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Republic of African state proclaimed in
1967 when fears that Nigerian central
government was increasingly in the hands of
the rival Hausa tribe led the predominantly
Ibo Eastern Region of Nigeria to secede under
Lt-Col Odumegwu Ojukwu, an Oxford-educated
Ibo. On the proclamation of Biafra, civil war
ensued with the rest of the federation. In a
bitterly fought campaign federal forces had
confined the Biafrans to a shrinking area of
the interior by 1968, and by 1970 Biafra
ceased to exist.