Formation of Egbe Omo Oduduwa
"... Before the Egbe was founded in London in 1945, there was already a two-year old branch of the Ibo Federal Union there. Even so the reaction of practically all the students from the Eastern Region and of some from the Western Region to the formation of the Egbe was a hostile one.
Being the most prominent among the founders, I was singled out for attack. I was accused of being tribalistic and of having a design to wreck the unity of Nigeria. In the face of the aims and objects of the Egbe which were widely circulated among Nigerian students in the United Kingdom, these accusations did not make any sense to me... "
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