BastardWike:
In Biafra, Africa Died~~Fredrick Forsyth.
Each time I watch any documentary on Biafra or read books about its technological advancement as far back as late 1960's when Africa was still known as the Dark continent, I feel like shedding tears on the missed opportunities.

So sad.

legallyminded:


You're very foolish, was military support not specifically stated when talking about Nigeria and her allies during the civil war

Your brain is dysfunctional

Etinosa1234:

We ain't interested in our former subjects... Just making the records known...

Igbos were under Benin...

unshakablejihad:

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in ur fantacy world nd yet the beer palour tales aren't heard of in igbo land..

ur bini kingdom that was massacred with a weak force of 1200 british foot sodiers

nd yet u tiny monkeys from ur midget empire won't keep shut...never had it been heard such force defeated great kingdoms with one shut of a gun barrel ur puny kingdom was subdued within 10days all ur chiefs dukes villages in nd outside were subdued nd ur oba was sent to oblivion.[/s]

unshakablejihad:


hahaha hillarious the only empire in history to be defeated by female warriors bck to bck none stop..

Etinosa1234:


So whats ur point...

loveth360:
Where did you people come from.

unshakablejihad:


in ur fantacy world nd yet the beer palour tales aren't heard of in igbo land..

ur bini kingdom that was massacred with a weak force of 1200 british foot sodiers

nd yet u tiny monkeys from ur midget empire won't keep shut...never had it been heard such force defeated great kingdoms with one shut of a gun barrel ur puny kingdom was subdued within 10days all ur chiefs dukes villages in nd outside were subdued nd ur oba was sent to oblivion.

TheLionofLasigi:


Still it was regained back. Still it was an empire.....what empire can you flatin0s boost of

unshakablejihad:


ur bini farmland was a puny kingdom that my point..

davidmarker:

1200 is only the number of white soldiers, not counting the black soldiers who fought as cannon fodders for britain.
The british had maxim guns with which they had walked through everybody in the region.
Also the british only managed to capture Benin city, the capital, but some Benin generals continued the guerrilla warfare for a year or so.

unshakablejihad:


lolzzz cut dat bullshit... it was well recorded 1200 foot sodiers took part in the bini expendition..

dnt change the narrative...wen ur kingdom was subdued, none of ur generals continued the battle with the british forces..

the battle ended right there!

Bkayyy:

Biafra didn't lose by combat.
Read the history

dukeprince50:
This guy, why u just like to attack me

TheLionofLasigi:


Still it was regained back. Still it was an empire.....what empire can you flatin0s boost of

davidmarker:


Just to show you that you are a bafoon who knows nothing he is talking about: this Benin general did continue the war against britain

Twutin:


Audio empire.

The igbos fought with the British for 30 years. Although there where Igbo towns that had white occupants, they where massacred and cleared.

The Igbo-British war only ended because the eze nri was called to court, and they threatened to kill all igbos.

The aro confederacy was wayyy more powerful than the bini kingdom

How where the British troops able to capture and burn the Benin palace in under 10 days. Weren’t the binis the greatest empire in the world?

Cc davidmaker

loveth360:
Girl na you start an.

Twutin:


Audio empire.

The igbos fought with the British for 30 years. Although there where Igbo towns that had white occupants, they where massacred and cleared.

The Igbo-British war only ended because the eze nri was called to court, and they threatened to kill all igbos.

The aro confederacy was wayyy more powerful than the bini kingdom

How where the British troops able to capture and burn the Benin palace in under 10 days. Weren’t the binis the greatest empire in the world?

Cc davidmaker

TheLionofLasigi:


Still it was regained back. Still it was an empire.....what empire can you flatin0s boost of

AniOmaa:

Typically I don't think it's healthy to my time and a quotient of intelligence engaging low IQ and unfortunately uninformed mo.rons like yourself, but maybe it will suffice you to know that you don't need an *empire* to be a well organized and structured civilization (the purveyors of what we know as democracy today were the Greeks... and they didn't have an "empire". While at it, your overrated Oyo empire couldn't even hold a candle to far better empires like your Benin neighbors, Songhai empire, Mali empire, Karnem-Bornu empire and other historical African greats... yet we don't see those formidable civilizations make noise like you ewedu guzzling apes with bad cholesterol for reasoning faculties... that's what too much consumption of red stew and excess ororo does to one's IQ. You mock the Igbos for not having an empire, yet in the history of Africa, Igbos were among the few the put up the longest and fiercest resistance to the British colonial war machines. Google the Anglo-Aro wars, and then the Anglo-Ekumeku war which lasted for nearly two decades! all these facts are easily available and accessible on credible sources and database, and have been used for research purposes.

Your useless empire was on record to have been beaten black and blue by the Damohey warriors - I mean you once lost to a bunch of breast-swinging teenage girls for goodness sake , they even beheaded your king (imagine the insult) and sacked your communities before you managed to avoid complete annihilation against small girls.

Aside from Lagos (thanks to the Bini empire), that resisted the British admirably, the whole yaribanza nation fell like a pack of wild cards to the Hausa dominated Royal Niger company commanded by British officers... Aboki sacked all your communities, raped all your ugly women and forced your chiefs and Oba's to sign a peace treaty by force... only the Ijebu people even tried fighting back before they were brutally crushed by maxim guns of the British colonial soldiers.

When you brag about empires, maybe you should learn some humility and learn from your Benin who don't make noise despite having a bigger sphere of influence on the footprints of history when it came to African empires and influence.

Obamaofusa:

lol

So says a generational Osu coward...

davidmarker:


1) Benin empire was a country, a civilised country with a capital and a ruler the king.
2) therefor fighting against Benin was a conventional warfare, one for which britain was very well prepared.
3) igbo were a bunch of tribes with no central ruler, a total mess.
4) fighting igbo was tribe after tribe, you conquer one, you move to the other one, and so on.
5) stop with the "confederacy" talk, there was no such thing.

Basically, the igbo were a bunch of savage tribes. And nobody gave a hoot about your eze nri, you guys just like to add fiction to make things sweet.

Housing:
We can only appreciate sacrifices and efforts of heroes past.

I am a Yoruba man, and I respect Igbos and every other tribes in Nigeria.

Biafra war was lost not because the Igbos were weak but the Biafran leaders want more than secession. South West only got involved when Biafra soldiers were advancing towards South West. Chukumerije boasting that Biafra soldiers will drink tea in Ibadan in two days time and Lagos will be captured in the next three days.

That is why Yoruba will always refer to the battle at Ore. Nigerian soldiers advance with greater speed after the Biafran soldiers lost the Ore battle, every Yoruba son within the Nigerian Army fought Ore battle with their soul.

You can not claim secession and be capturing territory at this same time. That is why I said the Biafran leaders then more than secession.

Nevertheless the Igbos are great men.
Igbo Kwenu

davidmarker:


1) Benin empire was a country, a civilised country with a capital and a ruler the king.
2) therefor fighting against Benin was a conventional warfare, one for which britain was very well prepared.
3) igbo were a bunch of tribes with no central ruler, a total mess.
4) fighting igbo was tribe after tribe, you conquer one, you move to the other one, and so on.
5) stop with the "confederacy" talk, there was no such thing.

Basically, the igbo were a bunch of savage tribes. And nobody gave a hoot about your eze nri, you guys just like to add fiction to make things sweet.

AniOmaa:

The same savage tribes that practiced a structured political and religious system of democracy even acknowledged and studied by foreign scholars? all this achieved despite having a decentralized system of government.