Biafra Renaissance: Beyond The Frivolous ‘Sit-at-home’ Orthodoxy By Churchill Okonkwo

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Churchill%20Okonkwo Biafra Renaissance: Beyond The Frivolous ‘Sit-at-home’ Orthodoxy By Churchill Okonkwo

As we remember the Biafran heroes this 30thof May 2018, it is important to emphasize that the path to Igbo Renaissance is not in any frivolous “sit-at-home” orthodoxy. The Renaissance of Biafra in Nigeria should simply not be ”hoped for,” as those who are “sitting-at-home” want us to believe. It should be sought through the reassertion of Igbo political and social consciousness in the midst of ever-growing integration in Nigeria. So, IPOB and the promoters of their ideas are once again demonstrating their incapacity to grasp the difference between symbolic and institutional power by simply ‘siting-at-home’.

Let’s face the fact: The political weight and muscles that IPOB carries today bore little resemblance to what it had once been. The reason is simple: Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB, and their backers lack political competence. They do not know who they can and cannot…



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