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The Biafra I Know (Part 3)

By Kinsomebody C. Egbuchu (Abia writers) It is in those very places where the malice of savage enemies display their worst atrocities and wh...


By Kinsomebody C. Egbuchu (Abia writers)

It is in those very places where the malice of savage enemies display their worst atrocities and where the ordeal of men, women and children has been most severe that I Kinsombody found Biafran's morale most high and splendid. 

 

Indeed, I felt encompassed by the exaltation of the spirit in the masses, which seemed to resurrect Biafra and lift them above the troubles and level of material facts into that joyous serenity of restoring Biafra, its heritage and glory, which they think belongs to a better world than this. 

 

Right now, it has been a fact that being a Biafran in Nigeria is not a comfortable existence.  It means being a part of the company of the bruised, the battered and the defeated.

 

 I suggest that Biafrans desist from accepting British-Nigerian lies or natural obstacles in the struggle for self-determination and realize that mastery can only be regained by a ferocious and unrelenting assault of spiritual courage in pursuit of their freedom. 

 

This spirit is the spirit of the three Hebrews, Shedrack, Mishack, and Abednego, who stood before the god of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, in a prepared furnace and hallowed: "Even if our God does not want to save us, we'll not bow before any other god." So, this spirit must animate and ensure every fighting Biafran and the Biafra elites.

 

 However it may be, I quite know that Biafrans have differed and quarreled in the past because of the divide, conquer, and rule system of British Nigeria and her allies, but now, one bond ties them to wage an unrelenting war of negotiating their Republic until victory is won, never to surrender themselves to setbacks, servitude, and shame, whatever the cost and the agony may be…

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