Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has called on the Nigerian government to be
cautious in dealing with the recent Pro-Biafrans agitations. Soyinka
made the call during a recent interview with Channels TV
"I wrote an article during the war that Biafra cannot be defeated.
People misunderstood what I was saying.
Once an idea has taken hold, you cannot destroy that idea. You may
destroy the people, the carriers of that idea on the battle field but
ultimately it’s not the end of the story.
Let’s not take this position of ‘don’t even talk
about it’, ‘under my watch this will never happen’, don’t say things
like that. Go into that environment and ask ‘what is it that we can do
to make you happy and feel part of this entity?’ Listen to some other
Biafrans and ask them why they want to stay (and say) ‘this is what we
are ready to push as the overall authority in this area’. Don’t go
around saying ‘the sovereignty of the country is indivisible, it’s
non-negotiable’ all that kind of language will only make matters worse,”
he said.
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