“We Remember Differently” What Really Happened in Biafra
"It is incontestable that the British not only made Nigeria, but also hand it to us whole on their surrender of power. But the Nigeria, which they handed over t... Read More...
October/November 2017
Biafra and the Politics of Blame The Neo-Biafran Consciousness and Its Challenges
In recent years, there has been an upsurge in campaigns advocating for the recognition and reinstitution of a Biafran State. The demands have come from individu... Read More...
The Great Unravelling The Disintegration of the Nigerian State
Ever since the end of Nigeria’s three-year civil war in 1970—a costly conflict that consumed an estimated three million lives—the nightmare scenario for the nat... Read More...
The Current State of AIDS And the Future of Global Security
On the 10th of January 2000, on an unusually warm morning in New York, the United Nations Security Council convened to debate a pertinent security issue describ... Read More...
Agitating the State Biafran Money, Memes and Mobility
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...
Biafra’s Crisis of Faith The Spiritual Legacies of the Biafran War
The flood of writing attending the fiftieth anniversary of the Nigerian Civil War has found a place for Biafra in many histories, ranging from the birth of poli... Read More...
Remembering Biafra Violence and Nigeria's Long Road to Redemption
"1966, the year before the Biafran War became a real thing, my father moved the family from Enugu to Sapele, leaving behind my mother, who refused to travel to ... Read More...
African Mobilities Olalekan Jeyifous Public Lecture
Join artist, Olalekan Jeyifous, as he explores how architecture responds to the complexity of African mobilities—beyond the figure of the refugee.