My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. - Hosea 4:6
Biafra "Freedom" is a song written and sang by Ghettoman, the lead singer of Ghettoman And The Believers.
British Assisted Genocide in Biafra by the Hausa Fulani Led Nigerian Government 1967-1970
Sarduana of Sokoto. His take on Igbo People and why there is no such thing as "One Nigeria"
BIAFRA MISSION TO ISRAEL
The Republic of Biafra under the leadership of the Biafra Zionist Movement will be sending 500 military trainees to Israel for training as Pilots and engineers. This action is in response to the Northern Nigeria governments led by the Kano State government which is sending 100 military trainees as pilots to Jordan to be trained as pilots by the Royal Jordanian Air Force. They are gearing up to war as 2015 is approaching and we the Biafrans are their number one target.
The only revolutionary "nationalist" movement that I am a supporter of presently, or ever for that matter, is the still ongoing Biafra nationalist/separatist movement. One of the main reasons for my support, is that they are largely, and for the most part non-violent in nature. Igbos are not hijacking aircraft, nor committing civilian atrocities to draw international attention to their truly righteous cause. Igbos, still are unfortunately silently dying as they have in the past, only at a slightly slower pace than they have previously. Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian Noble Laureate, has said Biafra is an idea that can never die. I, myself, believe that they should have the right to self determination, deciding their own path to nationhood. Yet you may never have heard of their plight. They got no highly funded PR department. Christianity it seems is a castrated religion in America and Europe in my eyes. Unwilling to defend their own or even speak out in their behalf.
I see many resent articles supporting "Palestinian" nationalism. I see the french government agitating for Israeli concessions. (perhaps an act of appeasement toward their presently hostile Muslim minority)
I believe that there are far too many failed theocratic fascist Arab states in the world today as it is. If there is to be a new nation finding it's seat at the UN, what we need is a new western leaning successful African state perhaps. This new state has great opposition, it always has. I have picked a series of videos for those unfamiliar with the conflict to advance my belief that "It's only with knowledge of the truth, that we can make informed decisions. Ignorance is always, in every case, a poor companion to reason".
I can find historic Biafra existing in per-colonial area maps as a real nation in 1644
http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/africa/maps-continent/1644%20blaeu.jpg
I've donated my time and money to it's cause. I write here on newsvine in their support . The Igbo, are a real people, deserving of a nation well before any "Palestinian" nation is formed. (in my opinion)
The Igbo youth, 16-40, makes up part of Africa’s most educated and talented grouping . Despite the occupation, Igbo male and female students out-perform the rest of Nigeria across the entire spectrum of the education system . (On this, see particularly Okechukwu Agbor’s excellent study, “Look who is going to school in Nigeria,” [accessed 13 February 2009]; a change of the title of Agbor’s essay to, for instance, “ Igbo education during the era of occupation ”, underscores, even further, the historic relevance of his study
(sourced by Nigeria world )
Persecuted Igbo should be able to find an open door policy here in America as a "safe space" , as they are so much like us culturally , differing only in the color of their skin. Yet such 'safe space" designation is reserved in post modern America, for the elite "special snowflakes" of academia. Who are forced by the overriding patriarchal structure of western culture to deal with their oppressive professors, and the true unspeakable horrors of higher education. BDS movement? (LOL)
BEFORE the civil war, Biafra differed from most developing nations because it had a good supply of food and water, and sound public health policies with many physicians, nurses, hospitals, and clinics. Following the slaughter of 40,000 Ibos in 1966, about two million Ibos and other minority groups left their positions throughout Nigeria and fled to Biafra. Additional refugees continue to pour into Biafra to avoid capture by the Nigerian troops who have gained a reputation for slaughtering whole villages.
From the Ahiara declaration.
The Biafran struggle is, on another plane, a resistance to the Arab-Muslim expansionism which has menaced and ravaged the African continent for twelve centuries. As early as the first quarter of the seventh century, the Arabs, a people from the Near-East, evolved Islam not just as a religion but as a cover for their insatiable territorial ambitions. By the tenth century they had overrun and occupied, among other places, Egypt and North Africa. Had they stopped there, we would not today be faced with the wicked and unholy collusion we are fighting against. On the contrary, they cast their hungry and envious eyes across the Sahara on to the land of the Negroes. Our Biafran ancestors remained immune from the Islamic contagion. From the middle years of the last century Christianity was established in our land. In this way we came to be a predominantly Christian people. We came to stand out as a non-Muslim island in a raging Islamic sea. Throughout the period of the ill-fated Nigerian experiment, the Muslims hoped to infiltrate Biafra by peaceful means and quiet propaganda, but failed. Then the late Ahmadu Bello, the Sarduana of Sokoto
Sarduana is a religious/political title associated with the historic theocratic entity called the Sokoto caliphate.
tried, by political and economic blackmail and terrorism, to convert Biafrans settled in Northern Nigeria to Islam. His hope was that these Biafrans on dispersion would then carry Islam to Biafra, and by so doing give the religion political control of the area.
http://www.biafraland.com/Ahiara_declaration_1969.htm
Direct from Usmanu Dan Fodo university, Sokoto Nigeria, home of the former Sokoto Caliphate, an interesting examination of the relationship between Qadiriya Sufism and jihad.
http://www.nmnonline.net/caliphate200/J.Kaura_RelevanceOfQadiriyaSufismInSokotoJihad_ENGLISH_.pdf
kpr37 with a pagan's perspective.
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Petey Coober
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kpr37
8 years agoThe key to posting videos is to use the full video label and not the youtu.be version .
If you want I'll post them in a comment but it won't have the same impact as being posted in the correct location in the seed .
Bob Nelson
8 years agoWhile I honor your efforts, and agree that the Igbo have suffered far more than enough... you might want to re-read before re-posting...
I write here on newsvine in their support.
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kpr37
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Bob Nelson
8 years agoThank you for taking the time to read the article. I just copy/pasted most of the article over from newsvine. this version is a little longer, but has one less video
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kpr37
8 years agoThe words transcribed at the end of the first video "Biafra freedom" are why they, as opposed to Palestinians get my support.
I believe that if you reward bad behavior, you will see more bad behavior.
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kpr37
8 years agoI updated the newsvine article with this.
It seems logical that the Sultan himself, might be among those who most want real power restored to the Sultanate.
THE most respected Sultan of Sokoto; His Eminence, Alhaji Sa'ad Abubakar 111, is also the President of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs. He fits into that office appropriately and deservingly too. The office of the Sultan of Sokoto, being the Head and ruler of the Caliphate, bestows on the occupant the privilege of "first among equals" within the world comity of Islamic brotherhood. When he speaks, the gods have spoken. And he is actually a "god" both to the Muslim community and Islamic matters, even beyond Nigeria. The Sultan is even larger than life if you add the reality of his military back-ground to the fact that before he ascended his ancestors' throne, he was the Defence Attaché to Pakistan
I've always wondered if he read, or studied the book by brigadier General S. K. Malik The Quranic concept of war while he visited Pakistan.
As Boko Haram uses the same tactics as the taliban. They have been called the African taliban as a matter of fact.
Evidence of this connection to the strategy proposed by general Malik, may manifest itself in Nigeria by showing up in a deep infiltration of the military with sympathizers to the jihadist cause of a reconstituted caliphate helping the insurgents of Boko Haram to achieve their shared goal.
No fewer than 15 senior military officers including 10 generals have been tried before a court-martial and found guilty of giving information and ammunition to Boko Haram terrorists.
In the recent past, the Army and the Defence headquarters have raised the alarm that some of their officers and men are leaking official information to the terrorists and that some of them have been arrested and arraigned before some court-martials in some army divisions in the north.
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kpr37
8 years agoI feared a renewal of the needless slaughter. I was correct, but I bet you have never heard of it, have you?
These Igbo were killed by judicial means, after the publication of this article.
I thought "black lives matter" or is only only if those lives can serve a progressive narrative?
I guess that's why I have seen none of this on mainstream media. These lives don't fit the narrative.
ABA—The protest embarked on by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, over the prolonged detention of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, yesterday, turned bloody in Aba, Abia State, as a combined team of security agents, comprising soldiers and policemen allegedly fired shots at the protesters, killing six members of the group and arresting 20. Also in Enugu, the Police in the state yesterday, arrested 25 members of the IPOB, who had gathered at the Naira Triangle in preparation for a protest march.
Vanguard gathered that the protesters had, as early as 9am, converged at National High School, along Port Harcourt-Aba road, from where they usually march to other areas of the city when security agents swooped on them. Sources said the IPOB members were in prayer session when the soldiers and their police counterparts invaded the area and arrested some leaders of the group. In the confusion, several protesters were injured while 10 were feared dead.
These killing were by extrajudicial means.
Lagos (AFP) - Suicide bombings that killed 58 at a camp for those who fled Boko Haram have raised doubts about the true extent of Nigeria's grip on security in the troubled northeast and its policy of returning the displaced.
Suicide bombings that killed 58 at a camp for those who fled Boko Haram have raised doubts about the true extent of Nigeria's grip on security in the troubled northeast and its policy of returning the displaced.
President Muhammadu Buhari and his government have said many of the estimated two million internally displaced people (IDPs) can begin to return, as the military now has the upper hand.
But Tuesday's attack on Dikwa, some 90 kilometers (55 miles) from the Borno state capital Maiduguri, has called into question whether it is safe to go back -- or even stay put.
Last month, suicide bombers tried but failed to get into one of the largest camps near Maiduguri after an attack nearby that killed 85.
The Igbo are silently dying once again, it's going largely unreported. Meanwhile the over reported Palestinians are suggesting a return to hijacking aircraft once again.
And there was the longtime Palestinian diplomat who wondered on live television whether his people would have to "hijack your planes" again to get the West interested in the Palestinian cause. It was a lament, not a threat. "You always wait for things to reach boiling point and explode, causing you harm, before you intervene to end the crimes and violations," said Nabil Shaath, addressing the Western world.
It's really time to stop rewarding that bad behavior, and time to severely punish it.
Biafra, the only righteous two state solution.
Larry Hampton
8 years agoAnd there was the longtime Palestinian diplomat who wondered on live television whether his people would have to "hijack your planes" again to get the West interested in the Palestinian cause.
Strange how the jacking of planes gets the West interested in bombing the shit outta hamas, Boko haram and other extremist groups. Assholes. Well there are a few pussified examples of some in the West going the other direction as well...
I see the french government agitating for Israeli concessions. (perhaps an act of appeasement toward their presently hostile Muslim minority)
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kpr37
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Larry Hampton
8 years agoIt also gets appeasement, look what it has done for the Palestinian cause.
I have an Igbo friend who tells me there is going to be a new push for independence, as being continually killed and marginalized has not worked out well for the indigenous peoples of Biafra.
Larry Hampton
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kpr37
8 years agoTrue enough and is sickening.
In the case of the indigenous Biafran's, they are battling oppression on more than just the islamist front. There own government outta fear of islamists, are grounding the Igbo out, by not only NOT giving them the protection they need to survive, but also participating in the oppression. These are the sorta governments that end up being overwhelmed by islamists, and themselves turned into an islamist state.
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Uthman was the first commander of the faithful, or Caliph in Nigeria.
http://usafricaonline.com/2016/01/11/usafrica-biafra-agitation-history-and-nigeria-president-buharis-disdain-for-the-igbo-by-arthur-nwankwo/
President Muhammadu Buhari, has been accused (sort of admitted) of personally participating in the killing of several hundred Igbos in the Biafran war. They were not all soldiers however, it's said some were students, intellectuals and politicians in his murderous mix as well.
Forgetting, perhaps momentarily, that it was the large scale killings of Igbos that directly lead to the call for independence in Biafra in the first place.
http://scannewsnigeria.com/featured-post/igbos-hate-me-because-of-the-civil-war-says-buhari/