Decolonization of Africa · BATTLE SITE ·
Nigerian Civil War (1967–70)
On the Decolonization of Africa map as “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.
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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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