Nigeria. My mom was a child when the Biafran war was going on. From what she told me, the U.S. reached out to the Brits to see if they could help and the Brits said no and just let the tribes fight it out. I'm sure there was some economic motive there. My mom saw dead bodies and one of my uncles even got separated from the family, then reunited later. They really thought he either got kidnapped or killed, or probably got forced to fight. It was way before my time, so I'm just going by my mom's experience. Doesn't seem like there was much supporting going . If I'm forced to choose sides, it's still fuck Biafra.
I did a little reading on it, and it seems that the socialist perspective is that the British assisted the Nigerians in blockading Biafra after an anti-Igbo progrom was carried out by the north? Britain's main concern was oil exports for BP.
As for Biafra, it seems like a handful of military generals and rich elites decided to start the whole thing after using ethnic and religious conflict as a casus belli to secede.
Huge clusterfuck. If you have any better info hit me up
Nigeria. My mom was a child when the Biafran war was going on. From what she told me, the U.S. reached out to the Brits to see if they could help and the Brits said no and just let the tribes fight it out. I'm sure there was some economic motive there. My mom saw dead bodies and one of my uncles even got separated from the family, then reunited later. They really thought he either got kidnapped or killed, or probably got forced to fight. It was way before my time, so I'm just going by my mom's experience. Doesn't seem like there was much supporting going . If I'm forced to choose sides, it's still fuck Biafra.
I did a little reading on it, and it seems that the socialist perspective is that the British assisted the Nigerians in blockading Biafra after an anti-Igbo progrom was carried out by the north? Britain's main concern was oil exports for BP.
As for Biafra, it seems like a handful of military generals and rich elites decided to start the whole thing after using ethnic and religious conflict as a casus belli to secede.
Huge clusterfuck. If you have any better info hit me up
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