Chido Onumah debuts ‘We Are All Biafrans’

Journalist, blogger, human rights activist and Coordinator of African Centre for Media and Information  Literacy (AFRICMIL). Chido Onumah is set to launch end of May, another book entitled ‘We Are All Biafrans’. The launch will be in conjunction with the publishers Parresia Publishers Ltd, AFRICMIL in partnership with Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Foundation and is expected […]

Journalist, blogger, human rights activist and Coordinator of African Centre for Media and Information  Literacy (AFRICMIL). Chido Onumah is set to launch end of May, another book entitled ‘We Are All Biafrans’.
The launch will be in conjunction with the publishers Parresia Publishers Ltd, AFRICMIL in partnership with Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Foundation and is expected to draw Nigerians from all walks of life.
Like his two previous books (‘Time to Reclaim Nigeria and ‘Nigeria, is Negotiable’), ‘We Are All Biafrans is a collection of essays published by the author in various newspapers in the last three years (2013-2016) focusing on the crisis of nationhood in Nigeria.
A staunch advocate of federalism in its proper sense, Onumah in this book contends that most, if not all, of the problems of Nigeria today, are located in the way the country is structured. As he did in his previous books, he makes an eminently logical case for an urgent socio-political restructuring of Nigeria in order to ward off a looming catastrophe that could endanger our collective well-being. He argues that the country needs to engage episodic political convulsions that threaten its very foundation, including Biafra, June 12, Boko Haram, the “National Question”, citizenship rights, and “militocracy”.
He takes on Nigeria’s indolent and reactionary ruling elite – civilian and military – and their allies, as well as bandits in uniform, scoundrels posing as statesmen, and conservative ideologues, religious bigots, and ethnic chauvinists posing as patriots.
The author notes that we can’t achieve any meaningful progress as a people until we come to terms with the reality of our existence – that Nigeria is a deeply flawed nation – and sincerely and selflessly confront it.
“Chido Onumah raises opinion-making about Nigeria to the standards of great, uncompromising art,” notes author, poet, and ex-president of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Odia Ofeimun.
We are all Biafrans is a clarion call to reclaim a country that is on the verge of national suicide. It seeks to trigger the debate that will eventually nudge Nigerians towards kick-starting the process of a genuine re-invention of the country.