Impact of a broken Nigeria

Why? It would be a risky proposition with little payoff.
Benin was weak proxy of Biafra and Benin included some Igbo majority areas (and it's not like Biafra was ever homogeneous to begin with, so the inclusion of the Edo and unifying the Izon won't do too much to shake the tree). Additionally it controlled Nigeria's rubber industry, so a Biafra with Benin would be slightly less likely to catch Dutch Disease.
 
Biafra (whether or not it annexes Benin) would be fairly prosperous due to the oil and due to the number of educated Igbo there were. I've read that the Igbo before colonialism had somewhat democratic practices compared to the Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba too.

The OPEC crisis and Iranian oil shock would be lessened if the Biafrans are outside of OPEC.

Nigeria threatened to invade Equatorial Guinea historically when the country deported the Nigerian (mostly Igbo I think) workers in Bioko. Maybe Biafra follows through on the threat and gets a bunch of extra oil.
 
Biafra (whether or not it annexes Benin) would be fairly prosperous due to the oil and due to the number of educated Igbo there were. I've read that the Igbo before colonialism had somewhat democratic practices compared to the Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba too.

That would depend on how they deal with the situation in the Niger Delta. The government would likely use the oil revenue (which they'd be dependent on) to enrich themselves first, and then to enrich and develop certain regions of the country. As IOTL, the Niger Delta would likely not get its fair share of the oil reserves. This would breed resentment, which would turn to massive protests, which eventually would turn to attacks on the oil companies, and then there would be a fullscale insurgency to deal with.

Biafra could easily be "Venezuela, but even less developed, and with massive ethnic conflicts on the side."
 

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One thing that always fascinated me regarding the Biafra revolt, is that this was the last Anglo-French proxy war at least that I know of
 
OTL worked out better. I'm about to get rich helping a Prince move some cash to a safer country.

You can laugh, but I know of someone who literally has sent probably $50,000 to Nigeria because he refuses to believe the Prince he is "helping" is a scam.
 
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You can laugh, but i know of someone who literally has sent probably $50,000 to Nigeria because he refuses to believe the Prince he is "helping" is a scam.

Sad.

I haven't received one of those emails in a long time. I would pretend to fall for the scam in order to run interference and divert their efforts from real victims.
 
Sad.

I haven't received one of those emails in a long time. I would pretend to fall for the scam in order to run interference and divert their efforts from real victims.

My usual response to telemarketers is to yell in Mandarin....I don't know Mandarin.

With regards to the topic of the thread, a successful Biafra will make secessionist actions a legitimate tactic in resolving issues within Africa. Probably too late to save Katanga, but could have impacts elsewhere.
 
With regards to the topic of the thread, a successful Biafra will make secessionist actions a legitimate tactic in resolving issues within Africa. Probably too late to save Katanga, but could have impacts elsewhere.
I think all the secessionist actions against the european empires already did that.
 
I think all the secessionist actions against the european empires already did that.

Actually Biafra would have been a gamechanger, probably. The OAU agreed to respect colonial borders after decolonisation and a successful secession of Biafra might have seen secessionist movements around the continent emboldened.
 
Actually Biafra would have been a gamechanger, probably. The OAU agreed to respect colonial borders after decolonisation and a successful secession of Biafra might have seen secessionist movements around the continent emboldened.
But Africa was already awash with independence movements, and I'm not sure how much one succeeding 20 years before Eritrea did IOTL changes things.
 
But Africa was already awash with independence movements, and I'm not sure how much one succeeding 20 years before Eritrea did IOTL changes things.

But hardly any were successful. A successful Biafra becomes a guiding light for many independence movements.

Eritrea is also a special case, the end of the Cold War probably had something to do with Eritrea winning independence. The dynamic in the 1960s was different compared to the 1990s.
 
A moral boost and nothing more. If the material situation remains the same then those rebellions probably still fail.

You're probably right. But a successful breakaway from the most powerful nation in black Africa may have all kinds of butterflies we can't predict yet. And who knows what might happen to international politics - Biafra will face a hostile Nigeria and most other African countries will be hostile to it, so it could well become an ally of South Africa, in the mold of Malawi.

I'm not saying that Biafra winning sees more successful secessionist movements, but it will certainly cause some butterflies, the results of which we can't predict yet.
 
Would a rump Northern Nigeria likely fall to Islamic fundamentalism if so would it lead to a greater spread of Islamism in the Sahel?
 
But hardly any were successful. A successful Biafra becomes a guiding light for many independence movements.

Eritrea is also a special case, the end of the Cold War probably had something to do with Eritrea winning independence. The dynamic in the 1960s was different compared to the 1990s.

You're right. Eritrea was special because Ethiopia annexed it after guaranteeing autonomy to Eritrea. Moreover, Eritrea was a separate colony until the UN recommended it join up with Ethiopia.
 
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