Nigeria: Civil War

Naijablog comments that Nigeria has failed to reach its moment of “genius” mainly because it has so far refused to acknowledge the depths of its suffering – “the civil war, the 40 years of rule by an elitist cabal, the brutality and brutalism of everyday experience for the masses”.

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  • chike

    i belive that the civil war was fought out of gread by the nigeria government so as to control the wealth of the eastern region and i believe history will not forgive gowon britain the usa the soviet union and nigerians at large for the genocide they commited agains there fellow man may all those biafrans who lost there lives in the war rest in peace long live the federal republic of biafra

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