(i) The first set of critics of the Chinua Achebe's last book on the Biafran war that took place in Nigeria from 1967 to 1970 have attempted to humanly exonerate the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo from the principal roles that he played in the prosecution of the Biafran war from its beginning to its final end when he was the Vice-Chairman of the then Federal Executive Council and the Finance Minister of the then Federal Military Government of Nigeria. Chief Obafemi Awolowo principally managed the Nigeria war economy.
(ii) The second set of critics tried to denounce the fact that the Biafran war was an act of genocide as conducted by the then Nigerian military government against her Igbo tribe and had tried as hard as it was humanly possible to justify the reasons why an estimated 3 million Igbos needed to die or must die in order to keep Nigeria together and intact as one nation in the name of national unity. (iii) The third set of critics were very upset with Chinua Achebe for having the courage, boldness and the audacity to reopen the old wounds of this brutal war that had refused to heal in all truth, honesty and reality since 1970 when it ended officially.
(iv) The fourth set of critics cannot truly understand the rational behind Chinua Achebe's attempt in his book to straighten out the 42-year old fabricated records and true history of this Biafran war in 2012 when Nigeria is at a major crossroad of her existence again with the menace of Boko Haram, Niger Delta militants, MOSSOB, Odua, Egbesu and others. (iv) The fifth set of critics tried unsuccessfully to tarnish and to degrade the international reputation, achievements, legacies and the integrity of this erudite writer/scholar by calling him a failed, unpatriotic Nigerian, an ethnic lord of the Igbos and a frustrated academician.
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