"THE SIX MAJOR QUESTIONS THAT CHINUA ACHEBE ASKED NIGERIANS IN HIS LAST BOOK"

Below are the last six key questions that Chinua Achebe asked all Nigerians in his last book that he published in 2012 before his death few months ago this year. The late Chinua Achebe in his last book titled "There Was A Country:A Personal History of Biafra"  that was published in 2012 that I presently owned a personal copy of the book. I have also read this book personally from its front cover to its back cover. In that book the late Chinua Achebe asked the boldest, the hardest, the most controversial and the toughest questions about Nigeria and the Biafra war that took place almost 50 years ago, but remained the worst human event in the Nigeria's history to date as a nation.

The fundamental questions that this literary giant asked all Nigerians are as follow:(i) Was the Biafran war not an act of genocide against the Igbo tribe from all the available and valid evidences today? (ii) Were Yakubu Gowon and Obafemi Awolowo not both equally guilty of genocide against the Igbos in the ways and in the manners that they both used to prosecute this brutal war, through the use of economic blockage and the food starvation that led to the preventable physical deaths of about 2-3 million of those defenseless Igbo children, women and the non-combatant men?

(iii) Has Nigeria as a nation ever truly learned any vital historical lessons from this brutal past so that history does not repeat itself again in our lifetime? (iv) Are the present events in Nigeria today not very similar to those events of the 1960s that gave birth to the Biafran war? (v) Why is the Biafran war and its most important lessons kept away from the public, the young Nigerians today and are never taught in any of our public educational systems? (vi) Why did all the successive governments in Nigeria since the end of this deadly war to date have all attempted to suppress the information about this war, to manipulate the true account of history about this war, to distort the historical importance of this terrible war in Nigeria that wiped out more that 10% of the Igbo population at that time who were the lost members of the future generation the Igbo tribe?