Satire on the Nigerian Civil War and the Aftermath

PREFACE

It is usually very difficult to SATIRIZE CIVIL CONFLICTS especially when such conflicts eventually lead to WARS where about one million innocent men, women and children die from bullet wounds, air raids, or from kwashiorkor due to malnutrition and under-nutrition. The kwashiorkor was caused by the well orchestrated and planned starvation by the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Gowon’s Commissioner (Minister) of Finance during the Nigerian Civil War. He had claimed that starvation is an instrument of war.

In attempting to satirize the very traumatic Nigerian Civil War, the author is not trying to needlessly poke fun on an otherwise serious matter of life and death. This book is rather trying to poke fun on the brotherly and sisterly misunderstandings which if handled better should not have led to the colossal loss of life to the degree and magnitude that made the honest people of the world call the war a pogrom of a race of people, the IGBOS.

It is poking fun on the whole dastardly affair because at the end of the 30 month War, the General of the Winning Group, the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria declared that there was “no victor and no vanquished”. What was then the real purpose for trying to decimate a race of innocent people of Igbo origin?

General Gowon’s name was translated as being “GO-ON-WITH-ONE-NIGERIA” by sycophantic Nigerians in their bid to induce and pressurize Gowon to wipe out the Igbo race from the map of Nigeria.

This did not finally happen and the remnants of the Igbo race who were still alive after January 15, 1970 were forced to re-join the rest of Nigeria at Nigeria’s terms and as second-rate citizens and a defeated people.

The Question is: Have the Nigerian People now been truly RE-UNITED?

Your guess is as true as that of the writer of this book!

I leave YOU to come to your own unbiased conclusion as you find time to go through this book from the beginning to the end.

Enjoy the reading!!

Prof. Eugene Arene, mni
Lagos, Nigeria.
2008.