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Memories Of Biafra Can't Be Erased, Biafra Can Never Be Defeated And Wiped Away - Soyinka

Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka has said that the removal of history from the curriculum of Nigerian schools by the government is a criminal act, IGBERETV reports.

Speaking at the 24th edition of the Lagos Book and Arts Festival organized by Book Kraft, Soyinka stated that memories of Biafra can't be erased by the removal of history from schools' curriculum as the agitation can never be defeated and can never be wiped away.

He said;

“Collective memory is the key because it is that memory which is related to the mechanisms of relating reality to whatever narrative is given to us. It is far more important and it is more dangerous because you can get trapped in it because it is collected as a community activity and some of that I think is happening to us here in Nigeria.

“I’m referring of course to Biafra.

“The collective memory there is very strong, even before the war, I warned that this collective memory might remain to plague efforts at nation being and that therefore, everything should be done to avoid that war.

“When I use expressions like, Biafra can never be defeated can never be wiped away, people thought I was talking about just the battlefield.

“I was talking about, a notion, a ion which enters the collective memory in active life not just as a past narrative. this is what I was warning against. And we’re seeing it today.

“Governments sometimes think that by undertaking the criminal act of removing history from schools, something which I never believed could ever happen to us. The government actually stopped teaching of history in schools.

“So naive, so stupid as not to recognise that there is something called memory, collective memory, active memory in the present.

“If the purpose was to obliterate the war or memories of the war, what about events that led up to the war? What about the position, the narrative of existence in relation to the outer world? How do you obliterate for heaven’s sake?

“Yet people sat down and went about their business when they removed history from the curriculum.

“That’s what I mean by saying that we must always adjudicate the present by history, by the collective memory.

“At the same time, however, we must take care not to become prisoners of that collective memory. That member must be able to use our collective memory in a progressive, productive, creative, and advanced way.”

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Soyinka stated that memories of Biafra can't be erased by the removal of history from schools' curriculum as the agitation can never be defeated and can never be wiped away.

APC urchins should take note.


No end to Biafra republic Agitation and there won't be end for oduduwa republic.

History has never been forgotten, it repeat itself

Interesting...

Hmm

SOYINKA has collect money from ibo to say all this rubbish , very unfortunate

Real facts and facts alone

Hahahaha


Just what Peter Obi campaign team needs

yyba:
SOYINKA has collect money from ibo to say all this rubbish , very unfortunate

What an hypocrite, What of the cold blooded murder of Sir AT Balewa, what of the cold blooded murder of Sir Ahmadu Bello and Akintola ?, When will their family get justice?, The Igbo conspirators want the world to forget about them, forgetting that KARMA has the address of each one of them with their family names.
You can't murder a nation leader and think your own leaders will prosper and lead you to promise land, just like they murdered the greatest Nigeria & Northern leaders in 1966, so also shall their leaders be murdered till the end of time. Every life matters.

Biafra is an ideology

trouble maker

So

Chop noku

What's his own? Anyways nice though.

Brafra is the true wakanda, one of the greatest and most resilient nation on earth.

Me sha I want Biafra to happen.
Igbos can go back to their land.
Obidients Yorubas can them in Anambra state since they believe in the Pandora criminal so much
Then the most sophisticated tribe in Africa will show the world the greatness of the Black man

Anyone who has a problem with my above statement will be disappointed after the election because their candidate won't win.

One scary hidden open secret is that the southeasterns will one day separate from Nigeria and become independent,the only real hidden secret there is the time.

They were defeated but not crushed

That war is the reason why Nigeria is the way it is today.

who send dis hypocrite





Since when did cultists begin put mouth in a noble struggle like biafra?

It's in my own best interest, I do not interfere in matters that will flood my notification with mentions...

I come in peace not in vawulence

We will never forget!!

Peter Obi the Biafra President


APC should use this for Campaign all accross Northern Nigeria

Biafra is a spirit that lives on, Peter Obi is focused on the Biafra spirit

Crypto message

If u don't know about ur history, how will u face ur future.

Na election we dey talk now abeg

The Biafran war can never be air brushed away

Biafra is a spirit. Even Eastern children and teenagers desire Biafra. Sometimes, you just wonder what they know and why the desire to make it materialize. Truly, it can't die.