The article examines ethnic disunity in Nigeria since the end of the Biafra War in January 1970, focusing on the former Eastern Region. It states that minorities in the former Northern and Western Regions face discrimination and subjugation, while in the East, minorities distance themselves from their Igbo majority neighbours. The piece notes that some people who are Igbo in terms of names, language and culture reject the Igbo label and instead hold strongly to their dialectal identity, which they call their ethnic nationality. It is the second part of a series on what it describes as an Igbo identity crisis.
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