Filmmaker Meji Alabi directs a landmark BBC Africa Eye documentary about Nigeria's civil war.

The BBC World Service has announced a landmark documentary on the Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War, featuring eye-witness accounts and previously unseen archive f ...

Editor's note: Fifty years ago, the Biafran War officially came to an end with the signing of the surrender documents by Gen. Philip Effiong, the administrator of Biafra, after Col. Chukwuemeka ...

Fifty-three years after the Biafran War ended, the impact of the devastating Nigerian civil war remains mostly undercovered in the public imagination save for Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2006 novel, ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has called on people of the South-East region across Nigeria and in the diaspora to observe May 30, 2026, as a solemn day of remembrance for ...

Justina Nnenna Opara’s slender but weighty memoir arrives as an act of remembrance and moral witness. Written from the vantage of a woman recalling her girlhood in Owerri and its surrounding villages ...

On a pitch-black night during the height of the Biafran war, a mother stood over a flickering hearth, her body trembling with a quiet, inward sobbing. Around her feet, her children wept, their bellies ...

The BBC World Service and Nigerian filmmaker Meji Alabi are gearing up to launch their documentary on the Nigerian Civil War, ...

After 20 months of fierce fighting, the Biafran war is at a virtual stale mate. The only thing about it that seems certain to intensify is human suffering. Ibo tribesmen under Lieut. Colonel ...

Thursday marks more than 50 years since Chukwuemeka Ojukwu announced the breakaway state of Biafra in the Igbo-majority South-East of Nigeria. Ex-Royal Canadian Air Force pilot Lynn Garrison, now 87, ...

Onyii is all of 15, but she is battle-worn on every level. She sports a robotic arm — her human one was severed in conflict — and worries she’ll lose her sister, Ify, at any minute. As one of the ...