ANGUISH AND HOPE, TRAJECTORY AND ERASURE: THE STRUGGLES OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is a secessionist political organization that has since 1967 sought to break out from Nigeria. This organization is not “Indigenous” in the context of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) discourse. However, the analogies of UNDRIP and the Tsilhqot’in Nation can be used to…