Biafra independence It then recognized, among others, Zambia, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon and Haiti. Military support came from Portugal, France, South Africa and Israel, although it turned out years later that the latter was equally willing to support the Nigerian government forces.
Desire for separation with Israeli support
War of Independence It lasted three years and claimed the lives of one to two million civilians.
Born in the year the uprising broke out Nnamdi KanuBiafran secessionist and founder of the secessionist group indigenous people of biafran. Although he is also a British citizen, he has been in Nigeria intermittently since 2015, in a prison in the capital. Federal authorities have charged him with “racial incitement and the crime of high treason” for promoting secession and seeking support for Israel. Well-organized social media groups he controls continue to call for such support.
Kano has his supporters not only in Nigeria. In Tel Aviv It is held on May 30th of each year. March to commemorate Biafra Independence DayWhere Israeli youths are demanding his release.
The Hypocritical History of Judaism in Nigeria
Before his arrest, Kanu hosted programmes on the radio station he founded, in which he spoke: Visions of an Independent Jewish BiafraHe stressed that there are 70 million Biafrans in the world, 50 million of whom are Jews.
He told his listeners about the Jewish customs of his people, including circumcision, prayer, the yarmula, the Torah, and fasting. He said that the Jews of Biafra were descendants of Eri, the fifth son of Gad, which also made them descendants of Jacob. Before the exodus from Egypt, Eri is said to have fled with his family and a group of Jews across North Africa and reached the Anambra Valley, in what is now southern Nigeria, where he is said to have founded a temple where his descendants have prayed for thousands of years. “Until the Christian missionaries came and started depriving the Igbo of their original religion.”.
In fact, there were no Jews or Jewish women in Nigeria before the 1967 uprising.Followers of various Christian churches began to practice Judaism en masse, inspired by American Jews who had appeared on the Nigerian coast with the discovery of new oil deposits. Under their influence, the Biafrans quickly became followers of Moses, importing and absorbing the rituals and accompanying Hebrew language, which they learned diligently online. It is estimated that approximately 30,000 people practice Judaism in Biafra. Africans, and they have about 80 synagogues at their disposal.
However, according to Howard Goren, a retired American rabbi who has visited Biafra several times and is even considered the chief rabbi of Nigeria, At least 3,000 people practice Judaism in this country. People in 20 synagogues.
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