Let's Talk Afro-Geopolitics II: The Future of the Nigerian State

[JahFocus CS]

I really do feel for the Igbo, the Biafran War was basically an attempted genocide

 

[The Singularity]

The Igbo will achieve their freedom one day.

 

[Frangala]

 

[The Plug]

the Biafran War was basically an attempted genocide

I'm Igbo, Enlighten me more on this.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

I'm Igbo, Enlighten me more on this.

The Igbo population before the war was around 9 million people. 1-2 million of us were starved to death on purpose to end the war.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

50 years on: Nigeria's Biafra secessionist movement

50 years on: Nigeria's Biafra secessionist movement
On Biafra Remembrance Day we ask pro-secessionist leader Nnamdi Kanu if the call for secession is growing louder.

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  Chika Oduah
  
  
  
  
  
  Umuahia, Nigeria - Nnamdi Kanu waves his hand and puffs in frustration: "Nothing seems to be working in Nigeria. There is pain and hardship everywhere. What we're fighting [for] is not self-determination for the sake of it. It's because Nigeria is not functioning and can never function."
  
  The leader of a group demanding the secession of southeastern Nigeria is speaking exclusively to Al Jazeera in the parlour of his father's home in the southeastern city of Umuahia.
  
  It's the first time he has spoken to an international media outlet since he was granted bail on health grounds last month. His bail conditions prohibit him from being in a crowd of more than 10 people, leaving the country and giving media interviews.
  
  But when asked if he is worried that he will get in trouble with the Nigerian authorities for speaking to Al Jazeera he scoffs, "I don't care," and rolls his eyes.
  
  "I can't go outside to call for a press conference. I can't go on Biafra Radio to broadcast. I can't allow large [groups of] people to basically congregate outside to see me … it's like asking me not to breathe," he says.
  
  On the other side of the parlour door, dozens of people are waiting to see Kanu. A throng of young men dressed in black guard the compound. They refer to Kanu as, "our supreme leader" or "his royal highness".
  
  Kanu left Nigeria to study economics and politics at the London Metropolitan University and started Radio Biafra, an obscure, niche, London-based radio station in 2009.
  
  In one broadcast, Kanu said: "We have one thing in common, all of us that believe in Biafra, one thing we have in common, a pathological hatred for Nigeria. I cannot begin to put into words how much I hate Nigeria."
  
  Over the past two years, Kanu's status has risen.
  
  Today, he's a highly visible activist and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) organisation, and after being imprisoned in the Nigerian capital of Abuja for nearly two years on treasonable felony charges, he has now returned home.
  
  "Kanu is my saviour," says Sopuru Amah, a senior student at one of Nigeria's oldest universities, the University of Nigeria in the southeastern city of Nsukka.
  
  "Just like Jesus was sent to save the world, Kanu was sent by God himself to save the Igbo people."
  

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

 

[EndDomination]

50 years on: Nigeria's Biafra secessionist movement

Was just about to post this in the thread.
Buhari is an absolute fool, you cannot allow petty regionalism and tribal affiliation to colour your developmental work of an entire nation-state.
He's acting like a Western leader
If the Niger Delta does develop a large-scale revolt, it would be an incredibly bloody-split within the state itself. Nigeria may be an amalgam of colonial doing, but co-existence should be possible. The bloody ethnic-cleansings of the past may completely stop that though.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Was just about to post this in the thread.
Buhari is an absolute fool, you cannot allow petty regionalism and tribal affiliation to colour your developmental work of an entire nation-state.
He's acting like a Western leader
If the Niger Delta does develop a large-scale revolt, it would be an incredibly bloody-split within the state itself. Nigeria may be an amalgam of colonial doing, but co-existence should be possible. The bloody ethnic-cleansings of the past may completely stop that though.

Nigeria is veering towards state failure. Buhari's failed Presidency has pushed it closer to the edge.

Boko Haram - undefeated
Niger Delta - renewed revolt
Shi'ites - Increasingly anti-gov't
Igbos - Approaching militancy for Biafra
Fulani herdsmen - Still murdering with impunity

 

[Thabo]

Was just about to post this in the thread.
Buhari is an absolute fool, you cannot allow petty regionalism and tribal affiliation to colour your developmental work of an entire nation-state.
He's acting like a Western leader
If the Niger Delta does develop a large-scale revolt, it would be an incredibly bloody-split within the state itself. Nigeria may be an amalgam of colonial doing, but co-existence should be possible. The bloody ethnic-cleansings of the past may completely stop that though.

Its impossible too much bad blood and they have nothing in common with each other.

 

[Thabo]

Nigeria is veering towards state failure. Buhari's failed Presidency has pushed it closer to the edge.

Boko Haram - undefeated
Niger Delta - renewed revolt
Shi'ites - Increasingly anti-gov't
Igbos - Approaching militancy for Biafra
Fulani herdsmen - Still murdering with impunity

Break-up will be for the best in the long run.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Break-up will be for the best in the long run.

Or at least a loose form of federalism so that a tax on beer doesn't support Islamic states which have banned alcohol consumption

 

[BigMan]

Nigeria will partition and many more will migrate to norf America.

My prediction