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Nigeria: My Single Story.

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      " Doom to the land of flies and mosquitoes      beyond the Ethiopian rivers, Shipping emissaries all over the world,      down rivers and across seas . Go, swift messengers,     go to this people tall and handsome, This people held in respect everywhere,     this people mighty and merciless,     from the land crisscrossed with rivers..." Isaiah 18 (MSG) I've been wanting to talk about this for a while. It's a really controversial issue and I'm aware of that. However, here's my side of the story... Now, the whole talk and clamor for Biafra by the Igbos is really becoming a major issue again (with the one day sit-at-home strike observed by the ‘Biafrans’ on the 30 th of May, 2017). This is still up in our faces even after the Civil War (1967-1970) which left a mighty lot of people devastated and at zero-level along with millions of casualties. Funny enough, some of my classmates in secondary school wen