{"id":213087,"date":"2022-08-28T12:30:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T11:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=213087"},"modified":"2022-08-28T12:30:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T11:30:13","slug":"what-i-mean-by-you-cant-defeat-biafra-soyinka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/08\/28\/what-i-mean-by-you-cant-defeat-biafra-soyinka\/","title":{"rendered":"What I mean by \u2018You can\u2019t defeat Biafra\u2019 \u2013 Soyinka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka has explained what he meant when he said \u201cyou can never defeat Biafra\u201d, stating that it was simplistic to think he was referring to the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>Soyinka said that people misunderstood him, adding that he \u201cwas very desperate for that (the war) not to happen. First, I thought it was a wrong war. No war is right, but this one was particularly bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stated this during an interview on Channels TV, while responding to a question on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/08\/09\/nigerian-civil-war-was-needless-savagery-that-cant-be-repeated-el-rufai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">civil war<\/a>, agitators and history.<\/p>\n<p>The legendary dramatist and activist, clarified his misunderstood statement: \u201cThe Igbo, no question at all, underwent the experience of genocide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe memory of such traumatising experience congeals, especially towards their immediacy but it can burst out again any other time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I made a statement that \u2018you can never defeat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/08\/16\/biafras-independence-not-negotiable-ipob\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biafra<\/a>\u2019, people took a very simplistic reasoning of that. They thought I was just referring to the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I was talking about the idea; that the idea has taken hold of some of those who don\u2019t know the full history, because the people were not themselves blameless.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I met Ojukwu, he spoke very frankly and when I met him in Ivory Coast, I asked him some questions like \u2018why did you shoot Victor Banjo and others?\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe gave some very satisfactory answers. I met him again when I did a programme for BBC Channel 4 entitled \u2018Journeys\u2019, and I did recapture the journey to Biafra.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI interviewed (former head of state during Civil War) Gowon, Ojukwu, Achuzie and all those who were involved in the war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese were reminders and it is a lesson of the past. If history is inculcated in schools, you won\u2019t have people talking so glibly about the possibility of another war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou will have more people inclined to dialogue. There are individuals who have hands across different parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are people who are history conscious; retired General Ike Nwachukwu, Dr Ezeife and so many others are history conscious. So, they don\u2019t want to see errors take place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is the necessity not just to teach history in schools, but also to make it part and parcel of our civic consciousness in numerous ways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that even the cinema has a role to play in this regard.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka has explained what he meant when he said \u201cyou can never defeat Biafra\u201d, stating that it was simplistic to think he was referring to the battlefield. Soyinka said that people misunderstood him, adding that he \u201cwas very desperate for that (the war) not to happen. 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