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Emmanuel Okoroafor Okoro
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I'm proudly Biafra not because I'm from biafra land but because biafra is a spirit and is living in me i was born 🤱 Biafran and I will die ⚰️ Biafran ⚔️. #IPOB
May 28, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Today in History: Igbo Landing took place.

On this day, May 28, 1803, around 75 Igbo slaves who were being transported by sea revolted by capsizing their ship and drowned themselves while singing in Igbo, a song that translates to

Retweet to educate someone on your timeline "the water spirit brought us. The water spirit will take us home". (Mmụọ mmiri du anyị bịa, mmụọ mmiri ga-edu anyị laa.)

Igbo Landing is a historic site at Dunbar Creek on St. Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia. In May 1803, one of the largest mass suicides of enslaved
May 26, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Today in History: Biafra seceded from Nigeria.

On May 26, 1967, the Ojukwu decreed to secede from Nigeria after consultations with community leaders from across the Eastern Region. Four days later, Ojukwu unilaterally declared the independence of... (1/2)

RT to educate someone Image rep. of Biafra, cited that Ndi Igbo were unjustly killed in the post-coup violence as reasons for the declaration of independence.

This brought about the Nigerian-Biafran Civil War of 1967-1970 that claimed over 3.5 million lives of Ndi Igbo.

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