Après la guerre

"Monday, January 12th 1970, Footage of scenes in Lagos as Philip Efiong, successor to Odumegwu Ojukwu, announces the surrender of the Biafran armed forces.

The capitulation of the Biafra, which as the former Eastern Region of Nigeria, seceded from the federation on May 30th 1967, came after numerous setbacks on the battlefield; the last of which was the overrunning of the provisional capital of Owerri.

Residents in the then Nigerian capital city of Lagos poured into the streets and huddled around transistor radios to hear Efiong's dramatic broadcast."



"August 1970. ITN News footage of the aftermath of the Nigerian Civil War looking at the challenges faced by the Igbo people who formed the predominant group in the defeated secessionist state of Biafra.
 [Includes] interviews with Cyprian Ekwensi, the renowned novelist, who had become a plastic bottle salesman and S.G. Ikoku, the son of Alvan Ikoku who served as a Commissioner for Economic Development and of Health in the East-Central State of Nigeria. Source of footage: Getty Images via ITN News."


MUSIC: "Cock Crow At Dawn" by Bongos Ikwue, remade for the movie Inalé.


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Opelope Foreign Press (only thanks to the foreign press, ...)

Stories from our backyard, but sometimes it takes a foreigner to report them:

The Indian village where child sexual exploitation is the norm - Girls in Sagar Gram, which lies next to a highway, are groomed for this life virtually from birth. 

reported by - Michael Safi

What would make a woman go back to Boko Haram? 

reporter-Azadeh Moaveni

Zahra and Amina say that when they were with the militants, life was harsh and uncertain, but they had enough to eat. As voluntary wives of fighters, they were protected from sexual predation. They attended religion classes, the first formal schooling many had ever received, and their children went to school, learning literacy and religion. There were courts where women could report abusive husbands. In contrast, in their now emancipated lives in the camp, they often go hungry. There is little chance to work to buy more food, and shortages have contributed to sexual exploitation by the security forces who guard them. “Most Boko Haram women regret coming here, because life is just so hard,” says Amina.

Full story HERE


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Peace-less in Africa

Wikipedia: About 50,000 dead in 2014 in South Sudan alone.

The other hottest spots in 2014 are in the Middle East - Syria and Iraq.
The slow-burning Afghanistan and Pakistan conflicts continue, 
while Nigeria's 'Boko Haram' now matches the Israel-Paletsine conflict in fatality.  
New or intensified conflict in Ukraine, Libya, and the Central African Republic, but violence tapering off in Mexico and Somalia, thank God.      
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