Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has identified
himself with the agitation for the Republic of Biafra,
stressing that the Igbo people have been brutalized
that they have no choice than to consider opting out of
Nigeria.
The respected playwright in an interview with Al
Jazeera yesterday, stressed that “I don’t agitate on
some certain entity called a nation; I agitate on
humanity.”
His words, “I am very much pro- Biafra because I
recognise that the Igbos have been wronged
desperately.
“They have been brutalised in a way that justifies their
feeling that they were not part of the nation.
“Let me also say this, Biafrans are not entirely innocent
in this affair. They were not, but the unleashing of such
venom, such devastation on them as a people, was
sufficient to justify their decision not to be part of the
nation.
“I was pro-Biafran in the sense that I felt that they
needed justice.”
The Nobel Laureate, while criticising the removal of
History and teaching of the Biafran crisis in schools,
stated that, “Officials do not want to confront their
own history, especially the history in the making of
which they feel uncomfortable but, if you do not
confront your past, you are going to mess up your
future.”
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