'The Igbo have no superiority mentality, we only have an achievement orientation. Somebody once wrote that the Igbo are a group of people for whom the white man feels inferiority complex. The colonial masters felt inferior to the Igbo people; that tells you the nature of the Igbo. Remember the slave trade. Who were the most difficult people to manage? Instead of going to become slaves, some of them (the Igbo) would rather commit suicide by jumping out of the ship. For an Igbo man, what will he do with life if he does not achieve certain things? It is not superiority feeling; in fact it is inferiority feeling because we keep striving to make money to compete, not with the Yoruba, not with the Hausa, but with ourselves. If you see an Igbo working hard, he is not targeting to outdo anybody from another ethnic group; rather he is competing with his own kinsman, another person from his village, not outsiders.' ==>Dr. Chuks Ezeife
Posted on: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 22:01:27 +0000
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