Genevieve Nnaji Says She “Learned A Lot About Our Struggles” From Half Of A Yellow Sun
Genevieve Nnaji Says She “Learned A Lot About Our Struggles” From Half Of A Yellow Sun
When Genevieve Nnaji was in the red chair she talked to George about her role in the film Half of a Yellow Sun.
Based on Chimamanda Ngozi’s book of the same name about the Nigerian-Biafran War from 1967-70, Nnaji said she learned a lot about Nigeria’s past while participating in the film.
Genevieve Nnaji’s interview with George airs…
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Is like this interview was edited.
I really like her voice wow my lovely actress can love her less
She is a sellout. "THE BIAFRA WAR" where millions of people have starved to death because of food blockage in the past six months. One million people. Think about that for a minute. There are almost five thousand Harvard undergraduates. If each one of them died two hundred times, that would be almost a million deaths. Do people also realize that a total number of over 3.6million Igbo's died in that war between 1967 to 1970. The British, Russia, Egypt, and America supported and armed Nigeria to slaughter people who only wanted to be liberated from the injustice and mass killings of their kind before the war. Why is the world mute on this? Because the top dogs who are busy advocating for peace are fully involved. This is mass genocide and my people are not healed from the wound. To make it worst, Boko Haram, an Islamist terrorist group are killing the Igbo's also. The blood of my ancestor shall punish all those involved and their generation to generations shall perish.. All hail #Biafra.. The land of the rising sun.
You weren't greatly involved in the war. You WERE the war.
lol I am from the west
I've always loved this fine young lady.
wow genevieve looks so amazing.. she looks like she about 20 years old
I do not see any embracement; rather I see genuineness and the truth. I never remembered schools incorporating the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War into their teaching/curriculum in the ‘70s or ‘80s in Nigeria. Rather it was kind of an abomination to talk about it for some people. Read books, please, and give her a break. How many of us read books every day? Yes, you may argue that she should know it because it is part of their history, but she answered intelligently by saying that they were shielded from the truth/the horror/"the genocide." This is evidenced in some research, including mine, where I conducted in-depth interviews and a focus group about how the second-generation Igbo (SGI) young adults in the United States construct and negotiate their ethnic and transnational identities. One major theme that emerged was the impact of the Biafran War. The majority of the participants regretted that their parents did not share/tell them about the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War. Some of them (SGIs) had to go and learn about it on their own. The interviewees understood that parents did not want to relive the trauma of the war, which reportedly claimed a quarter of the Igbo people.
In November 2013 in Baltimore during the African Studies Association’s “Roundtable: Chinua Achebe’s There Was a Country: Matters Arising,” a panelist and well-known Nigerian scholar, Dr. Funso Afolayan, revealed that he did not actually know much about the war and its impact because he was a teenager at the time. My point is that it is very important for someone to know his/her history, but it is also important to understand the underlying reasons that may have impacted some people from that. Nnaji was probably implying that she was not born when the war took place and that they were not told the whole story, which agreed with her. We are all ethnocentric by default; therefore, we should revaluate the lens some of us used to perceive her on this issue … To Be Continued.
Genevieve Nnaji How can you say that? we were told, i am 25 i knew about the war so much, cos the situation has not ended, we are war victims, been deported from lagos nigeria in 2013, is that not enough for you to understand your not nigeria? don't do pr and useless your self before your fellow Biafrans. we are Biafran and nothing more. we were ine existence before nigeria was created by fed rick lugard. for their own interest and subjected us to slavery to hausa fulani monsters, beats in human flesh kindly check this to link i will attach on the post. every biafran still cry unto date, and we must restore Biafra watch?v=63MKgg-U5Gs go to youtube slash the link.
La belle Genevieve Nnaji, beautiful and smart!
She is gorgeous
lol Im from the east too