After suffering through years of suppression under Nigeria’s military government, the breakaway state of Biafra proclaimed its independence from Nigeria.
In 1960, Nigeria gained independence from Britain. Six years later, the Muslim Hausas in northern Nigeria began massacring the Christian Igbos in the region, prompting tens of thousands of Igbos to flee to the east, where their people were the dominant ethnic group. The Igbos doubted that Nigeria’s oppressive military government would allow them to develop, or even survive, so on May 30, 1967, Lieutenant Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu and other non-Igbo representatives of the area established the Republic of Biafra, comprising several states of Nigeria.
Since that moment, a lot of people, great individuals have joined the Biafran struggle all in the hope of seceding from Nigeria and amalgamating all South Eastern states under the Independent Republic of Biafra.
Notable mentions among them are Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Ralph Uwazuruike of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, Princewill Chimezie Richard of the Biafra Nations Youth League and many others who have fought and are still fighting for the cause.
This song by the Biafran Music Industry (BMI) has been sung to honor their exploits and raise the spirits of the average Biafran man to assure him that better days are coming and the sun will shine one day.
AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK
