![]() ![]() I don’t see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight us harder.’ Unfortunately for the would-be Republic of Biafra in the south-east, the world was wedded to the status quo of colonial boundaries. In the words of Ọbáfẹmi Awólọ́wọ́, then the federal minister of finance, ‘all is fair, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. S even years after Nigeria won independence from British rule in 1960, the country descended into a two-and-a-half-year civil war during which between 500,000 and three million people died, mostly from starvation. ![]()
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