Biafra, an endless slaughter
By saying “Biafra”, you might think to the pathetic humanitarian advertising from the 70s, in which swollen-bellied-babies served as unaware receptors for moved-hearted-donators, mismanaged by the international cooperation. The aftermath of the three years of war between the Nigerian government and the self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra, from 1967 to 1970, reached three million deaths and, in the decades to come, it caused repression and discrimination towards people of the Igbo ethnic group. As a consequence of this, a mass exodus occurred from the Niger Delta area and the South-East to Lagos and, above all, to the West. A large diaspora…
