Teacher Wole Soyinka has made sense of that individuals misjudged him when he said “you can never overcome Biafra”, taking note of that it was shortsighted to think he was alluding to the front line.
The Nobel laureate made the explanation in a meeting on Channels television, while answering an inquiry on the Nationwide conflict, fomenters and history.
As per Soyinka, he “was exceptionally frantic for that (the conflict) not to occur. To start with, I thought it was an off-base conflict. No conflict is correct, however this one was especially terrible.”
On his misconstrued remark on Biafra, the unbelievable producer and extremist said: “The Igbo, no inquiry by any means, went through the experience of massacre.
“The memory of such damaging experience hardens, particularly towards their quickness however it can burst out again some other time.
“At the point when I said something that ‘you can never overcome Biafra’, individuals took an exceptionally oversimplified thinking of that. They thought I was simply alluding to the war zone.
“No, I was discussing the thought; that the thought has grabbed hold of a portion of the individuals who don’t have a clue about the full history, on the grounds that individuals were not themselves faultless.
“When I met Ojukwu, he talked honestly and when I met him in Ivory Coast, I asked him a few inquiries like ‘for what reason did you shoot Victor Banjo and others?’.
“He offered a few exceptionally good responses. I met him again when I did a program for BBC Channel 4 named ‘Excursions’, and I recovered the excursion to Biafra.
“I talked with (previous head of state during Nationwide conflict) Gowon, Ojukwu, Achuzie and every one of the people who were associated with the conflict.
“These were updates and it is an illustration of the past. Assuming history is taught in schools, you will not have individuals discussing the chance of another conflict.
“You will have more individuals leaned to exchange. There are people who have hands across various pieces of the country.
“These are individuals who are history cognizant; resigned General Ike Nwachukwu, Dr Ezeife thus numerous others are history cognizant. Thus, they would rather not see mistakes happen.
“There is the need to show history in schools, yet additionally to make it a vital part of our urban cognizance in various ways.
“I feel that even the film plays a part to play in such manner.”