Or so says Adam Nossiter, West Africa Bureau chief for The Times, in his review of Chinua Achebe's memoirs, There Was a Country.
Nigeria is Texan because, "it’s big and loud and brash, a place of huge potential, untapped talent, murderous conflict and petroleum riches."
Nossiter laments that Achebe fails to see the potential of contemporary Nigeria in his new book. Achebe's focus is on the chaos and the futility. He also writes fondly of Biafra, a tiny state that seceded from Nigeria after Nigeria won independence from Britain. In the immediate aftermath of its formation, the fledgling state was however brutally destroyed by mainland Nigeria.
Achebe had worked briefly at Biafra's Ministry of Information.
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