Biafra Archives

Nigeria vs the South East The Glaring Igbophobia of the 2023 Elections

Ernest NwekeMarch 20, 2023

From pre-independence ethnic dog whistling, to pogroms, a civil war and the systemic socio-political ostracization that has since followed, the Igbo are the most discriminated ethnic group in Nigeria and ethnic bigotry against Igbo people has been on full display in the 2023 election.

2023 ElectionsBest of 2023: EssaysBiafraFebruary/March 2023Nigeria

Love and War The War That Stood Between My Ex and Me

Salem AfangidehNovember 24, 2021

Our ‘us’ dissolved into thin air because the trauma of war that haunted our fathers shaped our view of love and without a conscious awareness of it, led us to make impossible demands of each other. Read more.

BiafraNigeriaOctober/November 2021The Black AtlanticUnited States

Who Was Ojukwu? The Many Perceptions of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu

Charles EkpoSeptember 8, 2021

Before he died in 2011, leader of the Biafran secessionist movement, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, had assumed four personalities: he was a hero, a villain, a rebel, and even a ‘one-Nigerianist’. Read more.

August/September 2021BiafraEditors Picks: Independence DayNigeriavol5-no3

This photo is for our piece on 'The Controversial Legacy of Obafemi Awolowo

An Irony of History The Complicated Legacy of Chief Obafemi Awolowo

Chukwudi UkonneAugust 31, 2020

Peer, predecessor or successor, Awolowo’s unequivocal articulation of a clear and consistent political ideology places him above anyone else in Nigeria’s political history. Read more.

August/September 2020BiafraEditors Picks: Independence Dayvol8-no2

This photo is for our piece on Moving Beyond the Semantics, The Biafran Genocide Claim

Moving Beyond Semantics Examining the ‘Biafran Genocide’ Claim

Amarachi IhekeFebruary 21, 2020

Having accomplished a plethora of historical firsts, observations from the Nigeria-Biafra conflict can act as important references to better understand the evolving dynamics of warfare.

BiafraFebruary/March 2020vol4-no2

“We Remember Differently” What Really Happened in Biafra?

Dominique OtigbahMarch 10, 2018

50 years since the war and several perspectives later, Nigeria lacks a standard narrative on Biafra. What really happened during the war?

BiafraEditors Picks: Independence DayOctober/November 2017

Reading Biafra What to Read on the Nigerian Civil War

Dominique OtigbahFebruary 10, 2018

The Nigerian Civil War (also known as the Biafran War), from 1967 to 1970, was a complex conflict that still has a tight hold on politics and society in Nigeria... Read More...

BiafraFebruary/March 2018Library

Biafra and the Politics of Blame The Neo-Biafran Consciousness and Its Challenges

Philip U. EffiongDecember 23, 2017

Today’s pro-Biafran agitators can claim a series of economic, political and, more recently, military onslaughts on its members, and that, consequentially, they ... Read More...

BiafraOctober/November 2017

Agitating the State Biafran Money, Memes and Mobility

Vivian Chenxue LuNovember 14, 2017

In 2008, after his father died, Mr. Sylvester opened his father’s locked cupboard. It was full of Biafran money. Nearly forty years after the failed secession’s... Read More...

BiafraOctober/November 2017

Biafra’s Crisis of Faith The Spiritual Legacies of the Biafran War

Samuel F. C. DalyNovember 2, 2017

From pre-independence ethnic dog whistling, to pogroms, a civil war and the systemic socio-political ostracization that has since followed, the Igbo are the most discriminated ethnic group in Nigeria and ethnic bigotry against Igbo people has been on full display in the 2023 election.

BiafraOctober/November 2017