Nigeria, Dec. 6 -- In the first instalment of this open letter, we revisited the historical distortions that shifted Ndigbo from the centre of Nigeria's political life to the periphery of its power structure. We examined how the January 1966 coup, hastily and wrongly branded an Igbo plot, and the chain of miscalculations that followed, created a narrative of suspicion that has defined the Igbo experience for decades. These events provided the scaffolding upon which exclusion and scapegoating were built. Yet, history must eventually cease to wound and begin to instruct.

That moment has arrived, for reflection without transformation becomes an elegant form of self-pity. To chart a new path, we must first confront the fractures within our o...