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024 7    |a MS 380252 |2 SOAS manuscript number
040        |a UkLSOA |c UkLSOA
245 00 |a Address by His Excellency Lt.-Col. C. Odumegwu Ojukwu Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Republic of Biafra to the Organisation of African Unity Consultative Committee Meeting at Addis Ababa on Monday Fifth August 1968 |h [electronic resource] |y English.
246 3    |a Address by His Excellency, Lieutenant-Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Republic of Biafra to the O.A.U. Consultative Committee Meeting at Addis Ababa on Monday, August 5, 1968 |y English.
260        |a [S.l.] : |b Ministry of Information, Republic of Biafra, |c [1968].
500        |a The Republic of Biafra was a short-lived secessionist state, established in 1967 by the Ibo (Igbo) people of south-eastern Nigeria. Biafra proclaimed its independence on 30 May 1967 after the Islamic Hausa and Fulani peoples, who dominated the Nigerian federal government, massacred between 10,000 and 30,000 of the Christian Ibo. Lt. Col. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu led the new state. The country took its name from the Bight of Biafra (an arm of the Atlantic Ocean). It comprised roughly the East-Central, South-Eastern and river states of the federation of Nigeria, where the Ibo predominated. Biafra's original capital was Enugu, but Aba, Umuahia and Owerri served successively as provincial capitals after the Nigerian forces captured Enugu. Civil war followed the proclamation of independence, beginning in June 1967. Nigeria imposed economic sanctions on Biafra from the start of the secession, and by 1968 Biafra had lost its seaports and become landlocked. Starvation and disease followed. The Biafrans surrendered on 15 January 1970. Estimates of mortality range from 500,000 to several million.
500        |a VIAF (name authority) : Ojukwu, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu, 1933-2011 : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/30429581
500        |a VIAF (name authority) : Biafra : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/264195570
533        |a Electronic reproduction. |b London : |c SOAS University of London, |c Special Collections, |d 2021. |f (SOAS Digital Collections) |n Mode of access: World Wide Web. |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software.
535 1    |a Special Collections.
650        |a Biafran Conflict (1967-1970).
650    0 |a Nigerian -- History -- Civil War, 1967-1970.
650    0 |a Nigeria, Eastern.
650    0 |a Nigeria -- Politics and government -- 1960-1975.
650    0 |a Nigerian Civil War (Nigeria : 1967-1970).
650        |a Ọgbaghara Biafra (1967-1970).
650        |a Ogbaghara Biafra (1967-1970).
650        |a Agha Obodo Naijiria (Naijiria : 1967-1970).
650        |a Naijiria -- Akụkọ ihe mere eme -- Agha obodo, 1967-1970.
650        |a Naijiria -- Ọchịchị -- 1960-1975.
650        |a Africa -- Nigeria -- Abia -- Umuahia.
650        |a Afrika -- Biafra -- Umuahia -- Umuahia.
650        |a Afrika -- Naijiria -- Abia -- Umuahia.
655    4 |a Government publication.
720 1    |a Ojukwu, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu, 1933-2011, |e author, primary.
752        |a Biafra |b Umuahia |d Umuahia.
776 1    |c Original |w (OCoLC)38800045
830    0 |a SOAS Digital Collections.
830    0 |a Nigeria Collection.
830    0 |a Biafra Documents.
852        |a GBR |b SDC |c Nigeria Collection
856 40 |u http://digital.soas.ac.uk/EK00000242/00001 |y Click here for full text
992 04 |a http://digital.soas.ac.uk/content/EK/00/00/02/42/00001/00001thm.jpg
997        |a Nigeria Collection


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