The was confirmed in a statement by the State Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Don Adinuba.
Browsing: Don Adinuba
The Anambra Government says it has resolved the crisis between herdsmen and crop farmers in the Anam community of Anambra West Local Government Area of the state.
In an article published on August 13 2013, in response to the “deportation” of Igbo from Lagos to the South East region, C. Don Adinuba, a prolific writer of Igbo origin, penned the following lines on those we now consider as Igbo education argonauts: “When the Great Zik of Africa returned from the United States in the 1940s with a string of degrees in diverse disciplines, he saw that the Igbo were lagging behind the Yoruba because Igboland is in the hinterland, far removed from the sea through which modernity came to our country. He did not induce in the Igbo a persecution or inferiority complex or demonise the Yoruba, but rather took far-sighted steps to make them leapfrog developmentally. He sent to the United States nine promising Igbo young men, including K. O. Mbadiwe, Nwafor Orizu, Mbonu Ojike and Okechukwu Ikejiani, for further studies, and the ‘Argonauts’ in turn, sent their family members and relatives to the US. This is the genesis of the Igbo dominance of the Nigerian community in the US. A gifted anthropologist, Zik recognized Igbo society thrives on village and town competition. He used the instrumentality of the Igbo State Union to promote the establishment of educational institutions by communities. Thus, ‘in one fantastic burst of energy’, as Chinua Achebe put it, ‘the Igbo wiped out their educational handicap’. By 1965, they had begun to compete with the Yoruba educationally. Meanwhile, Zik had recruited many village primary school teachers with a flair for writing and trained them as journalists on his West Africa Pilot. That’s how the Igbo came into journalism. Emmanuel Obiechina, the eminent professor of sociology of literature, did show in a compelling manner how this development led to the emergence of the first generation of intellectual novels and how the Igbo were in the forefront.