The Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has explained why history was terminated from school curriculum in Nigeria.
Soyinka noted that "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"
He said this during an interviewing with Al Jazeera on Saturday.
The respected playwright also expressed why he identified himself with the agitation for the Republic of Biafra, saying that the Igbo people have been brutalized by the Nigeria state and as such they have no choice than to consider opting out of Nigeria.
"I don’t agitate on some certain entity called a nation; I agitate on humanity. I am very much pro- Biafra because I recognise that the Igbos have been wronged desperately." Soyinka said
“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.” he added
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May 02, 2021
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