biafra
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Imu ahia/ (Ímù Ólú/Oru) – The Igbo Apprenticeship System
Imu Ahia /Ímù Ólú/Oru How the Igbo Apprenticeship helped heal the wounds of Biafra. In 1967 Nigeria declared war on the secessionist state of Biafra (formally Eastern Nigeria predominantly of the Igbo ethnic group, alongside many of their neighbours like the Ibibio, Efik and Ekoi). What followed was one of Africa’s most brutal and genocidal…
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5 Interesting Facts About The Biafra -Nigeria War
5 THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT THE BIAFRA-NIGERIA WAR 60s Rock-Legend Jimi Hendrix at the height of his career in 1968 performed at a Biafra war benefit show in Manhattan along with 60s folk singer Joan Baez. Both artists performed free of charge in order to raise money for refugees of the Biafra-Nigeria Civil…
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Young Igbo Forum: “Was Nigeria Designed to Fail?” pt.4
Dec 2017 – Okwu ID hosted the 1st Young Igbo Forum (London UK) the question elaborated in this video: Was Nigeria designed by the British to fail? Is it a model that needs to be scrapped?
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Young Igbo Forum: ” Is Britain still to blame for Nigeria’s failures?” pt.3
Dec 2017 – Okwu ID hosted the 1st Young Igbo Forum (London UK) the question elaborated in this video: Does Nigeria’s dysfunction exist by colonial design or is our dysfunction reflective of something deeper within the African psyche?