Paperback
Interior Ink
Black & white
Weight
0.45 lbs.
Dimensions (inches)
6 wide x 9 tall
Product ID
24190068



                                  





Introduction

Irawo generically means Star. The mythology around Irawo, however, goes beyond this and centers around Shango, the Yoruba god of thunder and lightning. Specifically, all the beliefs can be synthesized into the one which implies that Irawo denotes Shango showing fort a shining stone through the night sky. Irawo’s stone illumines.

True to its name, Irawo City is really a star city. It is one of the most respected cities in Nigeria. In it is located several star institutions, one of which is the University of Irawo. This is the city’s shining stone and the nation’s pride.
  
Lecturers, students and other people associated with the university feel great delight in being part of a most respected institution that is eminently living up to the meaning of its full name and being Nigeria’s finest.

How was it that such a mad cattle carnival did take place in this great citadel renowned for outstanding formation and unrivalled academic excellence?

Two lovers were full of most brilliant dreams – star students to star couple – but were miserably caught in that mesh of epic absurdities. This unfortunate part of the fiction is based on a real life event of  a not very far history. 

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      Acknowledgement
This is an upgrade of a1979 script which was written for Television Drama. It was performed by the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Enugu Drama Group headed by Emmanuel Obegu - at the Nigeria Television Service (NTV) Enugu, 1979, 1980. The group also performed my second script, “Screams”, at NTV Enugu, in 1980. The original script is not easily recognizable in this work, it seems, having been totally edited to reflect the realities of a different century in which the story is now situated. More scenes and more characters have been included and the story has been modified. That love story has been woven into another interesting plot, a story which, although also fiction, is based on an adverse true life incident that happened, sometime in 1976, in a prominent Nigerian university.         
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BIAFRA FEDERATION




Published August 2, 2018
Language: English
Pages: 112
Binding: Perfect-bound Paperback
Interior Ink: Full color
Weight: 0.61 lbs.
Dimensions (inches): 6 wide x 9 tall

Chapters

  • Prologue
  • Before Destruction                                
  • Destruction
  • Retrieval
  • Federation of Champions
  • Center of the World
  • Government 
  • Epilogue    
                                                                                                              BIAFRA FEDERATION 


Excerpts

Retrieving our African borders is what is at issue here. This can be done by getting leaders of the component nations to understand that Biafra Kingdom is their bona fide homeland that was destroyed to create their smaller countries, effacing their common great name - - -

Biafra Federation shall consist of Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon and West Biafra (Eastern Nigeria). This is a formidable union that will perfectly retrieve the glorious Biafra Kingdom in its modern format, the Biafra Federation. Biafra Empire, Biafra Kingdom and now, Biafra Federation, are one and the same in content and extent - - -

 The names, “Cameroon” and “Gabon” need not be changed. Equatorial Guinea is the very appropriate name the people gave to themselves, which replaced their colonial name. What is an important fact is that these four units existed inside Biafra Kingdom and that Biafra is their bona fide and default homeland. They only need to be part of a federated union of independent states, the united states of a Biafra Federation - - -



From the Epilogue:

Chief Frank Opigo, an Ijaw man from Yenagoa, threw in the suggestion that immediately struck the right cord. It resonated like they all started saying, “Hey, we should have known that. What were we all thinking, looking for a name for our country while the name for our country has been right here looking at us? Of course, this is Biafra homeland!”

I wish I would not be overrating myself by thinking someone in Biafra homeland who never saw himself as a Biafran is now similarly saying “Hey, I should have known that. What was I really thinking, pointing elsewhere at Biafra? Of course this is Biafra homeland! And Biafra is our great common identity”.     



SEEKING



Intricacies of the human psyche baffle greatly many times. It is difficult at such times to understand the motivating factors for certain behaviours when considered by rational minds. “Seek and ye shall find” says the scripture (cf. Matt. 7: 7), and this implies that people get what they seek. Derailments often happen to the not very circumspect seekers and the not very knowledgeable seekers.
  • “None is poor O Bhikha. Everyone’s got rubies in his bundle. But he doth not know how to untie the knots, and so he is a pauper” - Bhikha
  • Creation is naturally full of questions begging to be asked and is also naturally full of answers begging to be discovered
  • “Stop searching, little fish. There isn’t anything to look for. All you have to do is look” – Fr Anthony  DeMelo
  • A bird whose skull is not certified ‘strong’ should not dare engage in a fight with the woodpecker.
The thrust of this special discourse is on one endeavor that is necessarily undertaken by every human being – Seeking. Seeking the Deity (cf. Acts 17: 26-28) is what this is all about. Can a person seeking God find something else?
Seeking can be dicey, so too can be lack of knowledge. This guide, therefore, comes handy to make a hearty offer, vitally equipped.


Chapters

  • “From One Single Principle”
  • Lack of Knowledge
  • The Desire
  • The Template
  • The Pardes Experience
  • Altruism
  • The Master Appears 
  • The Heart in The Kingdom of God 
  • Suffering 
  • The Ultimate Destination



 

RUMBLES FROM SERENE HEIGHTS 






This is a special poetry collection with an unusual presentation: Straight compartmentalization into five categories. It is hoped that this categorization will help readers enjoy the book much more. 

A poem should possess a discernible usefulness: informing, instructing, entertaining, admonishing, approving, praising and inspiring, among other useful features. 
Many poems are like abstract painting in regard and usefulness. In the following pieces will be seen paintings in true colour and perceptible imageries of various appeals, in accordance with my feelings in diverse issues, which I hope will offer you valuable gifts. Salvatore Quasimodo says that “Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.” The hope is that so will these presentations also be.


Articles in My Basket

 

Overture ------------------------------3

 

1. Unreal Realities------------------11

Celestial Strings 12      
Desiccation in Purgation 14
Down the Abyss 15
That Lingering Doubt 16
Eva! 19

2. On Love and Relationships---21

Kristie at Newton 22
Should Have Been Calista 24
Dora Fever 26
That Feel 27
Hurricane 28
Essential Essence 30
Allure 31
Lost in the Loft 32     

3. Tributes---------------------------34

A Story of a Life 35
A Sage of Our Age 37
A Great New Year Surprise 39
49 Moorehouse Street 40
Ronke Odutee 42
Plume Aloft 44
The Glorious Chat 45
Cynosure 48
Ochilu-Ozuo 49
Felicitations from Ugwuoma 50
Divine Property 51

4. Under the African Sky--------53

Beauty Pageant 54
Happy Cross Over 56
Chiesonu 57
Moremi 59
Divine Emissaries 60
Ekube 62
Entrancing 63
Ifa 65
Okuke 67
Olurombi 69
Ovuegbe Appears 71
Oduduwa 73
Enyi Biafra 74   

5. This, This, and That-----------75

Counting Up, Counting Down 76
Passing Away 78
The Cling 80
Forgive and Heal 82
Happy Christmas 86
The Smile 89
Class? 91
Precious Assurance 92
Cabal! 93
Laughable Paradox 94
That Day Shall Come 95
Ugwuoma Connection 96

Coda--------------------------------------97

 

 * The book has an ornamented version (its covers displayed here) and a plain version (its table of contents displayed here - as "Articles in My Basket")






RANDOM REFLECTIONS - INTERROGATION OF FAITH





Man living in history (time and space) is not equipped to fully understand the nature of God who lives in eternity. Eternity is all-pervading, it seems, history still being part of it, and so God’s nature is appreciable in our realm to an unimaginable extent. 

If you decide to be a disciple of Jesus Christ prepare yourself for a great ordeal. Does it mean that you will be free of difficulties if you are not his disciple? Certainly, the terrain of discipleship is very rugged. But - - - 

Is it not difficult to understand why this divergent conversation in the US should exist at all? Pro-life or Pro-choice, what is sin is sin, what is bad is wrong. “Sin” separates the two Parties in a “Country Under God”. 

“Forgive and forget” has become a common parlance. Can Forgive, Cannot Forget? The nature and direction of a contextual exactness here is largely not grasped

And much more


Chapters
  • Discipleship and Salvation: Sniffing the Terrain 
  •  The Concept of God
  •  Can Forgive, Cannot Forget? 
  •  Hypochondriasis: Stealing Life from Youth
  •  US Democrats and Republicans: The Difference is Sin
  • Since I am a Virgin
  •  Values and Medical Practice
  •  This Kingdom of God: Reflections on Mark 1: 15
  •  Service and Sainthood
  •  Resurrection: A Blessed Assurance 



RANDOM REFLECTIONS - GOD OF INSIGHT




Scientists have been working very hard to find the edge of the universe and determine the size of the universe. Will they ever succeed? 

Many of the people beating their chests now and boldly proclaiming or insinuating they are sure of going to Heaven may not be found there. This is because things are not always the way they seem. Three surprises await you in heaven – if you get there. 

Someone said: “However, I think to say there is no middle ground is incorrect. Even when I firmly denounce an action such as murder, I recognize that in addition to possibly supporting the action someone could hold a more moderate position and neither firmly support nor firmly denounce an action”. Right to Life is on trial. 

Know also that the gifts of the Holy Spirit are many and it is necessary you try and discover the gifts you already have and utilize them for the benefit of the Church and the society. To be discouraged is this present obsession for tongues, and the corrupting of tonguing

And much more


Chapters
  • World Without End 
  •  Reincarnation: Spirit of the Belief in Our Clime
  • The State of Purgatory
  •  Perfection
  •  Questions on Abortion and Right to Life
  •  Mary in the Ministry
  • Tonguing
  •  Abiding 
  •  The Nativity of the Christ
  •  What Only God Can Do 


BIAFRA - OUR DEFAULT HOMELAND




BIAFRA: Our Default Homeland is a book expected to be vitally beneficial to all Nigerians from the North, the West and the East as well as many other non-Nigerians. It is, however, designed for persons who are comfortable with raw truth 

There is no homeland that centrally belongs to all the nationalities in the Eastern Region except Biafra. Biafra is one of the three homelands that can be traced to history as comprising the exact area now known as Nigeria. The other two are Zanfara and Benin. This can be seen in maps available in as early as 1584. 

Historical Geography starting from the 16th century to the present is presented and analyzed to show that Biafra is our bona fide identity and that we are Biafrans by default and should be so known and referred even as we remain part of Nigeria as a federation.


Chapters
  • The Bona Fide Homeland
  • Historical Geography
  • The Present
  • Identification with Heritage
  • The Nigerian Identity
  • Biafra and Politics
  • The Future


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Kenneth Dike Library University of Ibadan



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