Teacher Wole Soyinka has made sense of that individuals misconstrued him when he said “you can never overcome Biafra”, taking note of that it was oversimplified to think he was alluding to the war zone.
The Nobel laureate made the explanation in a meeting on Channels TV, while answering an inquiry on the Civil War, fomenters and history.
As indicated by 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, yet this one was especially awful.”
On his misconstrued remark on Biafra, the incredible playwright and lobbyist said: “The Igbo, no inquiry by any stretch of the imagination, went through the experience of annihilation.
“The memory of such damaging experience solidifies, particularly towards their promptness yet it can burst out again some other time.
“At the point when I said something that ‘you can never overcome Biafra’, individuals took an extremely shortsighted 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 people who don’t have the foggiest idea about the full history, in light of the fact that individuals were not themselves exemplary.
“When I met Ojukwu, he talked honestly and when I met him in Ivory Coast, I asked him a few inquiries like ‘for what good reason did you shoot Victor Banjo and others?’.
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“He offered a few exceptionally palatable 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 Civil War) Gowon, Ojukwu, Achuzie and every one of the people who were associated with the conflict.
“These were updates and it is an example of the past. In the event that set of experiences is taught in schools, you will not have individuals discussing the chance of another conflict.
“You will have more individuals leaned to discourse. 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 blunders occur.
“There is the need to show history in schools, yet additionally to make it a vital part of our community cognizance in various ways.
“I believe that even the film plays a part to play in such manner.”