Biafra’s Back
More than 50 years after the end of the civil war, there’s a new generation of Biafran separatists in Nigeria.
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Earlier this year, a video posted to Nigerian social media showed Donald Trump, in the Oval Office, promising to “liberate the Igbo people of Biafra.” The clip was AI generated, but it quickly circulated amid the reopening of one of Nigeria’s deepest historical wounds. In 1967, after a pogrom against Igbos in the north, Nigeria’s […]
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