I think that this is part of a wider global story as well when it comes to having accurate reckonings of our past. And I wasn't interested in another account of the war passing blames and all of that, which is really the mainstay of the right thing around Biafra. How does the political become invariably personal? You could see that this happens always. It's one way to move into a place where we are not simply putting aside the task of engaging with the people who are interested in finding points of correspondence between their lives and that of the nation.

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