Last year, he published a long-awaited memoir about the brutal three-year Biafranwar - when the south-eastern Igbo region tried to split from Nigeria in 1967.
Last year, Mr Achebe published a long-awaited memoir about the brutal three-year Biafranwar - when the south-eastern Igbo region tried to split from Nigeria in 1967.
Fears that a true federal system might lead to the break-up of Nigeria, a fear with substance after the Biafranwar of secession of 1967-70, are now misplaced.
Perhaps, as Mr Luttwak seems to think, all its vile wars would indeed have ended by now had the combatants been left to fight to the finish, as Nigeria's were in the Biafranwar of 1967-70.