₦airaland Forum

While it is common to hear an argument postulated by adherents of a recent pro-Biafra agitation resurgence among young listeners of a pirate radio station operating out of the United Kingdom, Radio Biafra, that “Biafra” was the initial name of the territory to which the South of Nigeria belonged, our checks have failed to substantiate this claim. The idea has been pushed by the Radio station run by a rather radical individual, Nwannekaenyi Kenny Okwu-Kanu, who goes by the alias, Nnamdi Kanu. The maps can be seen on the Princeton University website and enlarged to examine. We have brought out the relative parts below.Apparently the name “Biafra” or “Biafara” was picked again because the former Premiere of Nigeria’s then Eastern region, Odumegwu Ojukwu had chosen the “Biafra” name for the territory he wished to preside over; however there is no evidence that Ojukwu selected that name because he believed it was the name of his ancestral home. Rather it was the name of much of Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and São Tomé and Príncipe and perhaps a nice name that tickled Ojukwu’s fancy. Or perhaps Ojukwu was suggesting an ancestral origin outside Nigeria in the Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon region. In the image above, River Camarones can be noticed at the left border of “Biafra.” This river, now called Wouri river is in the middle of today’s Cameroon. The Region Is Benin And Not Biafra Calabar, Nigeria’s Eastern border is seen well within territory called Benin; Benin, a large demarcated kingdom that extends deep into today’s Cameroon, before the region known as Biafra starts. Based on these findings, “Benin” would serve as a more accurate historical fact based sobriquet for the southern parts of Nigeria in discussion. Another map from 1644 also puts “Biafara” solidly in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and São Tomé and Príncipe and far from Nigeria’s furthest Eastern border. Apparently the prior name of the territory now called Biafra by this group was recognized and mapped as “Benin,” and never Biafra in all historic maps.

moyosore27384:
While it is common to hear an argument postulated by
adherents of a recent pro-Biafra agitation resurgence
among young listeners of a pirate radio station operating
out of the United Kingdom, Radio Biafra, that “Biafra” was
the initial name of the territory to which the South of Nigeria
belonged, our checks have
failed to
substantiate this
claim.
The idea has been
pushed by the Radio
station run by a
rather radical individual, Nwannekaenyi Kenny Okwu-Kanu,
who goes by the alias, Nnamdi Kanu.
The maps can be seen on the Princeton University website
and enlarged to examine.
We have brought out the relative parts below.Apparently
the name “Biafra” or “Biafara” was picked again because
the former Premiere of Nigeria’s then Eastern region,
Odumegwu Ojukwu had chosen the “Biafra” name for the
territory he wished to preside over; however there is no
evidence that Ojukwu selected that name because he
believed it was the name of his ancestral home.
Rather it was the name of much of Cameroon, Equatorial
Guinea and São Tomé and Príncipe and perhaps a nice
name that tickled Ojukwu’s fancy. Or perhaps Ojukwu was
suggesting an ancestral origin outside Nigeria in the
Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon region.
In the image above, River Camarones can be noticed at the
left border of “Biafra.” This river, now called Wouri river is in
the middle of today’s Cameroon.
The Region Is Benin And Not Biafra
Calabar, Nigeria’s Eastern border is seen well within
territory called Benin; Benin, a large demarcated kingdom
that extends deep into today’s Cameroon, before the region
known as Biafra starts.
Based on these findings, “Benin” would serve as a more
accurate historical fact based sobriquet for the southern
parts of Nigeria in discussion.
Another map from 1644 also puts “Biafara” solidly in
Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and São Tomé and Príncipe
and far from Nigeria’s furthest Eastern border. Apparently
the prior name of the territory now called Biafra by this
group was recognized and mapped as “Benin,” and never
Biafra in all historic maps.

advice plz isn't better for you to find something more good to do than just mirrage to change histroy, am sory bro for trying to change histroy that predate you without any concret fact is like trying to know who God is? Where he come from? And who does he operate? I bet you will run mad without control or cure

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Modernized military era