1. Biafra is Africa’s first true post neocolonial state. Take a look at the map of Africa, it has changed very little since the height of colonialism in 1950. The borders of Africa today are same as the colonial borders. South Africa is the former Union of South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the former Belgian Congo and Zimbabwe is Southern Rhodesia.
The names have changed but
the borders have not. And then there is the Federal Republic of Nigeria which
with a few small additions and losses of former UN Trust territory on the
border, is British Nigeria. Biafra on the other hand corresponds to no known former
colony, it is an indigenous movement and represents solely African
interests.
A free and independent Biafra calls into question
all the other colonial boundaries which imprison within dozens of African
peoples also wanting sovereignty: Cabinda, Southern Cameroons, Azawad,
Matabeleland, Barotseland, Katanga, etc. For the sake of all Africans, an
indigenous African republic is needed and not another faux African Spring
controlled from Brussels, London and Washington. Only a Referendum can bring independence
because it is transparent unlike negotiations.
2. The great powers profit from weak and failing states. Bad borders make for weak and failing states. And weak and failing states are far easier to exploit than strong ones. Libya under Khadafy, like him or hate him, was a power to be reckoned with but not now. Three rival Libyan governments and an ISIS insurrection make the pickings easy when there is no central government.
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