"Boko Haram Has United Nigerians Even More" - Wole Soyinka

Despite the great carnage Nigeria has suffered at the hands of the radical Islamist group Boko Haram, Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka says the insurgency has served to unite Nigerians making the country’s break-up even less likely.

Speaking to the international news organisation, Reuters at his home in Abeokuta, Ogun State. Soyinka said the horrors inflicted by the militants had shown Nigerians across the country that sticking together might be the only way to avoid even greater sectarian slaughter.

“We have never been confronted with butchery on this scale, even during the civil war. I think ironically it’s less likely now. For the first time, a sense of belonging is predominating. It’s either we stick together now or we break up, and we know it would be not in a pleasant way,” Soyinka said.