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The Erased Majority: What Happened to the Black Population of South America? Lawson Akhigbe
Walk through the streets of Salvador, Brazil, and you'll hear the drums of Candomblé echoing from centuries-old terreiros. You'll see women in white lace selling acarajé, a fried bean cake brought to South America by enslaved West African women. You'll notice that the vast majority of faces around you are Black. Now walk through Buenos …
What my father taught me about Biafra and my heritage by Ije Ajibade
‘Biafra is a dream that haunts me – it was a dream that was on the cusp of being realised and yet failed so painfully,’ recalls Ije Ajibade, telling the story of injustice that has shaped her life 1 day ago My earliest memories of Biafra are the same as my earliest memories of my father. I can …
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Absolutely Nothing
If you could have something named after you, what would it be? One does not have the Trumpian urge to plaster one’s name on buildings and allied products. Happily one isn’t a narcissistic moron.
The July 1966 Counter-Coup: The Coup That Broke Nigeria by Lawson Akhigbe
The July 29, 1966, counter-coup in Nigeria was not merely a change of government; it was a seismic event that shattered the fragile unity of the young nation, reversed the political order, and set the country on an inexorable path to civil war. Occurring just seven months after the violent January 15 coup, the July …
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U.S. Classified Files Reveal Untold Story Of Ojukwu, Biafra By Americans, Others by Chibiko Ikenna Offor
Secret American diplomatic dispatches, spread over 21,000 pages, provide previously unknown information about the Nigerian Civil War Early in the morning of 1 July 1967, Nigeria’s young head of state, Colonel Yakubu Gowon, was feeling uneasy in his office at the Supreme Headquarters, Dodan Barracks in Lagos. The unease was a result of his being …
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