What is it about?
Drawing on the literature on diaspora nationalism with a focus on the case of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)—a transnational separatist movement—we reveal evidence showing how the Igbo diaspora instigate and exacerbate separatist tensions in the homeland by reviving collective memories of the macabre Nigeria-Biafra war (1967–1970) and reimagining alternative political futures for ethnic Igbos devoid of the state’s grand narratives of nationhood.
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Why is it important?
We contend that the diasporic dimension is profoundly critical to comprehending separatist agitations in southeastern Nigeria with implications for wider postcolonial African contexts.
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Sidestepping the diasporic component of secessionism limits our vision of the bigger picture.
Stanley Onyemechalu
University of Nigeria
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This page is a summary of: Long-distance nationalism, diaspora mobilisation, and the struggle for Biafran self-determination in Nigeria, Ethnicities, October 2023, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/14687968231208307.
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