Biafra!!! Prof. Wole Soyinka Drops Bombshell To Al-Jazeera-- Reveals Why We Need Biafra
As he celebrates his 82nd birthday,
there are many things we do not know about Nobel Laureate, Professor
Wole Soyinka, here are some of them.
However, there is something we do know. He is Pro-Biafra.
He recently explained why he
supports the struggle of the Igbo people for Biafra. Soyinka said the
Igbo people have been so wronged that they have no choice than to
consider opting out of Nigeria.
While speaking to Al Jazeera,
yesterday, Thursday, July 14, he shed light on his support for Biafra
agitators. “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.” While denying the
accusations that he was a troublemaker, especially in the Biafran
crisis, he also added: “I grew up in certain circumstances being very
conscious politically, in this very Abeokuta; my mother was involved in
the politics, my aunt, Mrs. Funmilayo Ransome Kuti was a leader.
I grew up among political arguments
on issues that concern humanity and I find that basically gravitated
towards recognising the basic worth of human beings. ‘Something I
disagree when they call me a patriot because I don’t agitate on some
certain entity called a nation; I agitate on humanity.” He then went on
to criticise 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.” On Boko Haram and the breakup of Nigeria, he
said ironically, Boko Haram might be part of the reasons Nigeria may
stay together.
Meanwhile, one strange thing about
Wole Soyinka’s house apart from being located in a forest in Abeokuta,
Ogun state is that he does not allow cars past a certain point. There
are other strange things you should know. Read them all here.
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