Authors keynote speech calls for preservation of Igbo worldview, culture and traditions amid separatist movement turning increasingly violent As took to the stage in a hall in the south-eastern Nigerian city of Enugu, dressed in a vibrant burnt orange African-print outfit, her hair styled in an elegant afro, the audience clapped and ululated in appreciation. Its always a homecoming when I return to the south-east, the novelist, who was born in the city, began. But it no longer feels like home the calm, the warmth, the essence seems to have faded, she added, in an allusion to the violence associated with an in the region where 90 of people are from the Igbo ethnic group and a recent rise in ritual killings.
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