“We Remember Differently” What Really Happened in Biafra?
50 years since the war and several perspectives later, Nigeria lacks a standard narrative on Biafra. What really happened during the war?
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October/November 2017
Biafra and the Politics of Blame The Neo-Biafran Consciousness and Its Challenges
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...
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
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.
Remembering Biafra Violence and Nigeria's Long Road to Redemption
The Biafran War, which took place between 1967 and 1970, represents a very dark time in Nigerian history. It was a tragedy that exceeded conceivable imagination.
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.