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Breakaway in Biafra: Fifty Years After Nigeria’s Civil War What prompted the decision to attempt to break away from the largest African nation, and what were the reactions from the global powers of the day to what is generally considered the first post-colonial conflict in Africa?
Biafran Separatism in Post-War Nigeria: Religious Identity, Intergroup . . . Actualisation Forum (BAF), Biafra Foundation (BF), and Biafra Nigeria Worldwide (BNW) (Nwangwu et al 2020, 17-8; Ugwueze 2021, 2) The Nigerian federal government has responded to contemporary Biafran separatism by proscribing separatist groups, conducting military operations in south-eastern Nigeria to limit separatist activities, and
BLAMING THE GODS: CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS PROPAGANDA IN THE NIGERIA BIAFRA WAR Utilizing newly available archival materials from within and outside Nigeria, this article endeavours to unravel the underlying forces in the religious war rhetoric of the mainly Christian breakaway region and its Western sympathizers
20 - Secession and Genocide in the Republic of Biafra, 1966–1970 The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Nigeria–Biafra War, was fought between the Federal Republic of Nigeria and its breakaway eastern province from 1967 to 1970 The Republic of Biafra’s secession in May 1967 was a response to widespread violence against members of the Igbo ethnic group
Republic of Biafra proclaimed | May 30, 1967 | HISTORY In 1960, Nigeria gained independence from Britain Six years later, the Muslim Hausas in northern Nigeria began massacring the Christian Igbos in the region, prompting tens of thousands of
Biafra’s Crisis of Faith - The Republic Religion was not what sparked Biafra’s secession, but the war shaped the ways in which people believed and worshipped in important ways During the war, which lasted from 1967 to 1970, Biafrans turned to new devotional practices to grapple with the circumstances in which they found themselves
How France armed Biafras bid to break from Nigeria - RFI France secretly armed Biafra in the self-proclaimed republic’s attempt to break away from Nigeria in a bid to weaken British and US influence in Africa, documents seen by RFI reveal 50
The Biafra Declare Independence From Nigeria - afriklens. com Biafra declared independence due to ethnic violence, political instability, and economic struggles, particularly over oil The war that followed remains a defining moment in African history, highlighting the dangers of ethnic divisions and the importance of national unity
The Distorted Memory of Biafra - Council on Foreign Relations Biafran secession occurred in the aftermath of two bloody coups and a pogrom against Igbos in the Muslim north, pushing Igbo refugees south into the region that would become Biafra The
History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil . . . Using evidence gathered from incomplete court records, memoirs and supplemented with some thirty oral interviews (2, 23-6), Daly has reconstructed a social history of Biafrans and Nigerians who lived in and with Biafra in wartime