Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from May 30, 2017

Black Day

Its not that I do not understand why my people want Biafra. Its not that I do not think it is a noble cause. Its just that whenever I remember the stories my father told me about the war, the stories older people who witnessed the war shared, whenever I remember my uncle whose legs will never be useful again because of a bullet wound, whenever I remember the other uncle that never returned, whenever I remember the events Late Prof. Festus Iyare pened down in 'Heroes', whenever I read 'There was a country, I ask myself, "Is this an achievable cause?" See, most of the people screaming yes to Biafra are only social media warriors. In real life, they cannot put up a good argument for the movement. Ya'all watch too much of Bollywood romance. You should watch documentary films and see what a real war looks like. Do you think if a war breaks out in this country, Nnamdi will carry weapons and march in front to fight? You lie! He will fly his precious family to