More than 50 years after the guns fell silent in 1970, Nigeria is still fighting the Civil War. Not with bullets, but with memory, mistrust, and exclusion.
Governor Caleb Mutfwang’s apology to the Igbo in Jos and former Head of State Yakubu Gowon’s new memoir have dragged the nation back to a conversation we keep postponing: have we healed, or have we just learned to live with the wound?
Mutfwang said Plateau people were “deceived into going to war” and asked for forgiveness. Gowon, in “My Life of Duty and Allegiance”, returned to defend Aburi and his war decisions.
Apologies. Memoirs. Regret. But 56 years on, the Igbo question remains unanswered. Because until a people feel they truly belong, no amount of “let’s forget the past” can build a nation.
The Civil War did not start on May 30, 1967, when Ojukwu declared Biafra. It started with a collapse of
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