Fanned by the embers of sectionalism, tribalism, corruption, misrule and mistrust, the Biafran War changed Nigeria irreversibly. It was the first civil war in post-independence Africa, one of the world’s first televised conflicts and with the estimated number of fatalities ranging from 500,000 to two million people – mainly from the famine that followed Nigeria’s land and sea blockade of the former Eastern Region – it was also one of the deadliest.
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