Women of Biafra

 

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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

 


 

 
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Women of Biafra

1. Calling the women of Biafra...


"In 1929, when the British colonial government using warrant chiefs tried to tax our grandmothers, Nwanyeruwa started the Aba Women's Revolution. She and other women mobilized women all over Eastern Nigeria and they deposed, sacked and imprisoned warrant chief Okugo. Then they sacked other warrant chiefs and district offices in Owerri, Aba, Bende, Ikot Ekpene, Calabar, Opobo, Ahoada, and Port Harcourt.

If our grandmothers could stop the British, we can certainly stop our own wayward sons and daughters who have chosen to eat and sleep with Satan. We must organize and mobilize ourselves now. We must organize in our churches, markets, villages, towns and clubs. These people are killing our future..."


A strong heritage of bravery, strength and courage. A strong tradition of wisdom and intelligence. A well documented history of activism...

Voice of Biafra International (VOBI) broadcasts has sent out a call to arms to the women of Biafra. Follow the links in the left panel for the transcript.


 

2. Recalling the women of Biafra's role during  the Biafran War of Survival.


If not for the women of Biafra and their courage, the Biafran race and nation would have been completely annihilated during the Biafran War of Survival of 1967-1970. We know of no other group of women in history who suffered more than the women of Biafra, as they saw their spouses leave for war, many never to return;  watched their children suffer and slowly die of starvation right in front of their eyes, and witnessed their families pine away to nothing. What agony!

No one but they can tell whence their strength and courage derive, such tenacity as would sustain them through this harrowing ordeal and allow them to rebuild and nurture to maturity and to humanity once again, present-day Biafra, from death and nothingness.

We salute you, oh Women of Biafra! Your Chi has made you as strong as Chi.

Now, we take you to a website outside of Biafraland.com so that you may read and see what the women of Biafra lived and died through. But, we must warn you: this exercise is not for the weak of stomach nor the faint of heart because some of what you will see is quite disturbing--this we can guarantee. Nevertheless, the rest of it is enlightening and uplifting--this, too, we can guarantee.

Click here to go to: "THESE WOMEN ARE BRAVE"
(Use the back- arrow to return to Biafraland.com when done.)