Osita Ebiem is a pro-Israel, Igbo writer, activist, and thought leader. in order to feel relevant and shore up their self-worth anchored on nothingness. You can tell that Biafra has mega historical magnum which was stolen by its enemies. Land size does not make a nation. The excitement and ecstasy of winning (freedom and independence) will cover the multitude of faults and inconsistences of this sloppy move and save the trouble for the future. Home POLITICS BIAFRA – The live-wire of African History – 1st republic African leader. In the process of doing this, a lot of factors are taken into consideration. The old Biafran map included non-Igbo speaking areas because of the circumstances that produced the map in the first place. In Igbo society today, there are more chiefs than the Igbo as the greatest struggle has become who will go by the biggest sounding titles. Now I have a reason that stronger than mere Tribalistic/ethnic war between the Igbos and the Hausa Fulanis, from today I fight for my ancestral nation, the country of my Fore-fathers and I believe that by the grace of almighty God (Chukwu Okike Obiama) who I worship through Jesus Christ’s ways and my Fore-fathers also worshiped through their own means which they understood Biafra will come to actualization and be listed among the great nations of the world. Early modern maps of Africa from the 15th–19th centuries, drawn by European cartographers from accounts written by explorers and travellers, reveal some interesting information about Biafra: The original word used by the European travellers was not Biafra but Biafara, Biafar and sometimes also Biafares. However, should the Igbo try to go along with the unnecessary “extra luggage” of incorporating unwilling and incongruent partners on this trip to their new nation, they are bound to regret it. Maps indicating the word Biafara (sometimes also Biafares or Biafar) with corresponding year: 1584 1644 1660 1662 1707 1729 1737 1805 1858 1871 Maps from the 19th century indicating Biafra as the region around today's Cameroon: 1843 1880 1890 Additional maps from the Michigan State University Map … The old Biafra was the only option and the best option available to the people. This generation cannot shy away from the noise of battles or shirk from the sight of blood and expect to win accolades and laudable historical memories from coming generations. Should the Igbo go it alone, it is guaranteed that they will not be the smallest nation on Earth and even if they were, what difference will it make. Biafra has been in existence before the Greece, Before the United Kingdom and even before the Roman Empire. These cries will in turn serve as cogs in the wheel of the new nation. ( Log Out /  For this and for many other reasons we need to have a clear definition of the geographical map of the area we are talking about as the new Biafra. At the announcement, the non-Igbo ethnic peoples of the Eastern Region were elated with their new found power which they believed would shield them for good from Igbo people’s influence. The voting pattern of 2015 Presidential election notwithstanding. So, we must bear that in mind. Integrities and reputations of elders who are usually the judges and deciders are established or destroyed in land matters. Biafra is never an invention of any of the European countries because it has existed before the advent of Europeans to Africa. Its territory consisted of the Eastern Region of Nigeria. It should be noted that Biafra as a Nation (Kingdom), has been in existence for over 5000 Years. . One hundred years ago, the fad then was the amalgamation of incongruent peoples and societies with the assumption that “we the colonialists make the decisions for them and they (the natives) will never know the difference.” However, the practical thing which I think will still be relevant in the next one hundred years is that in Africa, there can be Luxemburgs and Vaticans, and Africa will be better off and more prosperous as it is in Europe than if Austria and Germany had been made into one country. Most of us are familiar with the Biafra map of between May 30, 1967 and January 15, 1970 (the old Biafra.) It was from these three kingdoms that Nigeria was created in 1914. They have no reason to give up and presume that they cannot make it without first trying. If we are therefore careful today to incorporate this cautious wisdom in our planning at this foundational stage, then if in the future any of us can come back to look at the result of our today’s decisions, we will be proud to have chosen the bold and conservative path over the liberal and reckless road. So our people need education for self-realisation. In the meanwhile, the more sensible thing to do is for the Igbo to go it alone now and in one-hundred-year time, the neighbors would have seen how we conduct our businesses and the way we run our society. The real custodians of the people’s traditional heritage and customs shunned those negative strange and disruptive emptiness. Biafra was a country that existed on the Ancient Map of Africa for about 400 years before Nigeria was created in 1914, i.e before the First Map was created. We cannot take it for granted that all Igbo will vote “yes” to separate from Nigeria, in the first instance. Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps. No tales survive of the kings and queens. 0. But in real world, each individual or group must depend on their own inner power and ingenuity to survive and thrive. The reason is because they wanted to survive. Biafra is not the invention of any of the European countries. In the ancient map of Africa of 1660 and 1707, Biafra was in it. ( Log Out /  We must choose to become independent from Nigeria, in the first place, as Igbo people, not along with the other ethnic peoples if they are unwilling. Those were the people that the Europeans found useful to be able to intimidate the natives and extract from them maximum taxes and levies. Slave Mortality, as percent of Slaves Leaving, and Voyage Length from Africa to Caribbean Regions, 1776–1830, SOME OF THE OLDEST KNOWN BIAFRAN KINGDOM MAP, our new nation biafra will come to pass one day,we are in tears in every instantenous giving t seconds, I wish to express my joy & gratitude to God Amighty for creating me a Biafran. Early modern maps of Africa from the 15th–19th centuries, drawn by European cartographers from accounts written by explorers and travellers, reveal some interesting information about Biafra:. Literally, to complete the destruction of the people, it is this kind of warped Igbo society that got subsumed into the greater Nigerian union. View detailed information and reviews for 1660 Juniper Dr in Venice, Florida and get driving directions with road conditions and live traffic updates along the way. It is a product of ignorance. As we round up this discussion it is important to remind us that whatever map that we finally come up with must be practical, realistic and defensible. Share. But we know the reason why. Therefore, based on what we know today and the realities of our collective experiences the map of the new Biafra must include all the autochthonous and contiguous geography of Igbo land. I recommend those two books: “”They Lived Before Adam” and “Ado-na-Idu History of Igbo Origin” because, as the Bible would have it, “My people are perishing for lack of knowledge.” Many countries around the world, in Africa and our Nigerian neighbours have great detailed knowledge about the pre-historic esoteric origin of Biafra; the Biafrans alone do not know much about their past. To achieve an authentic new Biafran map we have to bear in mind some few basic facts. Eluwa. We use cookies to enhance your experience while using our website. We should not be ashamed or afraid to talk about pure Igbo interests as if the Igbo story cannot be prestigious, dignified and relevant unless it is associated and corroborated with those of other people. The present Nigeria is based on a one-hundred-year-old assumption and here we are today paying with death tolls in millions of lives as a result. Many of his brethren derscribed his effort in disparaging terms. Unfortunately, fifty years after, this story has persisted and it’s not going away anytime soon. Igbo alone has a population of about 50 million. ( Log Out /  You can selectively provide your consent below to allow such third party embeds. With the success of this divide and conquer masterstroke, from then onwards, to the outside world and to all who cared to listen, Biafra now according to this British narrative, became an Only-Igbo enterprise. The kingdom of biafra must be restored at all costs. The ancient maps of Africa as of 1660 to 1707, it clearly shows that Biafra was in it. We cannot wrap up Igbo future with those of other people as it is. BIAFRA DIPLOMATIC WAR DOCS – 50th Anniversary, BIAFRA IPOB: SPEECH By MAZI NNAMDI KANU – 19th June 2015 Pt. But the game would quickly change soon after. But i promise, I will rise some day to put Biafra were it belongs. Putting it differently, Africa should be made into a country for the Igbo so they can only conduct business in their own country. The darkness and depths of emptiness have penetrated…, +5-3 ArabNN is reporting that the rumors surrounding the disappearance of Jordan’s King are…, 00 The Coronavirus can no longer be ignored. For the sake of emphasis; has anyone wondered why don’t the Israelis merge their state with Lebanon or any of their other Arab neighbors so they can be big and heterogeneous. It was based on this rejection that the society which we inherited, is an Igbo society which had been turned on its head, standing shamefacedly in the midst of ill-gotten strange and unfamiliar ways. Keep marching on! “Shall a nation be born at once? To do this, we need to produce a physical map that is based on none flimsy dreams but practical realities of who and where constitutes the new Biafra. But I wonder how many of us have contemplated what the map of the new Biafra will look like. However, Biafra, as a Nation (Kingdom), has been in existence for over 5000 years. who have brazenly committed nso ani are allowed to bear rule and decide for the people what they should accept as rights and wrongs. Ever since, the struggle has remained the cutthroat competition to launder those filthy dubious gains where falsehood is called truth while condemning in the same breath, the old and tested traditional principles of aka idi ocha, offor, ogu and ikenga. The generation that will confront these problems will be worse off and will have to continue wasting energy and resources and opportunities they should have used to advance on trying to fine tune mediocrity-inducing quota system models and federal character appeasement compromises. They were told that it was the Igbo who were their (Nigeria’s) problem which they wanted to eliminate. But each generation must fight their own battles and win their own victories. So, in Igbo society the people take geographical maps seriously. The division further helped in the success of the siege and Awolowo’s starvation weapon policy. That hatred has persisted to date. Then each group will bargain from positions of strength to reach satisfactory cooperative union agreements. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Foreigners created Nigeria and here we are trying to free ourselves from it because they did not take into consideration the people’s fundamental differences. But by all means and at all costs, I think that the Igbo cannot afford to take this disease of hollow mockery of our true humanity into the new Biafra. But we know the reason why. It will be a bad dream for us to produce any map of the new Biafra that incorporates other ethnicities that are not Igbo speaking without qualifications. Political background prior to 1707 1603–1660. And if we are talking of Biafra where the Igbo are involved, (the Biafra in question is a supposedly geographical and political independent or self-governing sovereign state) then we must make every effort to define the extent and boundaries of this sovereignty right from the start. In the end it seemed to have made certain the final and eternal demise of Igbo’s real national and cultural identity. Today, thieves (chiefs, igwes, Drs., Profs., Barristers, etc.) The Igbo rather than being driven by imperial aggrandizement of Igbo geography have always been the withdrawing types who would rather maintain and preserve their cherished republican independent democracy than seek to expand their geographical reaches and political control of others. The old Biafra in the face of all odds, became a modern model of self-defense and the best illustration of the principles of Self Determination. We are not even sure that we will succeed, so why drag along other people whose aspirations are not the same with those of the Igbo. In 1884-1885, the Europeans and Americans met in the Berlin Conference, Germany, and spread the map of Africa on a table and shared the lands of Africa among themselves for colonization and exploitation of the resources of Africa. By SIXTUS CHIBUEZE EZENNAYA PRESIDENT Sekou Toure of Guinea once said, “Our textbooks taught us about the battle of the Who knows, we may be about to create a new Nigeria-Biafra. If you are using our Services via a browser you can restrict, block or remove cookies through your web browser settings. Other members of the Gov­erning Council are drawn from all parts of Biafraland, including South East, parts of South-South and parts of the Middle Belt being the land of Biafra, as shown in the Ancient Map of Biafra 1660 and 1707, which we have filed in court.” . We want to answer the name of our ancestors and have the right to occupy our ancestral habitation whose maps and identity were in the ancient Map of Africa about 400 years before Captain Lugard and Rev C.H Robinson created Nigeria in 1914. My reason for bringing up most of these issues now is to help us, right from the beginning, to pay close attention to all the details and not take any aspect of the business of this new Biafra for granted. Biafra has been in existence before the Greece, Before the United Kingdom and even before the Roman Empire. The Sun reports that renowned Igbo leaders were still in court with the Federal Government of Nigeria over rights to self-deter­mination. And we must choose to either carry the practice over or discard those insidious destroyers of greatness, excellence and bigness at the threshold of the new Biafra. Let the future generation of Igbo people which did not witness the Pogrom and the subsequent genocidal war, take that decision, guided by the conditions that are obtainable in their own prevailing circumstances. Bight of Biafra was also in the map when Europeans came to Africa. Eventually it will become a homeland where excellence and impossible dreams are frowned at or even legislated as crimes because it is criminals and dishonest “intellectuals” who will become the legislators and the wielders of political power and authority. If we leave this task to the mediocre and the frustrated and uninformed, uncouth and undiplomatic activists and freedom fighters from among us, the ideals and lofty dreams of the new Biafra will become the playing field for the frustrated and the home of abhorrent mediocrity. As a reminants of Biafra, we are saying that Biafra as a Country is over due, now that Nigeria’s 100 year amalgamation has EXPIRED 1914-2013, therefore… WE WANT OUR COUNTRY BACK! Odenigbo Aka-Ikenga: Issues .Events .Historicals .News .Facts .Arts .Crafts .Culture .Tradition Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic Coastline. How it will happen is that Igbo population which is maybe four times the population of these other “future partners,” and because the Igbo are just as talented as the others, proportionally it will make the Igbo to seem to be dominating in all aspects of the new nation. We may dismiss or ignore this reality to the detriment of the future generations of our people. Thus the northern Sudan and Sahelian Savannah region of the country is made up of Muslim majority, while the southern population was predominantly Christian and Animist. There was an Eastern Region which was created by the colonialists and it included non-Igbo speaking areas. According to Today.ng, The Indigenous People of Biafra have declared that Biafra as a group existed 500 years before the creation of Nigeria by Great Britain. Ironically, when we look at it in a more holistic light, the worst loss to the Igbo may not be the millions of deaths; killed by the genocidal state of Nigeria. THERE is a "Kingdom of Biafra" on some old maps which were made by early white explorers of the west coast of Africa. Ethiopian Troops Fire On UN Staffers In Tigray After Defying Checkpoints, Turkey Threatens Christian Communities In Northern Syria In New Offensive, CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: The End of the Exile is Here, This Chanukah, It Is Time To Finally Break The Chains Of The CCP And Their Global Partners, A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE EFFIE EITAM / YAD VASHEM DISPUTE. They had to Isolate the Igbo in the fight and once that was done it became a divided rank from within. Firstly, we have to accept that by the reason of the new knowledge and experiences available to this generation, the old Biafran map is unrealistic, outdated and clearly overtaken by new realities. If care is not taken, and if we continue so negligently traveling this road it might lead to unnecessary heartaches and pains. Biafra was a country that existed on the Ancient Map of Africa for about 400 years before Nigeria was created in 1914, i.e before the First Map was created. Kudos to the writer of this post, I’m also happy about the replies, sincerely speaking I never knew anything about the history of Biafra, I always thought Biafra was Odumegwu Ojukwu’s thinking. AND WE MUST GET IT BACK! He is one of the leading voices in the Igbo independence movement focusing on establishing an independent homeland for the Igbo people. In the new Biafra which we want to build, we would rather build a roof that will not just protect the Igbo from the hate and assaults from the enemy, in addition, we should endeavor to create a national atmosphere that will enable the people to unleash their creative potentials and constantly reach for the stars. At the same time, we must never discard or treat lightly the great achievements of our fathers and mothers. And the truth is that this generation cannot expect to win and do great things if the best and the brightest of the people continue to shy away from this task of securing freedom and a homeland for the Igbo (an endangered ethnic and religious people) in Nigeria. Great and successful societies will always be the result of the harmonized social and cultural structure of the human composition of the place. Depending on how they handled land issues. At first the others gladly accepted and went along with the dream. We must make effort to assure our neighbors that the Igbo do not covet whatever that belongs to others, neither do they desire to lord it over other people. Then there will be cries of marginalization and oppression from some of those who might want to adopt the so-called minorities statuses. 1 – FULL RADIOBIAFRA BROADCAST, BIAFRA IPOB: SPEECH By MAZI NNAMDI KANU – 18th May 2015 Pt. ( Log Out /  Thank you for the observation, that 400 was only before the first map was created, leading to amalgamation of 1914. With all the prevailing evidences it was easy for the Igbo to convince the others to go along with them in their pursuit for a new state. By. Every Biafran must also read “Ado-na-Idu History of Igbo Origin” written by B.O.N. 1 – FULL RADIOBIAFRA BROADCAST, BIAFRA IPOB: SPEECH By MAZI NNAMDI KANU – 18th April Pt. It was the same with the Israeli Diaspora when in 1897 Theodor Hertzl rose to fight for the creation of a state of Israel in Palestine. Amen………………………..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As we all know, the old Biafra and the Biafrans of old; the people who defined the first Biafra, did not have the luxury of time and knowledge which the new definers are privileged to have. Saharanews - January 19, 2019. The story of the fight became the “holy” mission to liberate or save non-Igbo ethnic peoples of Eastern Region from the Igbo who wanted to lord it over them and steal their God-given resources from them. Agitators for the actualisation of the state of Biafra have revealed their admission as mem­bers of the Economic, So­cial and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) General Assembly of the African Union (AU). Agitators for the actualisation of the state of Biafra have revealed their admission as mem­bers of the Economic, So­cial and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) General Assembly of the African Union (AU). It was under such all-inclusive affectation of the affliction that led the advocates for the then Biafra to campaign for the independence and self-determination of all the affected parties. This is even as they stated that notable Igbo leaders were still in court with the Federal Government of Nigeria over rights to self-deter­mination. For complete information about the cookies we use, data we collect and how we process them, please check our. If this is allowed to happen, we will be back to where we started from; a new Nigeria-Biafra. No map that we present to the world should be based on assumptions. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. I thank God for everything for many years devil’s have been hiding the truth from us today God have reviewed it to me by taking me to this site I never knew all this before now I have know this every thing is cross and die eny body who wants to stop me from work for BIAFRA restoration his or her life will stop to exist from that day. If the best among us should abandon this job to the less gifted as is, then the new Biafra would have been lost as the old Igbo society got lost when the Whiteman came and sold to the Igbo the idiocy of chieftaincy titles, igwe stools and that hollow mockery of human dignity and honor when every Igbo son and daughter began to refer to themselves as princes and princesses. We also use content and scripts from third parties that may use tracking technologies. Such MoUs will clearly show how we intend to relate with these neighbors assuming we are going along to coopt them into the new Nigeria-Biafra country we are planning on establishing. Kee preaching the gospel of the restoration of the kingdom of God on earth! However, Biafra, as a Nation (Kingdom), has been in existence for over 5000 years. Nigeria’s headache, as claimed by the country, is the Igbo, not the other groups. Nigerians have always made this very clear. My recommendation; let’s work out modalities with these other ethnic groups, on how all the former Southeasterners can all work together to win independence from Nigeria while each group is guarding and tending their own separate national destiny and identity. This is even as they stated that notable Igbo leaders were still in court with the Federal Government of Nigeria over rights to self-deter­mination. We Must Not Fear The Darkness – There Is Light Within, Trump The Peace Maker: Morocco Signs Full Normalization Deal With Israel. Then there was only one governor for the entire region which happened to be Emeka Ojukwu. As for the "Republic of Biafra" we know a great deal. Ikpa oke ani, that is mapping out the boundaries and ownership of lands, is an important function in Igbo society. Historically, all those who received the European’s manufactured Warrant Chief and Igwe staff of office in Igbo land were the thieves, social pariahs, abani di egwu and all those at the fringes of the society who cared less about the people’s culture and values. In Nigeria excellence and best practice are not just discouraged, they are punished and sacrificed at the altar of federal character and quota system. But the truth is that we cannot dwell in the past and reminisce for eternity the exploits and accomplishments of generations past. Historical Maps. Other members of the Governing Council are drawn from all parts of Biafraland, including South East, parts of South-South and parts of the Middle Belt being the land of Biafra, as shown in the Ancient Map of Biafra 1660 and 1707, which we have filed in court.” To: All Indigenous People of Biafra at home and abroad This is known in history as the Scramble for Africa. 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