Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has said
that Nigeria is suffering greater carnage at the hands of the violent
Islamic sect, Boko Haram, than it did during the country’s 30-month
civil war.
Soyinka, however, said the Boko Haram insurgency had made the country’s break-up less likely.
He said this in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
Soyinka said the horrors inflicted by
the Boko Haram insurgents 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.
