Nigeria
is suffering greater carnage at the hands of Islamist group Boko Haram than it
did during a secessionist civil war, yet this has ironically made the country’s
break-up less likely, Nigerian Nobel Literature Laureate Wole Soyinka said.
Speaking
to Reuters at his home surrounded by rainforest near the southwestern city of
Abeokuta, Soyinka said the horrors inflicted by the militants had shown
Nigerians across the mostly Muslim north and Christian south that sticking
together might be the only way to avoid even greater sectarian slaughter.
The
bloodshed was now worse than during the
