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  • How the Igbo Pogroms Led to the Biafra War

    How the Igbo Pogroms Led to the Biafra War

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    Blacc Theddi

    The Igbo pogroms of the 1960s, marked by a series of massacres against Igbo and other southern Nigerian communities, were a pivotal moment in Nigerian history, ultimately leading to the declaration of the Republic of Biafra and the Nigerian Civil War. The violence, which began in May 1966 and escalated…