Why we must cry marginalisation by Steve Osuji - ITREALMS

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Steve Osuji in his response to Prof. Obi Nwakanma's recent piece charging Ndigbo to stop lamenting marginalisation, outlines "Why we must cry marginalisation." 

While I agree with ON (Obi Nwakanma) that Igbo as a people must do more and salvage themselves from the overarching morass of underdevelopment, I vehemently disagree that we shouldn't cry marginalisation!

Ala Igbo: Past, present versus marginalisation by Obi Nwakanma - ITREALMS

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And I hear you, bro. But think about it: from 1970- 1979, the generation of the Igbo who had fought and funded the war, were not talking of marginalization. They took on the task of restoration. I remember the story the late Mbazulike Amaechi told me when I once visited him in Ukpor. 

At the end of the war, the Igbo business elite who had been in PH, and whose property had been forcibly acquired by the new government in Rivers state went to Asika to intervene. Asika sat with them and urged them to seek the intervention of the courts and make this a seminal case on the defense of Igbo property rights in Nigeria.