{"id":14868,"date":"2013-06-26T18:56:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T17:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=14868"},"modified":"2013-06-26T18:56:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T17:56:16","slug":"igbo-vs-yoruba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/igbo-vs-yoruba\/","title":{"rendered":"Igbo Vs. Yoruba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Michael Egbejumi-David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another 419 practitioner contacted me via my Netlog account today.\u00a0 Like most people, I have become used to getting loads of 419 solicitations through my email.\u00a0 But lately, the 419 boys have invaded my social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc) accounts.<\/p>\n<p>It is becoming quite common now to get 419 messages from some \u2018friends\u2019 on my friends-lists.\u00a0 These people have ruined my enjoyment of social media.\u00a0 There was one such message I recently got from a \u2018friend\u2019 on LinkedIn.\u00a0 The chap calls himself a Pastor.\u00a0 I was so disgusted I was compelled to respond to him.\u00a0 I informed him that he and other 419 email peddlers\u2019 contribution to modern technology is in its ruination.\u00a0 These people are spoiling my delight, and curtailing my full participation on most social media.<\/p>\n<p>Regrettably, some Nigerian commentators \u2013 specifically, Igbo and Yoruba tribal warriors &#8211; are also beginning to wreck my enjoyment of Saharareporters and other Nigerian internet-based discussion forums.<\/p>\n<p>Every other article, every other published interview is invariably reduced to an Igbo vs. Yoruba tribal cleavage, even when it is clear that most of the jingoists are completely out of their depth as regards the matter under discourse, or have not much clue as to what the referenced written piece is about.<\/p>\n<p>Really, it doesn\u2019t matter what the subject matter is; sooner or later, the Igbo and Yoruba tribal warriors arrive and pollute the whole place.<\/p>\n<p>It could be a write-up on the dearth of rainfall on the Appalachian Mountains; before you know it, the whole matter would degenerate into an Igbo vs. Yoruba mudsling.\u00a0 A dishevelled Yoruba commentator would limp in and might weigh-in with a post that the rainfall in Yoruba land is better than what obtains in the Southeast, or vice versa.\u00a0 Before very long, inelegant and sophomoric insults are being lobbed between the tribal warriors.\u00a0 A proper analysis, a sensible\/enjoyable discussion of the write-up is completely derailed.\u00a0 This has become the unfortunate pattern.<\/p>\n<p>The goal sometimes appears to be to see who can spill the most bile, who can be the most uncouth.\u00a0 Often, anonymous nincompoops will unleash crude insults and unintelligent diatribe at redoubtable persons who have over many years made great names for themselves and have brought accolade to the country through their hard work, talent and abilities.\u00a0 Some of these tribal maulers take perverse delight in hauling abuse at illustrious men and women and other high-achievers &#8211; persons to whom they could ordinarily not hold a candle; persons they cannot carry their sandals or even jockstrap \u2013 before turning the vitriol on themselves.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure, but it does appear that most of the tribal warlords are domiciled outside Nigeria.\u00a0 And I don\u2019t quite know what effect that very fact has on their psyche.<\/p>\n<p>I often get the impression that the feeling of dislike between the two groups is fairly deep and I\u2019m not even certain of the genesis of such hatred, such bile.\u00a0 However, a lot of the combatants tend to reference the civil war of 1967, Awolowo, and starved children.\u00a0 Other times, it appears the animus might also be rooted in the manner Zik and some of his NCNC compatriots got bounced from the leadership of the Western House of Assembly back in 1951.\u00a0 Still, sometimes, it seems the enterprising commercial nature and success of the Igbo is a sore point.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever.\u00a0 But giving the level of venom thrown back and forth between these tribal warlords online, I sometimes wonder whether some of these people might actually deliberately harm each other in real life.\u00a0 It often seems to me that an Igbo worker might deliberately sabotage his Yoruba colleague\u2019s effort at work if the chance presents itself, and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, these two nation-groups are Nigeria\u2019s most dynamic.\u00a0 They are great tribes.\u00a0 They have contributed immensely to our collective development and progress.\u00a0 However, the constant bickering of some of them, their juvenile posturing, their insult-fest, is fouling up our local cyberspace and spoiling the fun for the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, over the years, due to migration and movement, educational pursuit, and the NYSC scheme, there has been, and continues to be a lot of inter-marriage between these two great peoples.\u00a0 But I wonder today what some of the offspring from such union make of the hang-ups of some of their adults who persist in dressing one another in clumsy and garbage tribal stereotypes.\u00a0 I can only imagine the confusion of some of those youngsters.<\/p>\n<p>But the internet tribal warriors are not paying any attention.\u00a0 They revel in their nuisance.\u00a0 They toss about their oxymoronic phrase du jour: \u2018educated illiterate\u2019 like it is candyfloss.\u00a0 All sorts of degenerate stereotypes are hauled at each other to prop-up a warped point of view.\u00a0 Paradoxically, most of them fail to see \u2013 or are too thick to realise that their very action, their utterances are actually injurious to whatever tribal cause or honour they assume they are championing or defending.<\/p>\n<p>And so, just as I have learnt to skip most unknown emails and those unsolicited \u2018kind greetings\u2019 messages I often get on my social media pages, I am beginning to learn to give some Nigerian discussion forums a wide berth because of Igbo\/Yoruba incessant and obnoxious display of tribal pettiness.<\/p>\n<p>Come to order boys, or you are proving right Samuel Jonson when he pronounced that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel\u2026<\/p>\n<p>demdem@hotmail.co.uk<br \/>\nTwitter: demdemdem1<\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n 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  <m:dispDef\/>\n   <m:lMargin m:val=\"0\"\/>\n   <m:rMargin m:val=\"0\"\/>\n   <m:defJc m:val=\"centerGroup\"\/>\n   <m:wrapIndent m:val=\"1440\"\/>\n   <m:intLim m:val=\"subSup\"\/>\n   <m:naryLim m:val=\"undOvr\"\/>\n  <\/m:mathPr><\/w:WordDocument>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\">IGBO vs. YORUBA<\/span><\/b><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\">By Michael Egbejumi-David<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"pcrstb-wrap\"><table class=\"MsoNormalTable\" style=\"width: 100.0%; mso-cellspacing: 0in; mso-padding-alt: 15.0pt 3.75pt 0in 0in;\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;\">\n<td style=\"width: 100.0%; padding: 15.0pt 3.75pt 0in 0in;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"100%\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\">Another 419 practitioner contacted me via my Netlog account today.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Like most people, I have become used to getting loads of 419 solicitations through my email.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>But lately, the 419 boys have invaded my social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc) accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\">It is becoming quite common now to get 419 messages from some \u2018friends\u2019 on my friends-lists.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>These people have ruined my enjoyment of social media.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>There was one such message I recently got from a \u2018friend\u2019 on LinkedIn.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The chap calls himself a Pastor.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>I was so disgusted I was compelled to respond to him.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>I informed him that he and other 419 email peddlers\u2019 contribution to modern technology is in its ruination.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>These people are spoiling my delight, and curtailing my full participation on most social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\">Regrettably, some Nigerian commentators \u2013 specifically, Igbo and Yoruba tribal warriors &#8211; are also beginning to wreck my enjoyment of Saharareporters and other Nigerian internet-based discussion forums.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\">Every other article, every other published interview is invariably reduced to an Igbo vs. Yoruba tribal cleavage, even when it is clear that most of the jingoists are completely out of their depth as regards the matter under discourse, or have not much clue as to what the referenced written piece is about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\">Really, it doesn\u2019t matter what the subject matter is; sooner or later, the Igbo and Yoruba tribal warriors arrive and pollute the whole place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\">It could be a write-up on the dearth of rainfall on the Appalachian Mountains; before you know it, the whole matter would degenerate into an Igbo vs. Yoruba mudsling.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>A dishevelled Yoruba commentator would limp in and might weigh-in with a post that the rainfall in Yoruba land is better than what obtains in the Southeast, or vice versa.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Before very long, inelegant and sophomoric insults are being lobbed between the tribal warriors.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>A proper analysis, a sensible\/enjoyable discussion of the write-up is completely derailed.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>This has become the unfortunate pattern.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\">The goal sometimes appears to be to see who can spill the most bile, who can be the most uncouth.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Often, anonymous nincompoops will unleash crude insults and unintelligent diatribe at redoubtable persons who have over many years made great names for themselves and have brought accolade to the country through their hard work, talent and abilities.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Some of these tribal maulers take perverse delight in hauling abuse at illustrious men and women and other high-achievers &#8211; persons to whom they could ordinarily not hold a candle; persons they cannot carry their sandals or even jockstrap \u2013 before turning the vitriol on themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\">I\u2019m not sure, but it does appear that most of the tribal warlords are domiciled outside Nigeria.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>And I don\u2019t quite know what effect that very fact has on their psyche.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\">I often get the impression that the feeling of dislike between the two groups is fairly deep and I\u2019m not even certain of the genesis of such hatred, such bile.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>However, a lot of the combatants tend to reference the civil war of 1967, Awolowo, and starved children.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Other times, it appears the animus might also be rooted in the manner Zik and some of his NCNC compatriots got bounced from the leadership of the Western House of Assembly back in 1951.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Still, sometimes, it seems the enterprising commercial nature and success of the Igbo is a sore point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\">Whatever.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>But giving the level of venom thrown back and forth between these tribal warlords online, I sometimes wonder whether some of these people might actually deliberately harm each other in real life.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>It often seems to me that an Igbo worker might deliberately sabotage his Yoruba colleague\u2019s effort at work if the chance presents itself, and vice versa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\">Ironically, these two nation-groups are Nigeria\u2019s most dynamic.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They are great tribes.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They have contributed immensely to our collective development and progress.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>However, the constant bickering of some of them, their juvenile posturing, their insult-fest, is fouling up our local cyberspace and spoiling the fun for the rest of us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\">Moreover, over the years, due to migration and movement, educational pursuit, and the NYSC scheme, there has been, and continues to be a lot of inter-marriage between these two great peoples.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>But I wonder today what some of the offspring from such union make of the hang-ups of some of their adults who persist in dressing one another in clumsy and garbage tribal stereotypes.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>I can only imagine the confusion of some of those youngsters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\">But the internet tribal warriors are not paying any attention.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They revel in their nuisance.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They toss about their oxymoronic phrase du jour: \u2018educated illiterate\u2019 like it is candyfloss.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>All sorts of degenerate stereotypes are hauled at each other to prop-up a warped point of view.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Paradoxically, most of them fail to see \u2013 or are too thick to realise that their very action, their utterances are actually injurious to whatever tribal cause or honour they assume they are championing or defending.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\">And so, just as I have learnt to skip most unknown emails and those unsolicited \u2018kind greetings\u2019 messages I often get on my social media pages, I am beginning to learn to give some Nigerian discussion forums a wide berth because of Igbo\/Yoruba incessant and obnoxious display of tribal pettiness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\">Come to order boys, or you are proving right Samuel Jonson when he pronounced that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a href=\"mailto:demdem@hotmail.co.uk\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\">demdem@hotmail.co.uk<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\">Twitter: demdemdem1<span style=\"mso-spacerun: 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