Quote on Nigerian Crisis

"I consider that Nigeria is on the verge, on the brink of a massive implosion that will make what's happening in the Sudan child's play. We know there are movements for secession in this country. We know that everybody is preparing for the contingency of breaking up. International organisations are also studying the situation."

— Wole Soyinka, Africa's first Nobel Prize Winner for Literature

Reuters Alert, July 8, 2004