Reading Biafra What to Read on the Nigerian Civil War
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...
History
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...
A Laughing Giant The Everlasting Humour of Chinua Achebe
In 1998, Chinua Achebe, already by this time the father of modern African literature by several accounts, introduced himself with a joke.
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.