The current movement for Biafra is a very serious one because it represents a complete fracture between the Igbo elite and their masses. In the Internet, former Governor Peter Obi is accused of using Nigerian soldiers to massacre an estimated 5,000 militants of MASSOB in the period 2006 to 2009 under the direction of former President Olusegun Obasanjo who was said to have given the 'Shoot-at Sight Order'. During the period, "Nigerian soldiers were said to have been on rampage at Onitsha, Nnewi, Oba, Ihiala and environs shooting, killing, and maiming anything that has a suspicion of being MASSOB." If today the disaffected and poor Igbo youth, just like the Boko Haram fighters, are defining their governors and elite as central to the problem, there is no surprise that no one has a clue in terms of responding to Lenin's question – what is to be done. What the Igbo intellectual class has done is to develop a coherent marginalisation thesis, which the Igbo lumpen proletariat took and is running with.
Huku Tanzania ikiwa na ongezeko la watu kutoka milioni 12.3 kwa mwaka 1967 hadi milioni 44.9 kwa mwaka 2012 ni dhahiri ukuaji wa kilimo umesaidia kuiweka nchi katika hali bora zaidi ya upatikanaji wa chakula ingawa ifikapo mwaka 2030 watu wa mijini watakuwa wameongezeka kwa asilimia 37 na kuweka shinikizo ambalo kwa namna nyingine linaweza kuwa na maana kwa kuwa mazao ya chakula yatakuwa ndiyo ya biashara na hivyo kuacha kutegemea yale ya asili kama kahawa na tumbaku.Mtafiti mshiriki mwandamizi wa ESRF Prof Samuel Wangwe akijadili mada iliyowasilishwa na Prof Brian Van wakati wa mhadhara mkubwa ulioshirikisha wanazuoni mbalimbali kujadili historia na nafasi ya kilimo na sera zake katika kufanikisha safari ya viwanda ya Tanzania, kwa kuangalia mazao ya chakula kama mazao ya biashara uliofanyika katika ukumbi wa mikutano wa ESRF jijini Dar es Salaam.