“as we reached the brink of full-blown war it became clear to me that the chaos enveloping all of us in nigeria was due to the incompetence of the nigerian ruling class,” achebe says. “they clearly had a poor grasp of history and found it difficult to appreciate and grapple with nigeria’s ethnic and political complexity.”

fifty-five years after independence from british colonial rule the country hasn’t found, it is sad to admit, its political bearing yet; if anything, corruption, ethnicity and the pursuit of self-serving agendas by the political class, which were in abundant supply pre- and post-civil war, have only bloomed.

“As we reached the brink of full-blown war it became clear to me that the chaos enveloping all of us in Nigeria was due to the incompetence of the Nigerian ruling class,” Achebe says. “They clearly had a poor grasp of history and found it difficult to appreciate and grapple with Nigeria’s ethnic and political complexity.”

Fifty-five years after independence from British colonial rule the country hasn’t found, it is sad to admit, its political bearing yet; if anything, corruption, ethnicity and the pursuit of self-serving agendas by the political class, which were in abundant supply pre- and post-civil war, have only bloomed.
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