Word: biafra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first of the Boston volunteers for relief work in Nigeria and Biafra--159 of them--have begun the screening process, Phillip Whitten, chairman of the Cambridge-based Committee for Nigerian-Biafran Relief said yesterday...
Whitten, a student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said that so far 291 Boston-area residents have volunteered to fly to Biafra to help distribute food and medical care to the thousands of children suffering from protein starvation there. He estimated that 125 of the volunteers are students at Harvard--undergraduates, graduate students, and Cliffies...
Last week Whitten was in New York speaking with members of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF). He hoped UNICEF would take over full sponsorship of the volunteers for Nigeria-Biafra program...
...their exploitation in pre-coup Nigeria, the foreign minister, an Ibo, was busy singing the glories of Nigeria at the U.N. The Head of State who supervised the political corruption of pre-coup Nigeria is now a Biafran ambassador at large. It is significant that it is only in Biafra that these corrupt politicians have not been permanently thrown out of office...
Only pseudo liberals and enemies of Africa can seriously advocate organized trips into Biafra with the avowed purpose of forcing American intervention in favour of secession. For quite apart from the risk of creating another Vietnam, such action can only condemn Africa to permanent underdevelopment. An Africa based on tribal units has no chance. Only our enemies can knowingly encourage African fragmentation while they themselves enjoy the fruits of unity in their own countries. Omafume Onoge Teaching Fellow Social Relations Dept...