THE WALK TO THE NEW BIAFRA :YES WE CAN . BY CLEM EBERE

 http://igbomade.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-walk-to-biafra.html

Clem Ebere replies  to the link above 👆

Wao!  GBAM!!
This is the Biafra I have always spoken about whenever and wherever I talk about Biafra.. This is the Biafra I believe in. This is the Biafra that will save the Igbo people. This is the Biafra that will fight no war to be. This is the Biafra I belong!

A redefinition of "Biafra" in context and content. That is what I have been advocating and telling those who care to hear.

We should learn from history, and stop the self delusion of openly inviting self destruction, by allowing those that defeated us about 50 years ago, to reduce us again.  To reduce Igboland to a wadteland, to correct their mistake of not wiping the Igbos s out of the surface of the earth 50 years ago. 

The new Biafra should be won through wisdom, the new Biafra should be won without firing guns, the new Biafra should exist without escalating  the experimental  "Python dance or egwu- eke" to all igboland,  the new Biafra should be be won through a deliberate strategy to empower the entire igboland and Igbo people, psychologically,   economically, technologically with sound infrastructure to unleash mass flourishing in Igbo land. 

The new Biafra is the Biafra of the mind. A mindset for Igboland to dominate  Nigeria, and indeed West Africa economically. A mindset and demonstrable industrial prowess that will endue the power and strength unimaginable and indomitable by any political power in Nigeria.  The new Biafra will bemuse other regions to utter awe and profound admiration of the Igbo people.

Why should the new Biafra take that route? :
1) It is safer, no soul will be lost!
2) It is doable! It is our birth right, because we are industrious,. Eastern Nigeria had once won the world rating as the fastest developing region in west Africa, and we can do it again!
3) The Igbos are positioned to do it. They have commerce in their hand, they have investors in their midst, their intelligentsia are everywhere in the world, we are daring and have our people in business and industry, everywhere.
4) We have a waiting and willing population of commercial operators to command the market forces operating in West Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa to depend on a developed market in Igboland.
5) The issue of leadership which will definitely  bedevil a nascent Igbo nation, if ever fought and won, will now be removed, as all efforts and energies for political powers and control will be concentrated to Nigeria as an entity. This will remove the secession curse, as witnessed in Southern Sudan.

My brothers, you would agree with me that majority of us in this forum are nominally Biafran, by sympathy and by default as Igbomen, but very few are card carrying members of IPOB or MASSOB.  You would also agree with me, that as the new Biafra is created or championed, most of us will become part of it as full  and active members.
Come to think of it, how did China emerge as the greatest Political force in the 21st century?  Simply, because they became the largest economy in the world, the factory of the world, the largest trading partner to USA, European Union, Africa, etc. China rules the world economically and are prepared to rule politically.
So, new Biafra or Ndi- Igbo can can rule Nigeria and west Africa economically , and later take rule Nigeria Politically.

Yes. We have started it. Let us replicate the Nnewi industrialization experiment in a grand and strategic scale in entire Igbo Land.  Let us create the enabling environment through the organized private sector, in collaboration with government to do it. Let us reactivate and unleash the latent energies and the inborn  entrepreneurial spirit of Igbo sons and daughters including those in the diaspora to create the largest economic zone in West Africa called Biafra, and not a secessionist Zone in Nigeria called Biafra.
YES, WE CAN DO IT!. LET US DO IT.
By  Clem Ebere