Chris Abani - I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war en...

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I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.

Chris Abani

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Ich wurde 1966 zu Beginn des Biafran-Nigerianischen Bürgerkriegs geboren, und der Krieg endete nach drei Jahren. Ich wuchs in der Schule auf, und die Bundesregierung wollte nicht, dass wir uns über die Geschichte des Krieges unterrichten ließen, weil sie dachten, dass wir wahrscheinlich eine neue Generation von Rebellen hervorbringen würden.

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