The Politics of Biafra

The Politics of Biafra is a reflection on the importance of history in addressing present realities and the future co-existence of Nigeria's multi ethnic society. It analyzes the ideological struggles and conflict in Biafra during the war with Nigeria from 1967-1970 the impact of the war and the relevance of those struggles to the current agitations for a new state of Biafra. In this historical and analytical work the author observes that nearly fifty years after the end of the Nigeria-Biafra war in 1970 Nigeria remains confronted with the Biafra dilemma. No matter its pretensions Nigeria will at some point have to reform its present pseudo federal arrangement to create a more inclusive equitable and proper federal structure. If not the country will continue to face epileptic developmental thrusts militancy in the Niger Delta and a ruinous intensifying clamor for self-determination by disadvantaged ethnic groups especially the Igbo. Appendix - Three part essay by Professor Chukwuma Soludo.