Origin of Biafra

The Bight of Biafra, or Mafra (named after the town Mafra in southern Portugal), between Capes Formosa and Lopez, is the most eastern part of the Gulf of Guinea; it contains the islands Fernando Po [Equitorial Guinea], Prince’s and St Thomas’s. The name Biafra - as indicating the country - fell into disuse in the later part of the 19th century.

A 1710 map indicates that the region known as "Biafar" (Biafra) was located in present day Cameroon.

The Biafra in the age-old map was demarcated by Slave merchants as travel via the Bight of Biafra is estimated to account for 13% (1.6 million) of the total number of enslaved people exported from the Western African coast.

In 1777, Portugal transferred control of Fernando Poo and Annobon to Spanish suzerainty thus introducing Spain into the early colonial history of the Bight of Biafra

MinorityOpinion:
The Biafra they are using is also a derogatory word, Biafra means slaves place.

The word 'Nigeria' was the merging of two words, Niger and area, it was coined by the then girlfriend of Lugard, Flora Shaw, in 1897 in London when she wrote an article in the Times Newspaper about the indigenous people Britain had conquered and colonised along the River Niger. She referred to them as Nigerians

They killed 5 million people to uphold an insulting colonial name a small white girl in London came up with.

MinorityOpinion:


Biafrans how did Kanu become your leader? It is very sad for a leader of one of the most intelligent tribe in Nigeria to utter this nonsense, he even noted it in write up! River Niger + Area..... Niger + Area = Nigeria!

Biafra4life:


You are the most stupid creature ever
keep pasting rubbish, I believe you know what the prize of betrayal is, if you don't know, ask Awolowo your coward leader

BLOODY AFONJA

MinorityOpinion:


Kanu is a liar, it's not upto 5m! You see why the world won't take you serious?

Biafra4life:


Daft human being, bring up your fact to dispute his claims or remain miserable throughout your life

BLOODY AFONJA

I think their backgrounds don't accommodate dissenting opinions.
If they give IPOB their Biafra today, it will be an authoritarian State like North Korea where people that express contrary opinions and/or dissenting views will be labeled 'traitors' and executed.
During the Civil War, those who were perceived to have contrary opinions from that of Ojukwu like Ifeajuana and Banjo were framed-up as traitors and murdered by firing squad.
Minorities and even some Igbos who were deemed unsympathetic to the Biafran course were called 'Sabos' and were sometimes murdered. Some were buried alive.

MinorityOpinion:
Have you paid your 1000? I think it's due

Biafra4life:


then How many millions of people have died since the creation of this your Godforsaken damnation

BLOODY AFONJA

MinorityOpinion:


I have cancelled my reply, you should be thanking the mods for holding me back.

Biafra4life:


Non of your business, it's my hard earn money

Hope you have collected your Sub money for your Zombi work

BLOODY AFONJA

GENERATION OF FALLING DEMONS

Biafra4life:


You aren't gonna do shit, you can only hyperventilate because that's what you are paid to do, masturbate on Ipob issues that's all

are you not ashamed of yourself

BLOODY AFONJA

MinorityOpinion:


I think igbos are intelligent, are you sure you are igbo?

In by book, Kanu is not smart, he is a talker, a scammer and a coward

MinorityOpinion:


You should be ashamed of being called Biafra, a name forged in hell from Portugal. It's name for where to capture slaves.

Biafra4life:


Scammer and Coward, yes we love him

now tell me crying more than the berived, it's it not hight of stupidity and foolishness

Kanu is a Coward, ok!!

Who is ruling Kwara now, a Yoruba state, it's not Fulani

AFONJA YOU GUYS ARE MISERABLE

Biafra4life:


What about your Nigga Area,
that was given to you by a prostitute

no wonder everything about Nigeria is Darkness

Biafra4life:
Coward that don't have means of leaving other than to masturbate on Ipob issues

Tommorow now he will carry big board and protest that Igbo's have bought the whole of Lagos, begging there god and saviour TINUBU to come and rescue them

Biafra4life:


What about your Nigga Area,
that was given to you by a prostitute

no wonder everything about Nigeria is Darkness

FlatSkull:
[s][/s] Ndi Ipob, Hope u hv paid ur dues

MinorityOpinion:


I don't care, Igbos are welcome to lagos, let them behave and pay taxes, that's all. We are brothers

MinorityOpinion:


That Nigeria pay your salary and your kinsmen salary. That Nigeria pay your old men pension when your governors couldn't do anything, that Nigeria is what you will claim when entering another country, I've told you Kanu (I know you're Kanu Nnamdi) enough is enough stop scamming innocent igbos!

I'm done here, bye Kanu!

MinorityOpinion:


Can you tell me how the Igala were able enslave igbos by conquering them to become their priest, how igala are the owner of Anambra and they are still tormenting you till today. What do igbos know about empire? Little village chiefs