"THERE WAS A COUNTRY:A PERSONAL HISTORY OF BIAFRA" - CHINUA ACHEBE

The hard truths that were exposed and supported with many valid evidences as well as the most important questions that Chinua Achebe asked all Nigerians in his last book before his death last Friday in Boston, United States have both truly divided Nigerians and the national public opinions about this war into two different camps.

The Biafran war was the worst chapter of human event in the entire history of the Nigerian nation to date. Every effort has been made since 1970 after this brutal war was officially over by every successive government in Nigeria to date including the military government that prosecuted the Biafran war to sweep the whole truth about this war under the carpet of history forever and have all attempted to rewrite the true account of this war to suit their own tribal or regional goals and the myopic national objectives of the Nigerian leaders that are neither patriotic nor nationalistic in the name of one Nigeria and national unity.

Achebe's book on the Biafran war was his biggest personal legacy that was based on the first class account from one of the major actors on the Biafra's side of this deadly war. The book asked the most important questions about this war that were never asked before at the national and international levels except the use of the common phrase "No Victor and No Vanguished". This book also serves as a national warning to the present Nigerian nation that has never learned any vital lesson of life to date from her brutal and past history.

Chinua Achebe is now gone and the Nigerian nation that he truly loved as a patriot and a nationalist is now facing the likely possibility of this destructive event been repeated again in our lifetime in a nation that is passing through the same similar events of the 1960s that gave birth to the Biafran war when the true wound of this Biafra war has not truly healed in all honesty and reality in 2013 in Nigeria.