Unresolved infanticide,genocide,or pogrom do not really age. they continue to require our attention,our questions;our unease. we owe something- more than apology - to the innocent children,women,and men who were massacred as a result of pernicious and fatal policies acted out by the brutal federal government of yakubu gowon and the western allies.
history repeats itself. the menace of boko haram brings to life the conditions that forced the biafrans to secede.
the chickens come home to roost. prof. achebe is an old hand at writing; in there was a country he spills the beans with taste and compassion about intense tribal hatred and evils that men did; which have unfortunately refused to heal.
there could never be a better account of what happened in those dark years- 1966-1970 -in nigeria.