Decolonization of Africa · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Biafran airlift (1968–70)
On the Decolonization of Africa map as “Biafra — the Uli airlift”
1968–70 — As blockade brings famine to secessionist Biafra, a night airstrip at Uli receives the world’s largest civilian relief flights. Perhaps a million people, mostly children, die of starvation. Hunger used as a weapon. Remember them.
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- Africa after independence (chapter 7 of Decolonization of Africa)
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- The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994
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