Biafra victory - beginning of disruption
Nigeria won't ever quit
(Editor's note: This is the first in a series of two articles on the Biafra-Nigeria conflict.
By MICHAEL NAGEL Kansan Staff Writer
The person who supports Biafra is "an open enemy to the progress of Nigeria and Africa," said Raymond Agbanobi, Nigerian graduate student, Fridav.
Agbanobi said Biafran supporters were the enemies of Africa because African unity as well as Nigerian unity are at stake in the Nigerian civil war.
Speaking of the possible success of Biafran secession, Agbanobi said, "it will be the beginning of disruption in Africa."
Tribal splits would cross the African continent and destroy the new nationalism which Africa has developed in the last two decades. There is much friction in African tribal areas anxiously awaiting the outcome of the Nigerian conflict, Agbanobi said.
If the conflict ends in favor of Jukuwu, leader of Biafran
secessionists, then Nigeria will be used as an example for disruption.
The United States' policy of encouraging national self-determination would be severely endangered, Agbanobi said, if it were to support international intervention in the Nigerian civil war.
The Biafrans are "yearning for the United States to give them military support," the Nigerian said.
Campus uprisings and the ideas of many modern French authors have several common themes said Wallace Fowlie, professor of French from Duke University.
Fowlie spoke to more than 100 persons Friday in the Kansas Union Forum Room on "Student Revolt and the New French Literature."
Student revolt is primarily a consequence of the dehumanizing of the teaching process, he said.
Campus revolts linked with plays
"The modern student is well versed in many areas and the teachers of today, with their impersonal lectures, fail to relate their material to the students in a relevant way." Fowlie said.
One of the major problems in the classrooms is that of
communication, Fowlie said. Frustration arising from this is probably one of the factors involved in student protests, he said.
Drawing an analogy with the Middle Ages, he said, "Everything points to the end of an era and to the faulty beginning of a new one. Chinese Communist government and history of East Asia at KU.
"If the United States goes into the conflict aside from humane reasons, it would be a big mistake and there will be a longer war."
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"Man used to try to reconcile himself with God, and then during the Age of Enlightenment man looked to science. Now, man is looking at himself to gain meaning for his existence," he said.
"We owe respect to the United States, but that respect should be returned with politeness."
When asked about the best U.S. policy to end the Nigerian conflict, Agbanobi suggested the United States advise all foreign nations to "take their hands out of Nigeria and let Africa and Nigeria take care of the problem.
Contemporary French literature reflects this, he said. Using Thomas Beetel's play "Waiting for Godot," Fowlie said the present student-teacher relationship is much the same.
"The war will end,but it will end earlier if the outside takes their hands off. Nigeria will never give up," he said.
Agbanobi blamed American support of Biafra on Biafran deceit and newspaper prejudice.
He said, "the conscience of the news editors at the University Daily Kansan has been bought by American pro-Biafrans.
"A campus newspaper, which students from many nations read, should not give political asylum for people of any group.
"The UDK is partial in the Nigerian conflict, and all Nigerians on this campus appeal to the editors to try to be fair to both parties of this conflict."
Explaining the Bifran "deceit," Agbanobi said, "not many people know how the money is being used."
People who work in drives such as "Keep Biafra Alive" are receiving remunerations, he said.
"Most the money which is being collected is not reaching the people who are suffering," Agbanobi said, "but is being used by the military."
In the Nigerian civil war, he concluded, the federal government can be the only victor if Africa's development is to succeed.
"If Americans are interested in helping starving children, then why not help those who are liberated," Agbanobi said.
Tomorrow: A Biafran's view
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