Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, said the agitation for an Igbo nation is indomitable.
Soyinka asserted this in an interview in Episode Nine of the Noble Nigeria Podcast on YouTube titled, ‘Humanity Over Religion’.
“The first thing I have to say as I said at that time – which got me into serious trouble – is that you cannot defeat Biafra. People took a merely simplistic approach to understanding that.
“They felt I was talking about the battlefield. When the people are determined, they are willing to sacrifice anything to preserve their identity. When they feel they are on a righteous cause, it is difficult to defeat them. If there is any military defeat, it is only temporary. The real issues remain unsolved.
“That is a lesson of history all over the world. So, when I made that statement, I was seeing the Biafran notion and concept, and all that it represented both antecedents and the future. When you have that kind of combination of different causes, it is very difficult to defeat them,” the 89-year-old said.
