In the News...

Biafra Provisional Government Announcement at the Washington DC National Press Club: August 28 2007
"Dream of free Biafra revives in southeast Nigeria" by Estelle Shirbon Reuters July 10 2006 Washington Post
Excerpts: "...the idea of an independent Ibo homeland has regained strength in recent years...A separatist group, the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), formed in 1999 and has drawn increasing support, especially among young people..."We have many graduates in Biafra but many of them are in the market pushing wheelbarrows because they don't have anything else,"..."We should have our own country so everyone can have the opportunity to show what they can do," ...Full Article

ALERT! Emerging Genocide in Nigeria ALERT!  June 29 2006 by CWIS (Center for World Indigenous Studies)
Urgent intervention must be initiated now to prevent massive, government sanctioned killings [of the Igbo and Biafrans by the Nigerian armed forces]...  Full Article

New on Biafraland.com...

See also the "ageless":

Biafra Charter
Biafra on You Tube
International Support for Biafra, 2006
Chronicle of MASSOB Casualties, victims of the Nigeria Police and Nigerian Armed Security Agents.
Human Rights Watch and Human Reports, August 2005--"Nigeria: Obasanjo Confirms Torture, Killing by Police
Requiem for Nigeria: The Last of Africa’s Pseudo-Federations
Marginalization of Igbo-Biafraland by Nigeria: a succint testimony by a non-Igbo
Biafra Currency: Biafra never dies--current money circulation and a history of Biafra threaded through Biafra Currency
Worldwide Demonstrations (WWD) May 27 2005: A report of pro-Biafra worldwide protests
US Intelligence predicts total collapse of Nigeria within 15 years: we could've told them that
Mid-year Evaluation and Update on MASSOB and Case for Biafra: 2005: an email to BAF
Clippings from 2005: Telling the story of failing--with words in slow motion
2005: the diary continues
3 Incredible Years of Biafra--excerpt from one of Dim Ojukwu's speeches.
MASSOB, 2004: Why MASSOB? and MASSOB post-August 26 in the words of MASSOB leader in interviews
August 26: "This changes everything"--Biafrans stunning success at civil disobedience (2004)
Sovereign National Conference  (with Honesty)--a three-part essay.
Human Rights Report--Nigeria, 2003.
Ironsi, 1966--2004 on Aguiyi Ironsi
1968: The American Jewish Report on Biafra, December 1968.
NEWS ANALYSIS: Posted every Saturday--fresh stuff: don't miss!!
April 17, 2004 message following up on Communiqué from the first International Conference on Biafra (Oct 18, 2003) 
New Year Message to the People and Nation of Biafra 2004 from Biafra Foundation (BF)--text
New Year 2004 Message -- the full broadcast--Audio
Biafra Conference 2003: Conference proceedings of the first postwar International Conference on Biafra, Oct 2003, USA
Road to Perdition: General Obasanjo drags, pushes and forces Nigeria along...
2004: A running diary of salient events of the year, 2004
Grim Reminders: Quotes from news accounts of the genocide against Biafra during 1966-1970
June 1967: another look at history

...and the first postwar international Conference on Biafra was held (October 18) in Greenbelt, Maryland, USA;...

...even 37 years later (counting from 1966) we get a recapitulation of the state of affairs of Biafrans in Nigeria in the very words--accurate and true--of a December 29th, 2003 applicant for membership to Biafra Actualization Forum (BAF). Thus, we close out the year 2003 being reminded of our burden as Biafrans in the hellish so-called country of Nigeria:

        "...[I] wish to apply as a member of the Biafra Actualization Forum. I have been following the various events that have taken place in Nigeria before and after independence.Infact, if I were older and politically aware in the early sixties I would have fought on the Biafran side.NDIGBO have been unjustly treated and dehumanized in this failed nation-state called Nigeria.We are still being maltreated and there does not seem to be an end to it. We are hardworking, enterprising, dynamic, intelligent, creative and highly talented people.If we remain in this apatheid enclave we will not be able to utilize maximallly our God given potentials for the benefit of our children and humanity.
   The death of over 2 million Biafrans cannot and will not be in vain.To this end,Biafra must be actualized albeit through peaceful means. It is with these feelings and a sense of solidarity that I have decided to join the BAF.I am from [...] in Anambra State.I studied Computer Sciences at our beloved University Of BIAFRA.I am presently working as a Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer in a software firm here in Lagos.
   I promise to contribute in my own little way to the Biafran cause.I shall readily furnish you with any further information you may require about me.
   Fraternally Yours,.."

...but as we transition to the year 2004, catch the new Spirit of Biafrans as we live that Spirit in the accurate and paradigmatic words of another applicant for BAF membership, (December 31st 2003):

        "...Dear Sir,
[I] am the son of the soil but no identity i konw that you mighty ask Sir "how?" why i say i have no identity is that i am not yet a registered member  of biafra so my question Sir is that how can i be registered as a member?..."

The wisdom of the author of this application brings to light the paradigm for Biafra and Biafrans in 2004 and beyond: we must reclaim and assert our identify as Biafrans. We must acknowledge our Biafra-ness; we must be true to what we, as Biafrans are; and we must begin to live it. 

2004 is all about "registering" our identity as Biafrans--formalizing our God-given identity. 2004 is the year that we begin to show that we truly are Biafrans, and to be proud of our Biafran heritage.

As such there is no better way to end 2003 and to start 2004.