Jackson advocate., 1962-08-25

Time, 'Newsweek', to name {
few, you would see how inso-
lently Anglo-Saxon journalists
have been writing about Nasser
Tubman, Houphouet Boigny,
Bourguiba, Azikiwe, Nkrumah,
Kenyatta, Kaunda, Banda, Nko-
mo, and other African nations
list leaders.
With reference to your latest
diatribe on me and your jaun-
diced speculations on Nigerian
politics., what is your evidence
for suspecting that / am ambi-
tious to return to partisan poll
tics?
Are you so ignorant Of poll
tical science that you do not
know that even in a republic
with a constitutional Head of
State, the President can be
above politics?
Do you think that our journa-
lists are so unacquainted with
the facts of Europe and Ameri-
can history that they cannot
viciously attack your head of
state and leaders, as the British
Press has been doing to US all
these years?
President Tubman of Liberia
visited you Queen recently and
while he was still a guest of
your country, some Of your re-
putable' journalists had the i'm
pudence to make derogatory
comments and derisive remarks
about his person. Is that the
Anglo-Saxon idea of the free
dom of the press? Freedom to
carry on an irresponsible smear
campaign against African lead
ers who will not kowtow to
Anglo-American Imperialism?
We are the older generation
in Nigeria have done our best
to hold on to our British con-
nection and our inflexible faith
in liberal democracy, in spite
Of regular doses of insults and
gibes from the Anglo-Saxon
Press; but / cannot guarantee
that our children will stomach
your continued irreverent atti-
tude towards Africans and their
political leaders.
From 1947 to date, you have
in succession lost India, Burma,
Pakistan, Ceylon, Ghana, Mala-
va, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tan
ganyika, Jamaica, Trinidad,
Uganda, ETC., partly because of
your racial arrogance and social
impertinence, and you will soon
lose the rest Of your African
territories in your so-called
empire. Do these setbacks
mean nothing to the British
Press?
Your Government now pre-
fers European attachment to
Commonwealth conection and it
has now enacted an Immigra-
tion Law to bring home to the
colored races Of Africa and
Asia its contemporary meaning
of Commonwealth. I will
make no comments.
In spite of extreme provoca-
tions by your utterly irrespon-
sible journalists, the Nigerian
Press will not retaliate by be-
ing discourteous either to your
sovereign or to your Prime
Minister in the way and man.
ner your dim-sighted newspap-
ers have been to our political
leaders, if even your Prime
Minister - to use the language
OF Vicky - prefers to jettisor
his crew overheard in order to
save himself.
One final word and | am
done. For many years Now l de.
cided to ignore the tauntings
and scurrilities of the Anglo.
Saxon Press about me and my
role in our struggle for poll.
tical freedom in Nigeria and
was determined to make any
sacrifice required of me in or.
der to live and see my country
free and united.
Whether l have succeeded or
not, history is my witness.
Yet, in spite of their rude
ness, certain ill-bred Anglo-Sax-
or journalists and authors ex.
pect us to be supine when we,
the citizens of free, sovereign
and Independent state, are wan
tonly attacked and they fool
ishly assumed that we shall
continue to respect and honour
their hooIc of e%oxo .J