Search The Truth Of Biafra, A Call For Peace

As a Student Studying English language in one of our courses titled Nigerian Novel. We are to study the following era in Nigeria literary development: the precolonial, colonial, post colonial, pre civil war, civil war,post civil war, oil boom, contemporary times era.. our studies captures this wide areas...


recommended text are about 20 Nigerian novels.

During my study of Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and The last Duty By Isidore Okpewho.

Half of a yellow sun captured my mind, so I searched for the movie to establish my knowledge on the Biafra saga + the civil war effect.

It's clear to say other Nigerians were not comfortable with Igbo leading almost all agency of the government and the fact that an Igbo man was the vc of a university of Lagos also made other Nigerians see the Igbo's as possessing the spirit of dominating/subduing other Nigerians. this brought unrest to the spines and marrows of other Nigerians yet they all lived in peace though in pretence.


In Adichie's half of a yellow sun she clearly display this unrest as Olanna is approached by a man in the airport who show's her a paper about the removal of the Igbo vice chancellor from the university of Lagos and he continues to lament that Igbo owns all shops in Lagos, controls the economy, the police and when you are arrested once you can say "Kedu" in Igbo you are allowed to go free of crimes committed.

Hence, It's clear the Igbos and other Nigerians were not comfortable with the Hausa government of that time, but only the Igbo's were brave enough to voice out and show there true stance/discontent without pretending to be Happy.


While at odenigbo's house. The news of the coup meant a sign of relief, it meant the end of corruption, it meant the end of Hausa political domination. none the less it was considered an Igbo coup as mostly those killed where non Igbo's.. another tragedy abound..

other Nigerians were in pains, losing their political heads, spiritual heads while the Igbo's were at peace and ease. celebrating the coup and mockery of the deads of other Nigerians. another tragedy... this brought about hatred for the Igbo's by other tribes...

Ironsi brought about the unitary system again their by making power centralized adding to the existing woes..



The North which is already suspicious of the Igbo's started the pogrom. massacring igbos in Kaduna, Zaria and kano in thousands making general ojukwu to declare Biafra.




If for anything I am not Igbo, but I feel the pain of the millions of lives lost during the civil war, the pain, hunger, the agony and frustration. abduction of women, raping of women even children were not spared. 

The gory wickedness is enough to make generations seek Biafra like the generations of today. I do not blame the youths after hearing painful stories like this I would seek the same.


My call for peace... please there is no place we all can call home apart from Nigeria, we must not allow selfish politicians push us the path of war again.. let's embrace each other. let's bolt hard the knot that binds us..




I love the Igbos and respect their wish and call but together we are stronger divided we fall like heaps of dry leaves.



May the soul of the innocent children, Fathers, uncles and Auntys countless of whom lost their lives in the civil war rest in peace..

God bless the Igbo Nation.
God bless Biafra
God bless Nigeria
God bless us all.