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

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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

 “In the three years of the war necessity gave birth to invention. During those three years of heroic bound, we leapt across the great chasm that separates knowledge from know-how. We built rocket, and we designed and built our own delivery systems. We guided our rockets. We guided them far; we guided them accurately. For three years, blockaded without hope of import, we maintained all our vehicles. The state extracted and refined petrol, individuals refined petrol in their back gardens. We built and maintained our airports, maintained them under heavy bombardment. Despite the heavy bombardment, we recovered so quickly after each raid that we were able to maintain the record for the busiest airport in the continent of Africa. We spoke to the world through telecommunication system engineered by local ingenuity; the world heard us and spoke back to us! . We built armored cars and tanks. We modified aircraft from trainer to fighters, from passenger aircraft to bombers. In the three years of freedom we had broken the technological barrier. In the three years we became the most civilized, the most technologically advanced black people on earth. We spurn nylon yarn; we developed new seeds for food and medicines….”

Comment:

Almost 40 years later, one is left imagining what could have been, considering what the Biafrans had managed to accomplish in 3 short years between 1967 and and 1970, under conditions that couldn't get more adverse, in an epoch where only a handful of nations, not burdened by war or adversity,  had equal ability and capability.

Yet, it is time to morph from imagination to anticipation: what Biafra barely started and achieved then, only to be interrupted, shall surely be re-visited and continually improved on, by Biafrans, in their own sovereign nation, in our modern times. Who knows how far they will go?

Stay tuned...