Friday, 10 September 2010
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Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
Philosophy Description:
General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Ikemba Nnewi, known as Emeka Ojukwu, (born November 4, 1933) was the leader of the state of Biafra in Nigeria (1967–1970), during the Nigerian Civil War, and previously Military Governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria. He is usually referred to in news and other sources just as Ojukwu.
Frederick Forsyth, a friend, wrote a biography about him titled Emeka. It was published in 1982. Ojukwu was also a prototype of anonymous General character in Forsyth's novel The Dogs of War published in 1974.
He was born in Zungeru,the son of Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu (KBE), President of The African Continental Bank, first President of The Nigerian Stock Exchange and a business tycoon who was believed to be Nigeria's first multi-millionaire.Chukwuemeka's name meant "God has done well." He attracted media publicity at a young age. In 1944, the young Ojukwu was briefly imprisoned for assaulting a white British colonial teacher who was humiliating a black woman at King's College in Lagos, an event which generated widespread coverage in local newspapers.He then went on to study in Britain, first at Epsom College, in Surrey and later earned a Masters degree in history at Lincoln College, Oxford University.
Ojukwu decided to enter the military over the objections of his father, who wanted him to study law. He joined the Nigerian military and graduated from the prestigious Sandhurst Military Academy in England. He then became a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army of Nigeria and Military Governor of the oil rich Eastern Region. Following an anti-Igbo/Christian genocidal pogrom in the Muslim Northern Region, Igbo chiefs met at Umuahia in the Eastern Region. They decided to declare the region consisting of the Igbo heartland, the Niger Delta (mostly Ijaw) and the Cross River basin (Efik and Ibibio areas) independent. Ojukwu was chosen by the Igbos to lead the new country and appointed Head of State & General of the Peoples Army, named "Biafra" after the Bight of Biafra.
Despite some early Biafran successes, such as the world famous Abagana ambush in which two divisions of the Nigerian Army were annihilated, the Nigerians slowly gained the upper hand, supported by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union and, tacitly, by the United States. Among the world's major nations, only France and Portugal offered some support to Biafra.
On June 1, 1969, he delivered the Ahiara Declaration, a patriotic speech, in the village of Ahiara.The speech condemned racism and imperialism, and asserted "our inalienable right to self determination". Ojukwu condemned as genocide the actions of Nigeria and the United Kingdom, for completely blockading Biafra without exception for children or other noncombatants.
Ojukwu left Biafra as it collapsed, intending to set up a government in exile. He subsequently lived in Ivory Coast for 13 years. Seeking to bolster his support among Igbos, President Alhaji Shehu Shagari pardoned Ojukwu and allowed him to return to Nigeria in 1980. He joined Shagari's National Party of Nigeria (NPN) and contested the 1983 election for the Senate.
In February of 1994 Ojukwu accepted an invitation to give a speech at the Lagos Law School.
Philosophy Description:
General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Ikemba Nnewi, known as Emeka Ojukwu, (born November 4, 1933) was the leader of the state of Biafra in Nigeria (1967–1970), during the Nigerian Civil War, and previously Military Governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria. He is usually referred to in news and other sources just as Ojukwu.
Frederick Forsyth, a friend, wrote a biography about him titled Emeka. It was published in 1982. Ojukwu was also a prototype of anonymous General character in Forsyth's novel The Dogs of War published in 1974.
He was born in Zungeru,the son of Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu (KBE), President of The African Continental Bank, first President of The Nigerian Stock Exchange and a business tycoon who was believed to be Nigeria's first multi-millionaire.Chukwuemeka's name meant "God has done well." He attracted media publicity at a young age. In 1944, the young Ojukwu was briefly imprisoned for assaulting a white British colonial teacher who was humiliating a black woman at King's College in Lagos, an event which generated widespread coverage in local newspapers.He then went on to study in Britain, first at Epsom College, in Surrey and later earned a Masters degree in history at Lincoln College, Oxford University.
Ojukwu decided to enter the military over the objections of his father, who wanted him to study law. He joined the Nigerian military and graduated from the prestigious Sandhurst Military Academy in England. He then became a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army of Nigeria and Military Governor of the oil rich Eastern Region. Following an anti-Igbo/Christian genocidal pogrom in the Muslim Northern Region, Igbo chiefs met at Umuahia in the Eastern Region. They decided to declare the region consisting of the Igbo heartland, the Niger Delta (mostly Ijaw) and the Cross River basin (Efik and Ibibio areas) independent. Ojukwu was chosen by the Igbos to lead the new country and appointed Head of State & General of the Peoples Army, named "Biafra" after the Bight of Biafra.
Despite some early Biafran successes, such as the world famous Abagana ambush in which two divisions of the Nigerian Army were annihilated, the Nigerians slowly gained the upper hand, supported by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union and, tacitly, by the United States. Among the world's major nations, only France and Portugal offered some support to Biafra.
On June 1, 1969, he delivered the Ahiara Declaration, a patriotic speech, in the village of Ahiara.The speech condemned racism and imperialism, and asserted "our inalienable right to self determination". Ojukwu condemned as genocide the actions of Nigeria and the United Kingdom, for completely blockading Biafra without exception for children or other noncombatants.
Ojukwu left Biafra as it collapsed, intending to set up a government in exile. He subsequently lived in Ivory Coast for 13 years. Seeking to bolster his support among Igbos, President Alhaji Shehu Shagari pardoned Ojukwu and allowed him to return to Nigeria in 1980. He joined Shagari's National Party of Nigeria (NPN) and contested the 1983 election for the Senate.
In February of 1994 Ojukwu accepted an invitation to give a speech at the Lagos Law School.
OUR FLAG AND BRIEF INFORMATION
FULL BOOKS ON BIAFRAN HISTORY
Biafra Newsletter: Ours is a War of Survival, Save Biafrans from Genocide (volume 2 Number 3)
The Biafran Nightmare: The Controversial Role of International Relief Agencies in a War of GenocideThe Nigerian-biafran Bureaucrat: An Account of Life in Biafra And Within Nigeria
The Nigerian-biafran Bureaucrat: An Account of Life in Biafra And Within NigeriaPauline Holt on the Nigerian-Biafran warThe Abagana ambush: The greatest battle of the Nigerian-Biafran War
Who killed Major Nzeogwu?: The untold secret of the Nigerian-Biafran warLife after the fall: Poetry from Nsukka since the Biafran War : presented at the Twenty-third Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association
Nigeria: the Biafran warCivil War in Nigeria;: A personal view. Paul Connett. The Biafran experience. Edward R. Johnson. More deaths than VietnamWhy Biafra?: Aburi, prelude to Biafran tragedy (Worldwide literacy)
The Ahiara declaration: The principles of the Biafran revolution (June 1, 1969) : with the Declaration of Independence, speech before exile, the Cessation ... from exile, and the Biafran national anthemThe philosophy of the Biafran revolution: A call for African originality
Principles of the Biafran revolutionBiafran refugees: Problems of disease prevention and medical care
The African writer and the Biafran cause;: A paper read at a political science seminar, at Makerere University College, Kampala, Uganda, on 25th August, 1968
The Economics of Political Instability: The Nigerian-Biafran War (Westview replica edition)
The world and Nigeria: The diplomatic history of the Biafran War, 1967-1970
BIAFRA
Ezekiel Biafra T-Shirt - Short-Sleeve - Men's Slate, XLHighlights of Atrocities of the Drug War [VHS]Ports of the Slave Trade (Bights of Benin and Biafra): Papers from a Conference of the Centre of Commonwealth Studies, University of Stirling June 1998 (Occasional Papers)
Christmas in Biafra and other poems
The Biafran Nightmare: The Controversial Role of International Relief Agencies in a War of GenocideThe Nigerian-biafran Bureaucrat: An Account of Life in Biafra And Within NigeriaThe Nigerian-biafran Bureaucrat: An Account of Life in Biafra And Within NigeriaPauline Holt on the Nigerian-Biafran warThe Abagana ambush: The greatest battle of the Nigerian-Biafran WarWho killed Major Nzeogwu?: The untold secret of the Nigerian-Biafran warLife after the fall: Poetry from Nsukka since the Biafran War : presented at the Twenty-third Annual Meeting of the African Studies AssociationNigeria: the Biafran warCivil War in Nigeria;: A personal view. Paul Connett. The Biafran experience. Edward R. Johnson. More deaths than VietnamWhy Biafra?: Aburi, prelude to Biafran tragedy (Worldwide literacy)The Ahiara declaration: The principles of the Biafran revolution (June 1, 1969) : with the Declaration of Independence, speech before exile, the Cessation ... from exile, and the Biafran national anthemThe philosophy of the Biafran revolution: A call for African originalityPrinciples of the Biafran revolutionBiafran refugees: Problems of disease prevention and medical careThe African writer and the Biafran cause;: A paper read at a political science seminar, at Makerere University College, Kampala, Uganda, on 25th August, 1968The Economics of Political Instability: The Nigerian-Biafran War (Westview replica edition)The world and Nigeria: The diplomatic history of the Biafran War, 1967-1970BIAFRAEzekiel Biafra T-Shirt - Short-Sleeve - Men's Slate, XLHighlights of Atrocities of the Drug War [VHS]Ports of the Slave Trade (Bights of Benin and Biafra): Papers from a Conference of the Centre of Commonwealth Studies, University of Stirling June 1998 (Occasional Papers)
Christmas in Biafra and other poems
JOIN THE PROGRAM TODAY AND DISCOVER GREAT OPPORTUNITIES
JOIN THE PROGRAM TODAY AND DISCOVER GREAT OPPORTUNITIES - BIAFRA MUST BE ACTUALIZED.
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