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The Biafran front
1967–70 — Federal Nigeria besieges the secessionist Igbo republic of Biafra. Onitsha, on the Niger, changes hands in some of the war’s hardest fighting as the pocket is slowly crushed.
This is one scene of Chapter 7 — Building States from Colonies in The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994.
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