Balkanization of Nigeria as a Done Deal
The Ottoman Empire failed largely because as Muslims dominated empire it started toying with the oppressive Islamic political system of government and ideology. The empire’s fall was rapid and its leaders started looking for escape goats.
by Osita Ebiem
( March 8, 2016, New York City, Sri Lanka Guardian) “And the Ibos [Igbo] have started again about the Biafra. You know what? I am ready to go to the next war if there’s going to be a balkanization of this country.” (Nigerian Tribune February 27, 2016.) That is how Alabi Isama is quoted as his response to a journalist’s question on the current Igbo quest for secession from Nigeria. Isama was a Nigerian army officer who served during the Biafran War. He fought on the Nigerian side. It is even reported that he recently wrote a book about the war.
The current Balkan states are those European states within the Balkan region that emerged in the twilight days of the Ottoman Empire. They were larger union states that broke up into smaller units or countries at the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Some of them had existed in unpleasant unions for centuries. But during the balkanization era they all broke up. The break ups happened despite the resistance of many battle hardened generals who had seen real battles against armies that were equally well-armed during the imperial days when men built empires and annexed vassal states by the force of arms. Some of these Balkan army generals were career military men – from their teenage years till old age, they fought wars.
