Writings by Cyril

• FIRST IS LAST
  • Announcing First Is Last
  • Book Chapters
    • Chapter 1
    • THE PREFACE
  • The Bombs on Gaza and Biafra
• GENERAL
  • A Promised Land by Barack Obama: A Review
  • Another Banger
  • Chimamanda And Transgender Controversy
  • Get Your Knee Off My neck For I Can't Breathe and I Want Some Respect
  • John Bolton's Book
  • My Covid-19 Vaccination Experience
  • Prof. Donald Harris: Kamala Harris’ Father
  • The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson: Beyond a Review
• NIGERIA
  • Aladimma: Development Trajectory of Igbo People
  • Another Reason to Go to Mass on Sunday
  • Crisis in the Catholic Church in Ahiara
  • Femi Fani-Kayode: From Hell with Love for Biafra
  • Happy Birthday Gentleman Mike Ejiagha
  • Making Sense Out of Migration
  • Nigeria and Igbo Leaders
  • Nigeria-Politics
    • A Rotational Governing Model for Nigeria
    • A Rotational Governing Model for Nigeria-Slides and Videos
      • Restructuring Nigeria part 1-slides and video
      • Restructuring Nigeria part 2-slides and video
      • Restructuring Nigeria part 3-slides and video
    • A short note one week after a depressing election in Nigeria
    • In Search of an Equitable Political System for Nigeria
    • The Yoruba Vote and Peter Obi
    • Tinubu: the Yorubanisation and Lagoslisation of appointments
  • Professor Soyinka's Lecture at Harvard
  • The Irish Missionaries in Nigeria
  • Trip Reports
    • A 2021 Christmas Trip Report — Part 1
    • A 2021 Christmas Trip Report — Part 2
    • A 2022 Christmas Trip Report
    • A Trip Report
    • Hello From Owerri
    • My Travel Diary – December 2016 to January 2017
    • New Year Mass at Amuvi Arochukwu
    • Notes From Owerri, Nigeria
  • Why Immigrants Work Harder Than Natives
• POLITICS-AMERICA
  • 2018
    • Be Careful What You Ask For
    • Free at Last
    • The Day After
    • The Heat is On
    • The Irony of an Illegitimate Presidency
    • The Lobbing of Missiles into an Empty Airfield
    • The Mayor of San Juan
    • The Most Unprepared American President?
    • The Opportunist President Walking in the Ghost of His Predecessor
    • When a President Fails
    • White House Chief of Staff John Kelly
  • 2019
    • Gordon Sondland and the Fifth
    • Is it Still the Right Call?
    • Lynching Will Not Save Donald Trump
    • The Attack on Saudi Oil Facility
    • The Right Call
    • The SCIF Stunt
    • The Senate Trail of Donald Trump: Will It Ever Happen?
    • The Whistleblower and Impeachment of Donald J. Trump
    • Tribal Politics and 2020 Elections in America
    • Trump’s State of the Union Speech
  • 2020
    • Biden And Black Radio Station — Power 105
    • Coming Out of Mass Angry
    • Donald Trump and The National Prayer Breakfast
    • Donald Trump is Afraid of Life After the Presidency
    • Dr. Susan Rice for the Vice Presidency
    • Should Biden Pardon Trump?
    • The Exit of a Legendary Political Reporter
    • Trump Enablers and the Ballot Box
  • 2021
    • Biden and the Intelligence Surrounding Khashoggi's Death
    • The 2022 Midterm Elections and The Urgency of Now
  • 2022
    • President Biden's short list for the Supreme Court
• TRIBUTES
  • A Tribute to Barbara Bush
  • A Tribute to Gbolabo Ogunsanwo
  • A Tribute to My Eldest Brother
  • A Tribute to My Mother
  • A Tribute to Old Secondary School Colleagues, Vincent Obodoakor and Goddy Oku

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Chapter 1

34 Chukwuani was kind and friendly. The tenants saw themselves as one big family living in a yard. Except for two tenants who moved in recently, others had lived together for almost 30 years. Since they saw themselves as one big family, any parent could correct a child and even administer corporal punishment.

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the preface

I was a teenager when the Nigerian crisis that led to the civil war started in 1966. The aftermath of that war profoundly impacted my life and the lives of the Igbo people of Nigeria.

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