I think that we should perhaps be asking questions about 'Igbo-ness' and the claims we can make about its multiplicity and/or singularity. I may be wrong but I think that some singularities in (pre/post-)colonial Africa emerged from 'counter-hegemonic' drives when the erstwhile 'loose' but 'affiliated' (and sometimes internecine) cultural and ethnic 'selves' or configurations had to '(e-)merge' to form a unified sociopolitical 'whole' (self) against a hegemonic 'other(s)'. Piggybacking on previous arguments by members of this 'intelligentsia', I believe that 'Igbo-ness', 'Yoruba-ness' and even 'anygroup-ness' aren't biological realities but are rather socially constructed.
A. Oyawale
The concept of Biafra when it first came about was an Igbo initiative.
The resuscitation of the concept 50 years on is predominantly Igbo driven and it is Igbo led by Kanu.
OAA
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The assumption that IPOB is an Igbo group and that the group's leader is leading an Igbo resistance is crass stupidity. What about the persons from other ethnicities in eastern Nigeria who are IPOB members?
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