If you do not start from a point of truth and courage, you have a broken compass. What happened in Biafra was genocide, no ifs, no buts. I have always thought that as a (contrived) people, our cowardice is primeval and savage. The criminals who did this to millions of women, children and the defenseless are still alive as “statesmen.” The evil dead are immortalized in currency notes and their evil names adorn airports. I respect Pa Awolowo but I think he was not only wrong, he and Chief Anthony Enahoro are culpable in the genocide that was Biafra. I am not Igbo, not that it should matter, but I could tell you about what it meant to be caught in a war-zone (Benin City under the Biafran army occupation) at age 8, without your parents, tending to your six-year old brother while living in a two-room lean to of a distant relative. I could tell you that the terror lives with both of us to this day. Because war is hell.
Yes. the Nigerian civil war is infinitely more complicated than any book I have ever read can script it. My parents’ ancestral land is part of my experience but not in terms of a formal education. It is quite possible that without a free primary education powered by Pa Awolowo’s vision, I would not be here today. It is also true that many Biafran children are not with us today because Pa Awolowo denied them that which he offered me so generously; food, water and life. That is the absolute truth and Pa Awolowo confirmed it in the God awful (yes, awful) interview that many proudly brandish all over the place. It is impossible to forget Biafra, but today, Nigeria is in a very bad place, on many levels. Those that ruined our country are still strutting about handing us gobs of malu droppings. In the meantime in medieval places like Aluu, youths are slaughtered and burnt alive for allegedly stealing phones. Nigeria’s retired crooks are on social media tweeting quotes from Mahatma Gandhi. I mean, how difficult is it to say that the forced starvation of children and women was wrong?
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I have made it a duty to share this every year, until the need to share it no longer exists.
My ancestors' death will never be in vain.
Rest in Peace Heroes! 🙏 💪🏽
#BIAFRARmemorial#BiafraRememberance
May the souls of those who lost their lives during the Biafran war, including my grandfather, continue to rest peacefully.
We will never forget.
I will never forget.
Ozoemezina
#BiafraHeroesDay
Did You Know?
Bruce Mayrock, a 20-year-old Columbia University student, took his own life by setting himself on fire in front of the United Nations Building on 29th May 1969, to protest the genocide of Biafrans, people he had never met.
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This week embodies arguably the most consequential anniversaries in #Nigeria's post-colonial history.
On 27 May, 1967, Military Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, turned his mutual contretemps with the Military Governor of the Eastern Region, Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, into a territorial issue with the creation of 12 States out of the 4 regions of the country. Of the 12 States, 25% came from Ojukwu's Eastern Region.
In response, the Eastern Region's #LeadersOfThought who were in meeting in Enugu at the time went into an emergency session, at the end of which they called on Ojukwu to declare a secession by Biafra.
After 3 days, a besieged & reluctant Ojukwu acceded to their prompting & #OnThisDay in 1967 declared the birth of Biafra as a Republic, all but making war inevitable.
Two months later, the #ShootingWar began with the launch of hostilities in Gakem. They were to last 30 months thereafter.
The war ended with Biafra's capitulation on 15 Jan 1970. Nigeria won the war. But did it do enough to win the peace? Has the Civil War truly ended?
Today, I remember Biafra.
I remember the millions of lives lost to war, starvation, and disease. I remember the families torn apart, the communities destroyed, and the generations forced to rebuild from the ashes of unimaginable suffering.
I honor the soldiers who fought defending their people, and I honor the innocent men, women, and children who never made it home.
Biafra Day is not just about a war. It is about remembrance, resilience, and the refusal to let history be forgotten.
Despite the loss, despite the displacement, despite everything that was taken, we are still here. We endured. We rebuilt. We survived.
May the souls of the fallen rest in peace, and may their memories never be erased.
We Remember Our Fallen Heroes Today.
Dear Igbo Nation, today marks 56 years since we tragically lost over 4.5 million Igbo brothers and sisters to the Nigerian–Biafran War. They gallantly fought and died so that we might live. 🕊️
Let's Retweet in their memory. 🙏
The Cry Of A Mother!
A mother waits endlessly for her husband and children to return home, only to be consumed by the agony of becoming both widow and childless — victims of the evil meted out against Biafra by Nigeria’s greed.
Biafra Hero’s Day is a reminder to our generation, those that bombed and starved us to death are still calling for our heads today.
Our hero’s cry for freedom.
Today is Biafra Day
Before we post, argue, or scroll past the memories, maybe we should ask the people who lived through it:
For many families,Biafra was not just history.
It was an empty pot
A child waiting
A family leaving home
A father who left but never returned
#Biafra