IGBOS TEND TO UNCONSCIOUSLY ASK OTHER PEOPLE TO HATE AND ATTACK THEM BY PREENDING TO BE SUPERIOR TO THEM

By Ozodi Osuji

Reference South Africans’ current attacks on them and asking them to pack up and leavetheir country!

As a result of black Americans’ 1960s struggle for inclusion in the USA, American universities created what they called black studies programs. They hired those with PhD’s in the social sciences to teach in these new academic departments. 

Since some Igbos had PhDs, even though they had not participated in the black Americans’ struggle for racial equality, they were hired by the incipient black studies programs.
Instead of joining black Americans in their struggle for racial inclusion, they brought their delusion disorder, their eternal sense of inferiority, and compensatory desire for superiority. Instead of rolling up their sleeves and joining the fight for racial equality, they tried to prove that they were superior to all black people.
Yes, they attempted to seem superior to black Americans (by the way, over 30% of black Americans are Igbos; Igbos zealously captured themselves and sold themselves into slavery, hence they are overrepresented in the slave populations of the New World).
They would talk about how they are extremely hardworking and that black Americans are lazy. Yes, they denigrated those who fought and died for them to be given jobs. Naturally, black Americans hated them and booted them out of black studies. These days, you seldom find Igbos teaching at black studies or African studies programs at American universities; they are perceived as insane, deluded folk who are always trying to seem superior to other black people.
When folks get rid of them, they claim that they are hated because they work hard and are more successful than other black folks.

That is all that Igbos are known for: struggling to seem superior to their shadow selves. The funny part of it all is that despite their silly effort to seem superior to other black people, they score exactly as other black people on IQ tests and standardized entrance examinations to go to universities.
The average black person’s IQ is 85 (and that is the Igbo average IQ on the WAIS, WISC, and Stanford -Binet).
The average IQ of white folks is 100.
The average IQ for Asians is 115. This means that both whites and Asians score higher than black people and Igbos (is it any surprise that Asians are doing well, taking over academia and the world’s economy!).
On the Scholastic Aptitude Test, SAT, given to kids applying to go to American universities, Igbos’ average score is exactly the average score of other Africans and black folks, 960 (out of a total of 1600 points).
The average score for whites is 1150; the average score for Asians is 1250.

The top twenty-five American universities will not look at your application if your score is not at least 1450 out of 1600. You are not going to be admitted by Harvard, Princeton, Yale, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Columbia, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, and the other members of the top twenty-five US Universities (the USA has over 4000 universities and colleges).
The point is that Igbos score as low as other people from Africa and black America, so their sense of superiority is based on fiction, hence they are deluded!

Of course, a few Igbos, just as a few Yorubas and black folks, score high enough to be admitted to America’s top universities, but Igbos do not do better than other Africans and black Americans in this regard.
Therefore, the Igbos’ continued sense of superiority is, at best, amusing and, worse, a product of mental disorder because it is based on a fictional belief about themselves, not reality.
They say that they work hard and are successful. I ask, successful in exactly what areas? Has an Igbo person won a Nobel Prize in physics, chemistry, biology, or medicine? Of course not.

They trade and make chump change from trading and are actually not as successful as Yorubas and Hausas in the trading business, but they tend to delude themselves into believing that just because they made chump change, they are extraordinarily successful.
We need to figure out a way to heal the Igbos mass psychosis, their delusional disorder, Folie à Deux, because if not healed, they will keep making those around them hate them and attack them as they are now doing in South Africa.

In South Africa, they call the local black folks lazy and claim to work harder than them, saying that if they were locals, they would all be billionaires. They forget the impact of apartheid on the local blacks; racism instilled self-doubt in them.
Even the chump change they make is mostly made from illegal activities, such as selling drugs and pimping South African women for money. They are totally amoral in their approach to making money and will use you to make money. When their amorality catches up with them, they claim not to have known what they did; they caught and sold their people into slavery and now claim that they did not know that those who spoke the same language as them that they captured and sold into slavery are related to them.

Nothing is ever their fault, they claim. (In his autobiography, Olaudah Equiano claimed that he was captured and sold into slavery by those who spoke the same language as he, so if he was an Igbo, he was captured and sold by Igbos; but Igbos like to claim him as one of their own because he is the first black African to have written a book in the late eighteenth century, but deny that they sold him into slavery).
Only a few months ago, another deluded Igbo in Ghana claimed to be the Igbo king of Ghana, and Ghanaians went on a warpath, asking Igbos to leave.
Now they are doing the same thing in East London, South Africa; one of their riffraff is claiming to be the Igbo king of South Africa, and South Africans are up in arms, burning their businesses and asking them to pack up and leave their country.
In Northern Nigeria, Igbos were known to look down on Hausas, claiming to be superior and calling Hausas lazy, and when Hausas had had enough of their put-downs, they brought out their knives and started killing them.

Igbos never learn and stop putting folks down. Put a human being down, and he wants to kill you. Ordinarily, the nature of existence makes people doubt their worth, and they prefer that you respect them, but instead of respecting people, Igbos always find a way to put them down, exacerbating their existential sense of worthlessness; hence, people hate them and kill them.
They do not learn from their tragic history and repeat the mistake of putting people down, over and over again; they are always calling people denigrating names (watch for the insulting names they will call me for telling them the truth).
They say that mental illness is doing the same thing and getting the same results and expecting different results.

If you put people down, they will hate and attack you, but you expect them to see you as superior to them when you put them down because you are unrealistic, hence mentally ill.
People like you if you respect them and hate you if you disrespect them.
In the USA, you are going to have to hide your Igbo identity to be given a good job because most employers know that Igbos are boastful idiots who, instead of being productive, only seek opportunities to brag about how they are the most intelligent Africans (even though test results do not prove it); additionally, they tend to steal from their American employers or cook their books.
Many Igbos are psychologically impaired and need to be given long-term psychotherapy, have their swollen egos shrunk down so that they stop disturbing social peace with their false claims of superiority.
All human beings, black and white, men and women, are the same and equal (those who do better, such as Asians, have four thousand years of doing examinations and learning at formal schools, whereas Africans’ entry into formal education is less than two hundred years old; Asians have a culture of learning and taking examinations hence do better at schools and education, not because they are genetically superior to any one else).

I have made these points elsewhere and really do not want to keep repeating myself, over and over again. Igbos must stop their madness of trying to seem superior to other people; no human being is superior to others.
Imagine going to another man’s country and claiming to be a king. Igbo people did not even have kings, and it took a white man, Frederick Lugard, to create warrant chiefs for them, and now they associate the chief as a powerful figure, even though they have no power.
If they have few chump changes, they feel important and want to be king, king of who, exactly? Where is their kingdom, their military that they use to control that kingdom?
These people are amusing, and it is about time we told them to knock it off. They are no longer amusing; they are stupid.
Nobody wants to tell them that they are stupid; I do not engage in political correctness and will say the truth, even if you do not like me for saying it.
I have had enough troublesome Igbos. All they need to do is love themselves in an unconditionally positive manner, not conditional acceptance, only when they think that they have become rich; love and respect all people, and their lives become more peaceful and happier.

They do not need to be ginning up social conflict wherever they go, just because of their mental illness of trying to seem superior to their shadows.

DISCUSSION

This is not an academic paper but mere feedback to an African group with a tendency to be full of themselves. Let me nevertheless say that all human beings initially feel inferior and compensate with a desire for superiority (see Alfred Adler, The Neurotic Constitution, 1921). This is called neurosis (now called personality disorders, such as paranoid, avoidant, dependent, obsessive compulsive, passive aggressive, narcissistic, histrionic, borderline, and antisocial personality disorders).
People grow up, mature, and learn from personal experience that all people are the same and give up the infantile desire for superiority.

Civilization aims at helping all people to see themselves as equals and respect each other.
Savages, on the other hand, retain the primitive desire to seem superior to others and, in the process, create conflicts; hence, they are always at war with each other.
The point is that other people do what Igbos do, but not as excessively as Igbos do it. In some writings, I explored why Igbos got stuck with the overutilization of the primitive defense mechanism of compensation. I rooted it in their primitive society that did not have elaborate social and bureaucratic hierarchies that ambitious folks could climb and, in doing so, gratify their desire for social and existential significance by being given top social positions.

In Igbo villages, most people are essentially the same, all ignorant class, no sophisticated class, no philosophers, no powerful and wealthy people, so every Igbo kid thinks that by his own power he can become godlike, and now king.
I understand what they are doing, but since it creates conflicts for them, they ought to learn to moderate it.
No human being can completely give up the desire for importance and still live on earth, but relatively mature people moderate their desire for importance and worth.

Aristotle said that an unexamined life is not worth living. Part of the benefit of examining your life is understanding your personality profile and moderating its raw aspects.
Savages just do whatever they feel like doing, such as tell themselves that they are superior to other people, unaware that it is a cardinal sin to tell another person that you are superior to him, because that makes him feel justified in killing you, and since you are not invincible, any human being can kill you if he so desires.
South Africans can dispatch the silly Igbo king to whatever primitive god told him to seek stupid superiority over other people.
I must stop because I do not want to make this essay excessively cerebral. My audience is the ordinary person on the street.

CONCLUSION

Peter Obi is running to become the next Nigerian president. If he wants to be voted for by non-Igbo Nigerians, he has to ask his fellow Igbos to respect other Nigerians. If Igbos keep insulting other Nigerians, they will not vote for him. People vote for the person who elevates their self-esteem, not a person who lowers it.

Ozodi Osuji
March 31, 2026