Biafra and Niger

What the fuck was their problem?

Igbo had long dealt with Muslim enslavement and also had a long mutualistic relationship with Europeans which benefitted them in terms of education and adaptation to shifting economic and social norms.

They also were the lucrative colony of Nigeria which was divided between the Woodland and Sahelian savanna and did not benefit from a united Nigeria.

So they wanted to be free of the Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani.

Sad thing is their nation would be very rich and powerful had they succeeded but the British saw no benefit.

>what is right for self-determination

The French wanted to turn them into a puppet state to spite the bongs

>what is a conversation starter

>Was walking through Trafalgar Square one afternoon
>bunch of black Africans dancing around outside the National Gallery
>Ask one of them what's up
>about three of them start ranting about Biafra and Nigeria without really saying anything in particular
>a group of blacks uninvolved in the demonstration overhear and come striding over
>both begin screaming and shouting at each other, again, about nothing in particular with me standing in between looking scared
>Bobby comes over and pulls me out
>Ask him what's going on
>he says "just a lot of Pillocks"
>carry on with my day, never again thinking of Biafra until today

The wanted an ethnically homogeneous sovereign nation-state, but the globalist imperialists (UK and USSR on the same side at the height of the Cold War) didn't want that, and so it was harshly put down

its a shame they did not succeed
balkanizing africa would be good for everyone

This
It's ridiculous how the post-colonial borders are the only recognized ones
See Somaliland vs Somalia

But that would mean and that's both racist and unprofitable

>balkanizing africa would be good for everyone
It's been horrible so far in the world. Why would Africa be different?

>It's been horrible so far in the world
That's where you're wrong

>Yugoslav wars
>Post USSR chaos
Where in the world has Balkanization been a success?

Dissolution of the austro-hungarian empire

That was agreed to be pretty awful for Europe in retrospect.

That was an unmitigated catastrophe.
>Galicia tossed around between Poland and USSR, still a shithole to this day
>Austria goes fascist for a while, then gets annexed by Hitler
>Czechoslovakia is a country where everyone hates each other's guts and ends up getting partitioned
>Hungary eternally butthurt about Trianon and dooming themselves even further trying to reverse it
>Yugoslavia AKA disaster: the country

>>Hungary eternally butthurt about Trianon
rightfully so.

>>Czechoslovakia is a country where everyone hates each other's guts and ends up getting partitioned
You're a retard, that's not true in the slightest.
They only separated because of vocal minority of Slovak post-communists. The split never had public support.

The split in 1939? There was plenty of support.

>The split in 1939? There was plenty of support.
Oh right, you're baiting. Should have realized from the start.

Are you yet another Czech who got Czechoslovakist propaganda hammered into him in school?

Are you a retarded slovak nationalist?

EUROSHITS GET OUT
GET THE FUCK OUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BIAFRA!
TAKE THIS SOMEWHERE ELSE

It's relevant. For the record, balkanization isn't just partition but is described as "the splitting of countries into smaller, mutually hostile units." It would be an awful thing to happen to Africa on a large scale. Hell, look at South Sudan. The civil war became a traditional war. Beyond that, nothing changed.

Niggers are r selected subhuman savages.

>Biafra was the one with the problem

Balkanisation yes, but /int/ level shitposting.
go to Sleep.

based france

This. The forced multiculturalism left behind from decolonization kneecapped any possible success. Multiculturalism is just internal empire; one state ruling multiple nations. Like all empires, it's doomed to failure without an organized hierarchy and swift/brutal hand to keep the different nations in check. Freedom cannot exist in an empire or multicultural society, since they are the same thing.

Biafra should be independent. Pretty much all of Nigeria's oil is there so it's like Nigeria without the overpopulation and terrorism

Anyone who says balkanisation in Africa is a good thing is a real retard.

The nations that do the best in Africa are the ones with long history of statehood and/or monoethnic ones.
Namibia, Botswana, Rwanda, South Africa.

They also had British colonial infrastructure and an easier transition from colonialism than French ones did, provided they only wanted formal black african independence and still allowed foreign parties to control their resources via neoliberal global market. And tho I do say that with the implication that its a bad thing of course I dont mean to suggest that Zimbabwes path was a good alternative