There was nothing artificial about this fourth WAAD conference , a powerful female dominated gathering of writers ,scholars ,thinkers, activists, bureaucrats and quite an exciting and even intriguing variegated spectrum of intellectuals from all over the world.

Founded right after the Civil War as a social outlet for the depressed Igbo business men and women who were dispossessed of their property and lost their businesses in the Civil War, from North to South, Okaa Social Club later renamed Peoples Club of Nigeria has withered the storm of maladministration over the years.

The British under Lugard perceived the north as the location of the superior race. Islamic religion of the so called finer race was a better regarded form of paganism than the fetish practices of the savage south.

Foolhardy, and perpetually risking his own personal interests, friendships, personal safety, etc, his courage to stand by the truth , and prophesy for his community are the intellectual arsenal disposed to him as he restlessly forages his environment, patiently creating new possibilities, seeking for new alliances, shifting and striving for new paradigms.

Col Naira Abubakar: General, you are an old soldier. You have not gone on any modern exercise ….have you been on any Peace Intervention Force where you are sent to Afghanistan, Somali or even Sudan? You might have fought the tough Japanese, the very organized and able Germans, but when you encounter the Talibans, you will not like the day you joined the Army.