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We've collectively denounced Nigeria for its deprivations and tramplings on our (human rights) free speech, fair/equal access to employmentand, security of our enterprises, individual/collective liberty and safety, including equal rights to other entitlements that other citizens of Nigeria exclusively enjoy.
We felt this is unjust and as such need a Biafra where access to progressive well being and growth are unfeterred. In the struggle for liberation, the inputs of all creatures great and small are sorely needed and encouraged in order to successfully achieve this goal.
The history of mankind guarantees that any society that suppresses and discards the contributions of its women denies itself prosperity. So I ask:
(1) Should the active participation of Biafran women toward Biafra Actualization be any less or different from those of the Biafran men?
(2) Should every Biafran's contribution toward Biafra Actualization goal be equal opportunity contribution?
(3) Should Biafran men continue to conduct the Biafra Actualization affairs as "Good Ol' Boys Club"?
(4) After Biafra actualization, will Biafran women continue to be subjugated as second class citizens?
(5) Will their freedom and entitlements in pursuance of individual happiness, speech, equal access, association, enterprise, etc., be enshrined/guaranteed in the New Biafra?
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You can betcha your life that women in Biafra will be as competent as any gender or sexual orientation in Biafra. We are in the 21st century where oportunity should not be based on gender but competency.During the Biafran Nigeria war, our women were very much involved in all aspects of the war.
If a Biafran woman is willing to drive a farm tractor or fly Cf134 jet fighter, what a heck she should be given that opportunity. I know for sure that Biafra will not impeach any woman for bleaching. That is one's freedom to look however she choses.
I know for facts that Biafran women by comparison to other Nigerian women set the pace in Nigeria when it comes to competing with the old boy network. I know this because, Biafran women are intelligent, graceful, charming, beautiful and gloriously endowed to lead.
I still believe that the BiafraNigeria will be saved by women leadership because Nigerian men have proven to be corrupt and inept, barbaric, bastadized and inefectual to the common man.
Hail Biafra
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My take on this is that New Biafra will be all about MERIT. If a Biafran sister is capable of manning a position, then I don't see why she should be discouraged because she doesn't wear a beard/moustache.
I'm a firm believer in equal Opportunity. I've shuffled around in my time and I have had cause to work with and for members of the opposite sex who know their onions and I've never had any problem giving my loyalty. On the other hand I've worked with some blokes who were "cow boys" and as such couldn't command my respect.
There is equally no gain saying the fact that some ladies climb the corporate ladder not so much as because of what they know but because they are female. I have a problem with that. I may accept such a measure if it is deliberately done to improve a situation, but then again I want to believe that there is no real shortage of capable ladies. No, not in my Biafra.
Mandy, thanks for bringing up this topic. Methinks this is actually the time to start laying all the foundation right from our schools. Way back in 1996, I'd been involved in a youth holiday program and was quite chauffed to realise that here the boys and gals played soccer together among other things. The end result is that the boys learn to respect the gals at a very early stage and so will most likely not think there is anything wrong with a girl holding a position of responsibility.
Personally, I'd like to see our sisters come forward to be counted as the people who have shaped my life the most are women and my papa treated women with love and respect.
So go Mandy go! You have my vote already should you contest for any elective post.
___________________ Awo's political idea was based on the assumption that any town beyond Owo was Igbo or Hausa. Awo was not socialised; he was not a good mixer because he did not have the opportunity, which the secondary school offered. ~TOS Benson, Baba Oba of Lagos
Civilizations that relegated their women to the back burner, and thus failed to tap their potential have developed only marginally.
The new Biafra will not only be a beacon of freedom, but a trailblazer in African cultural renaisance,vis-a-vithe role of women.
Patriarchy is an alien concept to the original African culture, as such must not be allowed to suffocate brilliance, common sense, and the feminine touch or view of administration.
I hope that it will not be so pathetic and artificial as in the western world, where every contribution by a woman is announced as "First woman this...and first woman that.." Which appears rather, to say the least so condescending on the part of western men.
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world! Our women folk will definitely assume their place of pride in the land of freedom where no man is oppressed.
No society can aspire to any meaningful level of self sustaining development without the women folk playing a fundamental role. It gladdens my heart that more of our women are embracing education and are even outgunning their male counter-parts in some Eastern states. I say this for two reasons:
a. It illustrates the progressive nature of our society that women are encouraged to "Be all they can be"
b. Educate a man and you educate an individual; educate a woman and you educate a family and indeed a nation.
You mean cover their faces, hide away in purddah, cook you meals, throw their legs open for you and look after your kids????
Like all your ancient traditions, I hate to say that this one too is occasioned by disgraceful ignorance. The more you send your kids to school, the more you'll have the Benizir Bhutohs and the Jordanian princess whose name I've just forgotten.
___________________ Awo's political idea was based on the assumption that any town beyond Owo was Igbo or Hausa. Awo was not socialised; he was not a good mixer because he did not have the opportunity, which the secondary school offered. ~TOS Benson, Baba Oba of Lagos
It depends on which tradition you are talking about. I had the privilege of passing through quite a few female teachers who found self fulfilment in imparting their knowledge. There was no evidence to show that they were bad home makers and their kids were as well looked after and groomed as any others.
The key word for me is self fulfilment: Every human being should be allowed to be all they can be. Who knows what will happen should the perennially backward North experiment with female leaders? Who knows?
___________________ Awo's political idea was based on the assumption that any town beyond Owo was Igbo or Hausa. Awo was not socialised; he was not a good mixer because he did not have the opportunity, which the secondary school offered. ~TOS Benson, Baba Oba of Lagos
You have spoken encouragingly well. I believe that the key to the success of Biafra Actualization is the active participation of Biafra women during this struggle.
The sidelining and maligning of those Biafran women who have the knowledge, the zeal, the determination, the time, the contacts, and will to dive into the uncharted waters of liberation struggle is detrimental to our cause. I believe that those who seek to exclude Biafra women's needed participation in this struggle are actually against Biafra actualization. They should also be put under serious observation.
Since two heads are better than one and no gender is more gifted than the other, those women who have overcome the ceiling cap conditionings of society, and are discerning enough to participate in this liberation struggle of ours, should not be castigated and sidelined.
Biafra actualization is for all the Biafrans and there will be no Biafra without Biafra women. In this twenty first century; and as Biafra agitates to take its rightful place in the world, there's no better time than now, for those men who fear Biafra women's exercise of their talents and abilities, to come to terms with this reality and embrace the women. The active/vigorous and unrelentless participation of any Biafran woman should be seen as a welcome blessing and encouraged, not as a threat. There should be no room for paranoia or other exhibitions of lack of self esteem. The task of actualizing Biafra is daunting as ever, and Biafra cannot afford dogged egostical distractions. Obstacle is what we encounter when we remove our eyes from the narrow road to Biafra actualization.
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Bature, Your issue is such a basket case that its leaking all over. The islamic cult you were born into has twisted your thinking beyond redemption.
Because your men are genetically lazy and simple minded, they were no challenge to easy induction into islamic cultism. Thus, to maintain this enslavement of your minds, the Arabs forbids you to train your almajiri sons but allow free millet porridge after cult practice. They also allow you to subjugate your girl children by sexually enslaving and paedophiling them from childhood in guise of child-marriage.
Your twisted cultist mind allowed you to believe that after all commission of this evil, including the wanton taking of human lives, that you'll meet the polygamous Mohammed in "paradise". Since the only brain-washed indoctrination you have is that of islamic tradition of men, you have found it impossibly taxing to comprehend that paradise is within your being. Seek first the God inside by implementing God's only commandment which is the universal love of mankind. If you can manage to do a little bit of this, your blind and stuffed head will be opened so that you can behold the glory of God in mankind. And if you do, you will never ever see any woman as your bounty or slave or sex toy. Again, you will never ever take another human being's life at whim.
There you are, you have been twistedly indoctrinated to believing that by having carnal knowledge of your donkeys, horses, other men, and acquiring sexually transmitted disease; and that by seizing and raping a girl in her childhood, will you be cured. How twistedly evil! Look at the pathetic grovelling level you have reduced your Awusa/Fulani womenfolks to!
No imaginary Allah is coming down from any paradise to save you from yourself. You better start with the God inside you which you have driven further down by courting the devil. Afterward, you can rejoin the civilized society.
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It has been proven that girls tend to be more intelligent than boys at earlier stage but as they develop into teen stage the society comes in with division of what roles are for girls and what roles for boys.
There is no doubt in my scientific observation that because of women's biological incapacitation..that is their menstration they tend to be limited with what they can do. However, this point does not have any daint in their intelligence or level of comprehension[e.g Amanda] but temporarily limited in physical ability compared to men, compounded with the role of having babies the society ascribes to them. Our lovely Amanda, whom I'm particularly fasicinated as an eloquent and letter stud in her careful word of words and analysis of issues proves my case. My observation is not conclusive but so far I'm impressed.
Most is man made and the other Biological. The former specifies like Bature, to have babies, cook and clean. While the later is only periodic and short term.
Please note, I used the phrase temporarily limited not a long term effect.However, and in general, despite these scientific facts tend to excel with or without this congenital problem, after all women tend to live longer than men.
It does not prevent them from becoming rocket scientist, medical Doctors,lawyers or forklift drivers. Their role in the society is not solely based on having babies, cook and clean. This is a man made role in a dubious world.
Their role in answer to a particular and curious Bature is not that of multiple child birth, or lesser role to that of a man. And in relationships, it should be based on 50/50 gentlemanly contract between a man and a woman. Equal opportunity to all regardless of gender.Let the individual be given a chance based on merit rather than quota or role playing. It is not healthy in a society.
Hail Baifra
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Bature, You should be ashamed of yourself for thinking that civilized Biafran women should be enslaved by we the men. Let me make this clear to you we are not Northerners neither are we muslims so don't expect us to be lazy, barbaric, uneducated, and ignorant like you fools are. You are a disgrace to all Africans. I was born by an educated woman, former ZC of WAEC who I know you Northern idiots hate. I was born by a woman and I have a great deal of respect for her. My dad is also educated and nothing will make me treat my wife or the women of BIAFRA like the way you guys are treating yours. A woman's role in the world is not just to spread her legs and have children, stay at home everyday without going to school, get slapped and raped everyday by her husband and other muslim men who see her as a sex toy. In Pakistan you have women playing good roles and Allah hasn't dropped a bomb on them so please think like a civilized man. Unfortunately, you are not.
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This website alone proves how dependable our women are. Just see how productive our sister Amanda is. So also is sister Oge Azuka and others. We had one Inyang Olugu in Radio Biafra who spoke and read fluent Yoruba to the Yorubas. She was excellent. Things will even be better in the New Biafra.
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This website which recently came to my knowledge is eloquent testimony of the resilience, bravery and courage of our women. Attributes which shall endure in the land of freedom where no man is oppressed.Women in BiafraPosts: 50 | From: Toronto, Canada | Registered: Mar 2001
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Ukaoha: Thanks for bringing this site to our attention. As a tribute to Lady Biafra and the Biafran women who fought for Biafra, I am highlighting this tribute to Biafran women. Umu Nwanyi Biafra Requires wave player.
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Ukaoha, Thanks for that wonderful site. I've only been able to browse thru it, but it seem very appealing. I'll check it out some more.
Patrick, Thanks for the audio. I'll listen to it more. Now that Biafra Actualization has dawned upon us once again, a more greater role is required of our women for the breezy success of this noble cause.
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The place of our SISTERS in the NEW BIAFRA. Lets look at these issue well.
We should be grateful to God that we have wonderful sisters as mothers, wife and sisters. They are the best around. They endures, forebears, cares, loves, just to point a few.
They are beautiful. Example. In a NYSC camp, the camp commandant does not allow any other lady to cook, only the fair ladies. He was asked he said he believe that they are IGBOs, his reasons they cook well, they are neat. The commandant is from North. Their qualities cannot be exusted easily. They man believes that the dark skin ones are ofe nmanu, the puddahist can't be available. Or do you want to eat tuwo sikanfi?
THE NEW BIAFRA: They will have every right to aspire to any height they wish to aspire.
The only thing will must hold holy is the good morals of our traditions. These will make us the enviable of the world.
There are few bad morals we learnt from the ofe nmanu people and the Western countries we must drop for the Ne Biafra.
There also so culture things we must purge. a. Female circumstition b. The uncivilized way handling a widowhood c. Handling of the orphans d. Displacement of fatherless e. And others.
we can draw agenda now to be enshrined the Biafran constitution.
Our Sisters can be anything they want to be, but still homely.
I just want to educate you a little. What do you call culture in the North? People with orientation? Awua-Fulani lost their tradition to Arab assimulation. What is the traditional name for God in Awusa language?
If you get it, I will send a electronic gift to you so long as the Administrator allows me.
The Arabs brainwashed the Awuas-Fulani, so don't ever raise a comparism. We are in charge of our tradition, no borrowing, no immitation Okay my mallam enemy-friend.
I was in Kaduna in 1996 Kadpoly computerisation. From the Hotel where I was in constitution road, we walked to Durbar hotel at about 10.00 pm. I saw the synagogue of prositutes, just to prove that your puddah is a sheer rubbish.
Leave the Biafrans alone, I know you are interested. We will baptize and Circumcize you. So we can adopt you.
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Bature: It is the North of cause? When a mallam will marry 5 wiives and he can't meet up. What do expect from those women? To hang around for any available man. It used to be in-house before, no open.
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Bature, The origin of the plights of the said prostitutes is islam. It is the enslaving conditioning of otherwise, intelligent females, to the life of prostitution behind bars called puddah. It is also rooted in the libertine encouragement of sexually and morally perverted men to claim multiple little girls as wives in order to despoil and enslave them...physically, sexually, and psychologically.
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All: Whoo boy, here they come again. With sexists like Rudolf who had envisioned that a woman's role as nurse and mother in your Biafran dream, makes your struggle for a Biafran nation-hood a lost cause by every indication.
My question is, based on this very perspective, which Nigerian, among you all, is not a control freak when it comes to dealing with women? Is this not a new millennium? Grow up, guys.
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I think we need more Kema Chikwes in our midst to teach our wife-beating men a good lesson. If Biafra is to survive, women should be given the leading role. We've had enough.
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