Description
This must be one of the great revolutions of interpretation in Nigerian history. Built on facts, the book guides our gaze toward neglected chronology and the meaning of events. The implications make for an inevitable and radical re-evaluation of modern Nigerian history.
If one may suspend disbelief, reading this book will amount to a rewiring of our convictions and concepts about Nigeria and its history.
How and Why the Yoruba Fought and Lost the Biafra-Nigeria Civil War, amounts to a game-changing interrogation of Nigeria. The book demonstrates that an implausible conjecture is not only possible but that it has already happened in the past!
Ego-Alowes adopts a psychoanalytic approach to the whole drama that is Nigerian politics. Suddenly, all the scattered pieces of our history are pieced to reveal not just where the “rain started to beat us”, but also a way forward from the ensuing cold.
Personally, I do not think that the mentioned characters are solely aware of the implications and connotative meanings of their many comments as well as body language; perhaps it is because history has over time conditioned me to perceive them as political saints. Nonetheless, national gamer or apostle, this is one book to read, for Nigeria’s sake.
–Amara Chimeka
OM –
The Nigerian Civil War was between the Nigerian Government of the time & the then eastern region of Nigeria, majorly Igbos. There is no Yoruba take on the war. The Nigerian government at the time was headed by an Hausa man, national front comprised of all tribes in Nigeria except for the IGBOS. There are some Yorubas led the Igbo side of the war. These type of book should never be platformed. It’s a distortion of history & a tribally-biased falsehood.
OM –
The Nigerian Civil War was between the Nigerian Government of the time & the then eastern region of Nigeria, majorly Igbos. There is no Yoruba take on the war. The Nigerian government at the time was headed by an Hausa man, national front comprised of all tribes in Nigeria except for the IGBOS. There are some Yorubas led the Igbo side of the war. These type of book should never be platformed. It’s a distortion of history & a tribally-biased falsehood.
OM –
The Nigerian Civil War was between the Nigerian Government of the time & the then eastern region of Nigeria, majorly Igbos. There is no Yoruba take on the war. The Nigerian government at the time was headed by an Hausa man, national front comprised of all tribes in Nigeria except for the IGBOS. There are some Yorubas led the Igbo side of the war. These type of book should never be platformed. It’s a distortion of history & a tribally-biased falsehood.
Arogundade Oduduwa –
Yoruba wasn’t at war with the Igbos. It was the North vs Igbos. Yorubas only fought when the Igbos invaded Yorubaland in Ore, Ondo State, in a bid of the Igbos to annex Yorubaland by occupying Lagos & Ibadan.
Selling a book that distort history will lead to litigation. This is harmful and distasteful!
Ayomide –
The Yorubas and Igbos didn’t fight any war, it was firstly the Igbos vs the North, then the North retaliated and it turned into a full blown civil war, even tho igbos dropped bombs on Yoruba territory in Lagos and Ibadan, the Yorubas didn’t retaliated…they left it to the federal troops, Yorubas haven’t for once rebelled against Nigeria nor any other ethnic group entrapped inside Nigeria, this book is false and reeks of revisionism for a mischievous agenda and purpose
Darnell Mills –
The book is a glorified falsehood and more of an obsession with a rival tribe, the Yoruba people, from the pseudo-writer who is obviously an Ibo man. As a non-Yoruba person, I have to be objective here but in my vast knowledge about Nigerian history , no where did history says the Nigerian Civil War was specifically about the Yorubas but all Nigerians against Biafrans who were mostly an extraction of tribes from the Ibos and other minority groups in the then Eastern Region. In fact, some Yorubas such as Col. Victor Banjo supported the Biafran forces against the Nigeria State. Accordingly, the Yorubas as a people never joined the war until the Biafrans faced and invaded the Western Region at Ore and it was that point that the Yorubas joined in the war and stopped the invaders expansion further to the west. Thereafter, the war was eventually won by the Nigerian forces and the Biafran leader Ojukwu fleeing in cowardice to Abidjan leaving his own people to die in their mystery. Eventually, the Biafran forces had to surrender after being rounded up in Owerri, Aba & Umuahia in an operation called Operation OAU led by a Yorubaman called Benjamin “The Scorpion” Adekunle. Now someone waking up after many years to distort history and writing about how the Yorubas fought and lost the war which did not concern them is blatant falsehoods. Such a book should be de-platformed because no iota of truth in it. Cheers.