History is never about infinity of time,it's about human activities which give rise to series of interconnected chains of other activities.It's also about junctures,epochs and eras, which though might be interconnected,each however represents their own driving forces. Therefore glacial era of the earth is a geological aspect of natural history. Some arguments are centered around events that occurred after the Nigerian independence which is a distinct historical epoch during which the destiny of Nigeria was placed into the hands of Nigerian political leadership,which they however bungled.

Berlin conference was the jostling by the European powers over the African territories and its people.Africans then,as conquered peoples had no control over their own destinies.
From the colonization of territories which later were amalgamated to become the present Nigeria,people within the territories were virtually helpless.At any event to control the driving force or to influence the directive motive of history the people must possess the political power and social cohesion,efficient administrative organization and dynamic economic system. Between the 18th and 19th centuries African nationalities had been badly devastated by the transatlantic slave trade that there was not a single part of west African sub region that could withstand the invasion of rampaging European imperialists.

Even the so-called cohesive Sokoto Caliphate fell like a pack of cards at the slightest push by the British expeditionary force: from Kano to sokoto, they all went down in capitulation like the ghastly game of falling dominoes. As a conquered people they had no choice over how their conquerors decided to organize their societies; whether as different individual nations or vassalages or as an amalgam of disparate ethnic or racial or religious entities.

Nigeria as a product of conquest is not a lie,it is a historical reality which has endured more than a century. This historical truth is not peculiar to Nigeria, because invariably almost every nation in human history has emerged from this common crucible. In fact no nation currently or in world history has always been there from the beginning of time. Political history had only began with the activities of human beings as social beings. I always wonder why the case of Nigeria should ever be different.

There is nothing sacred about the integrity of a nation except the integrity of its attributes. No nation was created from the beginning of history but it is itself the product of history as much it will be the subject of history. A parallel can be drawn between the life of a human being and a nation going through the process of birth,growth,age,senescence and death.In between are various incidences of abortion,birth defects, accidents,diseases,stunted growth,atrophy,etc.

So for those who think that Nigeria is a special creation which in spite of all its defects nobody should think about opting out without dire consequences must be misreading history.
It is for this reason I find the official attitude towards the new-Biafran movement highly reactionary and the argument in opposition to it extremely arrogant.

It's true nobody chooses to be born in a country of his birth but then a typical post-colonial country like Nigeria, our primordial identity is directly linked to our family through the society and to our ethnic extraction. Incidentally these respective ethnic Nationalities to which most Nigerians individually belong not only preexisted
Imperial dominions but still constitute the basic structural mosaic of the Nigerian state. This ethnic structure represents the basis for much of the political consensus that was reached in drawing up nearly all of Nigerias constitutions.

The protest for Biafra to me is very legitimate if to the extent that there is general consensus amongst most of the constituents within the Biafra territory and there is not coercion or imposition placed on the people of any other distinct autonomous territory within the proposed seceding territory; and so long as it is not advocated through violence.Secession can be achieved through dialogue between the parent country and the seceding territory on how territorial boundary , legal, economic and demographic issues are mutually resolved.

Invariably history has shown that nations break up into several states both peacefully and violently and for this reason the last failed attempt at breaking Nigeria up in the mid sixties and the ensuing civil war that escalated resulting in the deaths of millions of Nigeria is not a good argument against new attempts at breaking Nigeria. President Buhari's declaration of the indivisibility and indissolubility of Nigeria on account of the civil war they are proud to fight to maintain one Nigeria in my view is a cruel and Machiavellian approach to an important National question within the context international human right to self determination.
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Awesome!

@ ozimec, please can you provide the source? The author sounds like one full-scale hell of an intelligent dude!

Makes sense.