How Can Nigerian History Be Written Without The Igbo?

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By Chuka Nnabuife | ANCISRO Even the most accomplished propagandists might once have doubted that Nigeria would reach a point where its history could be taught to children with one of its foundational peoples deliberately marginalised or erased. Yet that is the unsettling reality now confronting the country’s basic education system. Until recently, the idea of excluding the Igbo from the study of Nigerian history would have seemed absurd. Today, it is being openly debated. Reports of the non-inclusion — or severe marginalisation — of Igbo narratives in a junior…

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