I was in Lagos in summer of 1968. I knew ibos personally. They were outstanding people. What the US and Britain did to them - allying with the Nigerian government - was unforgivable. If you live on oil rich land you are not safe.
@tamaraye7110 as I understand it, there was oil discovered on their land but that might not have been the main reason for wanting to secede. I am told they were more industrious than the other tribes (Yoruba and Hausa) and just wanted independence. The fact they had oil was why the Nigerian government did want them to secede. If I had been the Nigerian government I would not want them to secede either.
@@tamaraye7110 I did not know this 1968 when I visited Lagos. I heard all of this information second hand from Americans who sympathized with Biafra. I must do some research. Thank you for providing facts to me. I very much appreciate it.
It was not brothers against brothers during Biafra war, it was totally different ppl fighting against each other, because British interest brought those people together by force.
All the events that led to the civil war and genocide against the Biafrans are still present till this day and has infact gotten much worse. The eastern part of nigeria (Biafra) is heavily militarized till this day and the Igbo ethnic groups are mostly excluded from national appointments. nigeria has now become a killing field not only to the Igbo but also other ethnic minority groups.
Thank you so much as a Nigerian 🇳🇬 I knew little about the Biafra war. Didn’t even know Biafra existed as a country. Unfortunately Nigeria is still heavily ethnically divided and the northerners exert superiority till this day. 😢
Well summarised Tatenda But let me say the words of former SPLA Leader John Garang saying to former president of Sudan Gaafar Nimeiry in Khaturom "we are not trying to seccede from the government but we want you to make unity attractive to us but if you don't we will separate and create our own state and that will make us weak."
I would highly recommend you look into the life of Carl Gustaf von Rosen. He was a Swedish man that got involved in the Nigerian civil war (and several other conflicts in Africa). He fought for Biafra, using a small single seater plane with rocket launchers attacked to the wings to attack Nigerian airfields, and in some cases having to evade Nigerian jets in his plane. He was a very interesting figure who initially went to Africa to do humanitarian work but eventually started taking part in conflicts, usually on the underdogs side. I don't know if you would really call him a mercenary, if anything I think he spent more money on his adventures than he made.
5:19 sounds like what a people who envy those who toil and better themselves rather than try to do better sound the world over. Mentality of crabs. A pot of crabs are more concerned with pulling the ones that are climbing out. back into the pot rather than climbing out themselves too. " If you put them in a camp of workers, they will try to become the supervisors ..... " Surprised that the man thinks what requires brains and hardwork like its an evil thing.
@theallseeingeye9388. I dont know Why he has an unsettling obsession with them. He seems to maybe have an inferiority complex. All the guys that fought for our independence are championed as heroes and glazed like gods, they're human too and they make mistakes.
Thank you for this comment. I always wondered about that statement; like aren't beings supposed to thrive to be better and grow? So weird that was his issue.
We should dearly like to see the complete, total, & uncompromising independence of Biafra & her oppressed sons & daughters ! Cry out ! For a FREE Biafra !…
What you and your tribe did have come back to you and your so called Nigeria without meaning in ur language 1967 till today is back in evil Nigeria now this is the beginning Tinubu or no Tinubu Nigeria is going down of no returns and other tribes and their youths and next generation this is the beginning more evil is coming and will happen in evil Nigeria without meaning in ur language
Igbos deserve their freedom, they are a very endeavoring people. Biafra would have been an exemplary nation like Botswana if neo colonialism hadn't gotten in the way.
damn, that's a lot of people dead for some oil, but it wasn't that simple. It was a people who thought they had a right to themselves and things got complicated real fast. the countries troubles aren't over. hopefully things can heal, i truly hope they do.
I see you conveniently ignored the reprisal killings and expulsion of northerners from the eastern region. Very disappointing. There was regrettable violence on both sides I was hoping you would have highlighted that.
This is false, drop your source. The easterners for all we know before the actual war was defending themselves. The war was brought to their door step and this doesn't account for the ethnic cleansing that drove them away from northern parts of Nigeria.
There where other ethnic groups in the south who are not igbos that didnt want to be part of Biafra they where either called Traitors and killed or forcefully evacuated from their villages in the coastal regions by Biafran soldiers.
The more I look into the history of Nigeria briefly after independence the more I see the northerners of this time as effectively crabs in a bucket trying to keep down any sort of southern economic or political freedom and expansion even in their own states while funneling money extracted from the south to the north. The small portion of oil revenues that Nigeria maintains through their connection to BP and Shell only seems to go northward, the government is mostly made up of northerners who impose laws and rules on the southerners who (seemingly) only seek to make Nigeria at large better for everyone after years of rapidly worsening corruption and the monopolisation of state power making the Yoruba and Igbo into subordinate tribes of the northern Hausa. And then, when they naturally get angry and attempt to fix the system via violence as they’ve been disenfranchised and made incapable of self governance, Northern government officials unofficially allow mass ethnic violence and seek to destroy any sort of independence movement as they're sitting on top of resources the North didnt want to lose. Its literally imperialism but on a smaller scale, a big ethnic group subjugating others and holding them in their sphere of influence. Biafra is only not independent because of military violence to keep exploiting resources for the rest of the nations benefit to their detriment it seems
Awolowo was released by Ojukwu not Gowon. When lies are told for more than two years, it becomes true. Please correct that misrepresentation. We Biafrans and by December 2 , 2024. We will re-declare the Biafra sovereign state, we have already started delegitimizing Nigeria in Biafraland. To be a Nigerian is not by force. #FreeBiafra
Secret hidden, the Hausa/Fulani, Yoruba and Igbo in this unprecedented history of Nigeria were strategic political reforms, that represent not all the interests legitimate to the whole indigenous people of Nigeria. Today, due to this political manipulation and long standing lies, political unrest, waves of cultural and traditional disparities keep unfolding. Proper definition of Nigeria needs to be given and made publicly to the people of Nigeria for the interest of all ethnic groups. Only if that that the people demand is done, there will be peace and cooperation amongst the Nigerian people. Note also, that the history of Nigeria civil war is incomplete in this presentation. The Igbo's war was second. The Ijaw's was the first. Go back to full history. Thnks
North African Moors, invaded, took, and colonised Spain, long before any European colonialism. Black Muslim pirates were selling white slaves from Europe on the Barberry coast, at exactly the same time as the transatlantic slave trade, took place. Only, again, you'll never hear anything about that factual history.
Major deflection of responsibility nobody forced any European to indulge in human enslavement, through out history different civilizations were guilty of human mistreatment of various means , but the transatlantic slave trade in its own time displayed cruelty that most wouldnt dare to imagine, the bitterness from this displacement n destruction of a race is still causing social and economic issues today.
@oluwoleifabiyi2933 slavery is evil period. But i find it illogical that only transatlanstic slave trade seems to have had such impact on Africa. But not The Arabian slave trade lasted more than twice as long from around 1300 and only ended around 1930s. with black males being far and large castrated so that they wont breed with the local women before they were brought into Muslim domains ? Is this a case of what you dont know cant hurt you?
@@Liam-cn3kd Because if you actually listened to the Video, he is blaming it on the Colonialists, just like they blame absolutely everything else, on Colonialism. I'm merely pointing out the facts, we have never seen spoken about, facts, that prove it was not Europe that first began colonialism, but Africans themselves! It was not the European Colonialists that began the slave trade, but again, the Africans themselves, (and at the very same time of the Transatlantic slave trade). White Europeans were being sold as slaves in the Barberry coast, by black Muslim Berber Pirates. They carried out endless raids on European coastal towns and villages, mainly in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, the British Isles, the Netherlands, and Iceland. And my point is, maybe if they all took some of the responsibility on to themselves, as they should, then, they'd not all feel so bitter? But no, all they want to do is cry about long gone history. And for what, exactly? None of us, today, are responsible for anything throughout history, we can only be responsible for ourselves and our own actions, not for the actions of others. So, again, what will it ever achieve? Nothing, it just keeps everything going, rather than moving on, and if you want to get intro the ethics of it? We, unbelievably today, see many removing statues of many various people throughout history, because that person kept slaves all those years ago. So, the logic, apparently, is to just remove those people from history, right? Yet history is how we all learn? If you remove them, then people forget, and start to make the same errors again, so by removing them, you'll only see it again, as it's forgotten history. This really is the level of intelligence we are seeing today, there just is none, as you prove yourself, by making such a ridiculously stupid comment.
I’d like to have a look more into precolonical Africa. Like the Zulu Empire has a pretty cool history, there’s also the Mali Empire and I’ve always found Mwanga II, the last king of pre colonial Buganda, quite interesting in his resistance to British colonial rule. Also despite insistence by Museveni that homosexuality was imported by Britain, he was openly bisexual which I think gives some insight as to how European homophobia and transphobia still impacts Africa today by denying these figures.
Thank you Tatenda for narrating our story. Love the way you pronounced the Igbo towns and cities 💯
Couple with falsehood
I was in Lagos in summer of 1968. I knew ibos personally. They were outstanding people. What the US and Britain did to them - allying with the Nigerian government - was unforgivable. If you live on oil rich land you are not safe.
The rich oil land didn’t belong to the igbos.
@tamaraye7110 as I understand it, there was oil discovered on their land but that might not have been the main reason for wanting to secede. I am told they were more industrious than the other tribes (Yoruba and Hausa) and just wanted independence. The fact they had oil was why the Nigerian government did want them to secede. If I had been the Nigerian government I would not want them to secede either.
@ where in igbo land was oil discovered as of the 1960s tell me
@ the oil mostly came from the region of the ijaws the people in the coastal area who didn’t even want to be part of the so called Biafra.
@@tamaraye7110 I did not know this 1968 when I visited Lagos. I heard all of this information second hand from Americans who sympathized with Biafra. I must do some research. Thank you for providing facts to me. I very much appreciate it.
Biafra sovereignty must be restored ❤❤🎉
Thank you @Africanbiographics, for your Unbiased Narration.
Very detailed and informative, I've seen the Biafran flag before but did not know the history behind it. Looking forward to the next premiere, cheers!
Thank you so much and I am glad that the video added value :)
What country are you from?
It was not brothers against brothers during Biafra war, it was totally different ppl fighting against each other, because British interest brought those people together by force.
All the events that led to the civil war and genocide against the Biafrans are still present till this day and has infact gotten much worse. The eastern part of nigeria (Biafra) is heavily militarized till this day and the Igbo ethnic groups are mostly excluded from national appointments. nigeria has now become a killing field not only to the Igbo but also other ethnic minority groups.
We appreciate your insights more than you can imagine buddy
Thanks 🎉
Great Job Tatenda! You summarized it well.
My brother, Tatenda, I enjoyed your work. Well done brother.
This is well detailed ❤
Thank you so much as a Nigerian 🇳🇬 I knew little about the Biafra war. Didn’t even know Biafra existed as a country. Unfortunately Nigeria is still heavily ethnically divided and the northerners exert superiority till this day. 😢
Wow?!!!
Just wow!!!
Great video
We are Biafran we can never be one Nigeria,, Biafra nation is what we want
Great job, hope one day u do extensive series about African Queens eg Lozikeyi Dlodlo of Ndebele, Queen Nzinga Angola etc
Thanks for the suggestion
Well summarised Tatenda
But let me say the words of former SPLA Leader John Garang saying to former president of Sudan Gaafar Nimeiry in Khaturom "we are not trying to seccede from the government but we want you to make unity attractive to us but if you don't we will separate and create our own state and that will make us weak."
Thank you love the interesting history you cover
Excellent and informative with great pictures-
"Who hates colonial borders?"
(All raising hand enthusiastically)
"Who wants to have more ethnically/culturally aligned borders?"
(Awkward silence)
That is the right way to go especially as it concerns Africa. These failed geographical expressions have not served Africans well.
I would highly recommend you look into the life of Carl Gustaf von Rosen. He was a Swedish man that got involved in the Nigerian civil war (and several other conflicts in Africa). He fought for Biafra, using a small single seater plane with rocket launchers attacked to the wings to attack Nigerian airfields, and in some cases having to evade Nigerian jets in his plane. He was a very interesting figure who initially went to Africa to do humanitarian work but eventually started taking part in conflicts, usually on the underdogs side. I don't know if you would really call him a mercenary, if anything I think he spent more money on his adventures than he made.
As a white European I find your posts very interesting, thank you.
Still agitation for independent state of Biafra is still ongoing in the eastern Nigeria till date, at last Biafra must be restored a promise land
Nigerian bloodlest civili war between the Nigeria army and the Biafra liberation army as taken place in 1967 to 1970
Excellent content. Keep it up!
Detailed Great coverage God bless you Biafra high respect icon's
Where can I find the image at 0:08 of the man with the missiles on his head? That is a stellar photograph
Search for Biafran War on Reddit and you will find it there
Long live Biafra
Love you General Ojukwu
I vaguely recall news reports of this from my childhood.
5:19 sounds like what a people who envy those who toil and better themselves rather than try to do better sound the world over.
Mentality of crabs.
A pot of crabs are more concerned with pulling the ones that are climbing out. back into the pot rather than climbing out themselves too.
" If you put them in a camp of workers, they will try to become the supervisors ..... "
Surprised that the man thinks what requires brains and hardwork like its an evil thing.
@theallseeingeye9388.
I dont know Why he has an unsettling obsession with them. He seems to maybe have an inferiority complex.
All the guys that fought for our independence are championed as heroes and glazed like gods, they're human too and they make mistakes.
Normally the north never loved the igbos from the day s before amalgamation .
Thank you for this comment. I always wondered about that statement; like aren't beings supposed to thrive to be better and grow? So weird that was his issue.
Biafra must come
great video!
:-)
A documentary on Ojukwu will be nice
That bastard
@@adezichris3051you lack any iota of intellect.
@@adezichris3051because you are a yorubastard
@@adezichris3051 the b@stard was awolowo
😂😂😂@@adezichris3051
Biafra must come ❤️✝️
Nigeria’s leaders failed it spectacularly
From India, love your pithy style of narration ❤
We should dearly like to see the complete, total, & uncompromising independence of Biafra & her oppressed sons & daughters ! Cry out ! For a FREE Biafra !…
What a mind blowingly complicated history. Amazing that Nigeria remains a strong, united country today. You all have to sink or swim together.
What you and your tribe did have come back to you and your so called Nigeria without meaning in ur language 1967 till today is back in evil Nigeria now this is the beginning Tinubu or no Tinubu Nigeria is going down of no returns and other tribes and their youths and next generation this is the beginning more evil is coming and will happen in evil Nigeria without meaning in ur language
Igbos deserve their freedom, they are a very endeavoring people. Biafra would have been an exemplary nation like Botswana if neo colonialism hadn't gotten in the way.
All hail Biafra
What is happening surpasses the war. THIS HOUSE HAS FALLEN
You can attribute Wikipedia too brother. It may not be reliable but it can be trusted because it's not based on truth but based on facts.
Im confused on how facts and truth are different
😂
Don't let nobody divided United
Great video, but please refrain from using AI generated images, it removes authenticity from your work!
Thanks
damn, that's a lot of people dead for some oil, but it wasn't that simple. It was a people who thought they had a right to themselves and things got complicated real fast. the countries troubles aren't over. hopefully things can heal, i truly hope they do.
"Everyone was good and living... Then some colonial power invaded"
Quest for the restoration of sovereign independent republic of Biafra
❤
I see you conveniently ignored the reprisal killings and expulsion of northerners from the eastern region. Very disappointing. There was regrettable violence on both sides I was hoping you would have highlighted that.
Thanks for this feedback
This is false, drop your source. The easterners for all we know before the actual war was defending themselves. The war was brought to their door step and this doesn't account for the ethnic cleansing that drove them away from northern parts of Nigeria.
Another aboki liar spotted. Which northerners were expelled? Bunch of narcissistic liars.
Sh$t up no their wasn’t Igbos fought back I don’t understand you people you hate Igbos but you don’t want us to have our own nation what do you want
Nzeogwu is an igbo and not from kaduna
Isnt he from like Delta. They claim not to be Igbo.
Yes. His name was Kaduna and I think he grew up there but he was from Delta and igbo
That list of Belligerents is wild.
🎉🎉
My country😮😮
There where other ethnic groups in the south who are not igbos that didnt want to be part of Biafra they where either called Traitors and killed or forcefully evacuated from their villages in the coastal regions by Biafran soldiers.
We wanted one thing economic freedom they hated us for that
You be mumu man
@@adezichris3051you lack any iota of intellect.
@@adezichris3051Like ur fada
@@adezichris3051Your display of ignorance is outstanding.
The more I look into the history of Nigeria briefly after independence the more I see the northerners of this time as effectively crabs in a bucket trying to keep down any sort of southern economic or political freedom and expansion even in their own states while funneling money extracted from the south to the north. The small portion of oil revenues that Nigeria maintains through their connection to BP and Shell only seems to go northward, the government is mostly made up of northerners who impose laws and rules on the southerners who (seemingly) only seek to make Nigeria at large better for everyone after years of rapidly worsening corruption and the monopolisation of state power making the Yoruba and Igbo into subordinate tribes of the northern Hausa. And then, when they naturally get angry and attempt to fix the system via violence as they’ve been disenfranchised and made incapable of self governance, Northern government officials unofficially allow mass ethnic violence and seek to destroy any sort of independence movement as they're sitting on top of resources the North didnt want to lose.
Its literally imperialism but on a smaller scale, a big ethnic group subjugating others and holding them in their sphere of influence. Biafra is only not independent because of military violence to keep exploiting resources for the rest of the nations benefit to their detriment it seems
In nigeria robbed off Biafra
Awolowo was released by Ojukwu not Gowon. When lies are told for more than two years, it becomes true. Please correct that misrepresentation. We Biafrans and by December 2 , 2024. We will re-declare the Biafra sovereign state, we have already started delegitimizing Nigeria in Biafraland. To be a Nigerian is not by force. #FreeBiafra
@African Biographics
, you dont live in africa, do you? most likely you live in Europe.
No Ibo man was killed! And now the Ibos wants everyone to be quiet about it funny.
What do you want to do ??? Mumu
Biafra will rise again
Secret hidden, the Hausa/Fulani, Yoruba and Igbo in this unprecedented history of Nigeria were strategic political reforms, that represent not all the interests legitimate to the whole indigenous people of Nigeria. Today, due to this political manipulation and long standing lies, political unrest, waves of cultural and traditional disparities keep unfolding. Proper definition of Nigeria needs to be given and made publicly to the people of Nigeria for the interest of all ethnic groups. Only if that that the people demand is done, there will be peace and cooperation amongst the Nigerian people.
Note also, that the history of Nigeria civil war is incomplete in this presentation. The Igbo's war was second. The Ijaw's was the first. Go back to full history. Thnks
33:01 OBJ😂
African respect self 55 countries don't let nobody divided you or disrespect
😡😭
Unfortunately nothing has changed 😂
North African Moors, invaded, took, and colonised Spain, long before any European colonialism. Black Muslim pirates were selling white slaves from Europe on the Barberry coast, at exactly the same time as the transatlantic slave trade, took place. Only, again, you'll never hear anything about that factual history.
Major deflection of responsibility nobody forced any European to indulge in human enslavement, through out history different civilizations were guilty of human mistreatment of various means , but the transatlantic slave trade in its own time displayed cruelty that most wouldnt dare to imagine, the bitterness from this displacement n destruction of a race is still causing social and economic issues today.
Why the fuck would he cover this in a video about the Nigerian Civil War
@oluwoleifabiyi2933 slavery is evil period.
But i find it illogical that only transatlanstic slave trade seems to have had such impact on Africa.
But not The Arabian slave trade lasted more than twice as long from around 1300 and only ended around 1930s. with black males being far and large castrated so that they wont breed with the local women before they were brought into Muslim domains ?
Is this a case of what you dont know cant hurt you?
@@Liam-cn3kd Because if you actually listened to the Video, he is blaming it on the Colonialists, just like they blame absolutely everything else, on Colonialism.
I'm merely pointing out the facts, we have never seen spoken about, facts, that prove it was not Europe that first began colonialism, but Africans themselves!
It was not the European Colonialists that began the slave trade, but again, the Africans themselves, (and at the very same time of the Transatlantic slave trade). White Europeans were being sold as slaves in the Barberry coast, by black Muslim Berber Pirates.
They carried out endless raids on European coastal towns and villages, mainly in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, the British Isles, the Netherlands, and Iceland.
And my point is, maybe if they all took some of the responsibility on to themselves, as they should, then, they'd not all feel so bitter? But no, all they want to do is cry about long gone history.
And for what, exactly? None of us, today, are responsible for anything throughout history, we can only be responsible for ourselves and our own actions, not for the actions of others. So, again, what will it ever achieve? Nothing, it just keeps everything going, rather than moving on, and if you want to get intro the ethics of it?
We, unbelievably today, see many removing statues of many various people throughout history, because that person kept slaves all those years ago. So, the logic, apparently, is to just remove those people from history, right?
Yet history is how we all learn? If you remove them, then people forget, and start to make the same errors again, so by removing them, you'll only see it again, as it's forgotten history. This really is the level of intelligence we are seeing today, there just is none, as you prove yourself, by making such a ridiculously stupid comment.
Even the censorship is designed to keep you all from learning anything.
as a Nigerian I think we Africans should unites and stay away from the westerm monsters
Western monsters😂😂😂😂
You have no f##king idea. Smh.
Hold your leaders accountable,not the west. You can't be a victim forever.
I’d like to have a look more into precolonical Africa. Like the Zulu Empire has a pretty cool history, there’s also the Mali Empire and I’ve always found Mwanga II, the last king of pre colonial Buganda, quite interesting in his resistance to British colonial rule. Also despite insistence by Museveni that homosexuality was imported by Britain, he was openly bisexual which I think gives some insight as to how European homophobia and transphobia still impacts Africa today by denying these figures.
All hail Biafra