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I Am Very Much Pro-Biafra, Because …. – Wole Soyinka

Farouk Mohammed
By Farouk Mohammed
Published: July 15, 2016
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Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has explained why he’s in support of the agitation for Biafra.

Speaking on Aljazeera on Thursday, Soyinka said, ”I am very much pro-Biafra because I recognise that the Igbo 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.”

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He criticised the removal of History and teaching of the Biafran crisis in schools.

“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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