Nigeria’s Nobel Prize-winning writer Wole Soyinka thinks the country’s battle with secession has not ended, but the methods have changed.

Today, most Nigerians know better. Biafra has not been defeated. If anyone was left in any doubt about this, the last work of my late colleague, Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country, has left us re-thinking. New generation writers, born long after that brutal war, have inherited and continue to propagate the Biafran doctrine, an article of faith among the Igbo populace, even among those who pay lip-service to a united nation. Millions remain sworn to uphold it. Many have died at the hands of the police and the military as succeeding guardians of that legacy troop out to reclaim it in defiant manifestations. Amnesty International estimated that at least 150 pro-Biafra activists have been killed since August 2015. Some of their leaders, including the director of their official mouthpiece, Radio Biafra, remain on trial for alleged subversion and treason. Others have gone underground.

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The will of Almighty God will surely previal, biafra is one of them

A storm is coming....

They will be crushed again

Division is the surest way out of the present mess.

There's no guarantee restructuring will succeed nor work cos those 'hegemons' up north won't allow a fair / just country for all.

Only demented loafer will believe Biafra is no longer a viable entity. The Republic f Igbo land or Biafra must come to pass.

Thr historians should've told 'em about how 3million useless Igbos lost thr very filthy swine souls for nothing

Had the three Rs [Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Reconciliation] been faithfully implemented after the war. There would have been little or no need for any agitation now

The civil has reached Benue, too bad, we are not fighting back yet.
once we fight back, then Nigerian soldiers will come to maintain stupid peace.

youngG10:
Thr historians should've told 'em about how 3million useless Igbos lost thr very filthy swine souls for nothing

It is quite unfortunate that diabolical being like you would want live in the same country with filthy swine....this clearly show how dirty you are... You must be worst than a filthy swine to dinne and live in the same country filthy swine

youngG10:
Thr historians should've told 'em about how 3million useless Igbos lost thr very filthy swine souls for nothing

statements like this is the reason why IPOB keeps getting popular . you just proved Nnamdi kanu that nigeria is a zoo filled with wild animals including you .

everyone is a victim

Some comments from the so called fellow Nigerians confirm the fact that Nigeria urgently needs to be divided. Let the different ethnic groups go their separate ways.

-Ofcos. Take a trip to Biafraland and see military check-points for yourself, among other things too numerous to mention.
-But the restoration of Biafra is no longer "if" but "when".

-"The Igbos are bearing the burden that rightly belongs to all who sought progress for Nigeria" - Peter Enahoro (Late Anthony Enahoro's brother).

Avoid anybody telling you Biafra won't be a reality because such iddiotts is more dangerous than snake for hate telling you the truth.

I find HausaFulani to be very intolerant.

I find Yoruba to be very tribalistic.

I find Igbos to be goal getters, they are always pursuing an interest.

The three of them have no business being in the same country.

Bari22:
They will be crushed again

Mr man, do your research, there is no country in the world that has ever fought two civil war and is still together. I am not Igbo but one thing is for sure, if Nigeria fights another civil war, she will definitely be divided.

youngG10:
Thr historians should've told 'em about how 3million useless Igbos lost thr very filthy swine souls for nothing

I am not Igbo but please, have some respect for the dead, what do you mean by "useless Igbos". You sound very very childish. How useful do you think you are, it seem you are feeling proud over nothing, there are hundreds of prominent and popular people all over the world and you are not one of them, nobody knows you, even in Nigeria, so I advise you to keep quiet and think twice before you call someone useless. You are just another black man in Africa, not better than the people you refer to as useless.

This afonja occultist idi.ot again

youngG10:
Thr historians should've told 'em about how 3million useless Igbos lost thr very filthy swine souls for nothing

You just prove Ben Bruce right.

Some goats are better than humans.

youngG10:
Thr historians should've told 'em about how 3million useless Igbos lost thr very filthy swine souls for nothing

Meaningless comment like yours makes no difference in the face of prof. Soyinka's submission. I wish threats like the one handed down by the US president (Donald Trump) to North Korea would have halted their military expansionist ambition. But the reverse was the case because, words like yours, does not deter a people convinced about what they want; but rather emboldens them: (whether they go about it the right or wrong way). Diplomacy is the only antidote to situational crisis like these and failure to employ conflict resolution techniques would ultimately spell doom. Ask Britain, and France if their threat to declare war on Germany if she attacks Poland deterred Hitler from going ahead with invading it not minding the number of Germans who perished in WW1!

aolawale025:
Had the three Rs [Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Reconciliation] been faithfully implemented after the war. There would have been little or no need for any agitation now

Absolutely!