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

The British Connection

Through the eyes and experiences of a British citizen and former colonial officer (1955-1960) familiar with the creation of Nigeria and the surrounding politics, we learn finally what went wrong with Nigeria at least from the British side. Not that we did not have our own now-validated conclusions. 

Mr. Harold Smith of Turnpike House, Widbrook, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, BA15 1UD,, a candid and brave man, gave BAF authorization to re-publish his entire website, an account of, and reflections on, his stewardship for his country, Britain, in Nigeria, on our own site.

Treachery is one compelling theme throughout Mr. Smith's writings--the treachery of the British government at the time, demonstrated by:

• helping rig the first elections in Nigeria in 1959, in the favor of Northern Nigeria 
• partiality towards and preference for Muslim Northern Nigeria over South / Eastern Nigeria where British missionaries were establishing and proselytizing  Christianity 
• its knowledge that Nigeria was unworkable as one country, right from the start, but yet, continuing on with the creation of the country anyway
• acting to reverse the course of events which would have led to the disintegration of Nigeria after the Gowon coup and his "No basis for Nigerian unity" maiden speech
• supporting Northern Nigeria / the rest of Nigeria in the genocidal war against Biafra
• providing arms and personnel used to maintain a blockade against Biafra, resulting in the starvation of two million Biafrans
• continuing meddling in the affairs of the failing country of Nigeria

Mr. Smith attempts to prick the conscience of his people, the British, and their naive politicians, to understand and possibly show remorse for what the British government has wrought in that part of the world, by raising their consciousness through his writings.

So, we present to you, reproduced here in Biafraland website, Smith's Libertas website

: "... Libertas is dedicated to issues of freedom of information and in particular to treason by the British in Nigeria at the time of Independence and up to the present day..."

In "the present day," the British government is re-arming and training the Nigerian army, although it is well known that the Nigerian Army is now dominated and controlled by Northern Nigeria (since 1966) , Muslims with a deep, declared  sympathy for Osama bin Laden. It is also well known that the Nigerian Army has no external enemies, and as such,  are bound to use the armament against Southerners, especially Biafrans, inevitably.

The British government, perhaps having also extracted the backing of the EU,  has also convinced the US to train the Nigerian army.

Could the cost of this unnecessary militarization of Nigeria help defray Nigeria's  IMF debt obligations? Are we witnessing the continuation of the treachery of Britain in Nigeria? You be the judge.

Follow the link on the left panel to visit with Mr. Smith. I promise you that you will come out a changed person...