Comments on: Biafra: A Recent History

By: Biafra victoria continua

Biafra victoria continua — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:30:34 +0000

I like this historical write up kudos to Naviga. To all Massob Republic of biafra still lives. R.i.p dim chukwuemeka odumegwu ojukwu (ikemba, ezeigbo gburugburu) i ga adi n’ihi na onye ike adighi anwu anwu.

By: Freddy Michitsch

Freddy Michitsch — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:04:34 +0000

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By: grainnerhuad

grainnerhuad — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:11:31 +0000

Thank you, it is so seldom that we get to the meat of African policy at a country by country level, and indeed it is a lesson about what is necessary to hold a country. Brain power is a definate resource but as we are seeing in the U.S. it doesn’t trump numbers.
I am looking forward to the next part.

By: Mary Hunt

Mary Hunt — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:17:11 +0000

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By: Christopher

Christopher — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:12:03 +0000

What we have here is a lesson no newly-formed nation can ignore – brainpower alone will only get you so far against an opponent with superior numbers and connections, thus it’s best to get control of as much brute force and cash as possible to even those odds…

By: karlsie

karlsie — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:37:48 +0000

To Peter: We are the anti-bloggers! It is our mission to walk away from redundancies and back into the rich texture of compositional writing. Welcome aboard! We have only just begun our roller coaster ride into thought, sound, life and imagination.

By: karlsie

karlsie — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:35:01 +0000

The lessons of history are very important, especially when the details become obscured in a one-sided version of complex events. The reconstruction of Vietnam has been detailed so many times, people tend to believe that was our only lesson in foreign involvement; how a giant country lost against a very small and poor one. John F. Kennedy summed up US foreign policy (and the CIA) as an octopus with its tentacles in every aspect of human affairs, ending he wished to God it didn’t exist in an exclusive Times article, just a few months before he was assassinated. He was assassinated and the octopus grew larger and fatter.

I recently tried to look up on the Internet, the policies of President Portillo for an article on how he affected the peso crash. I was very surprised to learn that he had been painted as a scapegoat by the research opinions; that the peso crash was actually the result of a then unstable Mexican Petroleum stock market. I was there. I worked as a translator for a Mexican/American real estate firm. President Portillo emptied the banks of 600 million dollars in US currency and flew out of the country for parts unknown, causing a mad scramble for US securities. The peso dropped from 23 to a dollar, to 5,000 a dollar within a ten year period, and continued to drop until the government abandoned the peso and created the pesote, firmly regulating its value. I’m reminded of Orwell’s 1984; pieces of memory, of history, dropped into the incinerators of forgetting. We are bound to make the same mistakes over and over if we don’t study our history lessons.

By: Astra Navigo (author)

Astra Navigo (author) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:30:04 +0000

Peter:

Thank you, on behalf of all of us. This is more than a ‘blog’; it’s an online e-’zine with some serious writers and editorial management behind it.

As to this article, thank you for reading. Although the story does not have a happy ending, it’s important to remember.

Best,

-Will (“Astra”)

By: Peter Quinn

Peter Quinn — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:59:32 +0000

Hi. I am a long time reader. I wanted to say that I like your blog and the layout.

Peter Quinn