The Worst Injustice is Forgotten

The worst injustice is forgotten: BOFF IN DIPLOMATIC SOLDIERING! 56 years as a captive country under Nigeria is ENOUGH!!

BOFF means the Biafran Organization of Freedom
Fighters

CORE VALUES:

Belief that without Biafra we have become the bastards of humanity... nationalists without a banner. Without Biafra, we will find neither freedom nor peace.

Mission: A non- violent campaign for Nigeria and the United Nations to recognize the Republic of Biafra as a sovereign nation state in order to avoid the current “peace without justice” between Biafra and Nigeria. Nigeria deliberately starved Biafran children to death arguing that starvation is an instrument of warfare

1968

CELINE AKOSUA HENRY-

“After dinner, we watch how people starve and die in Africa”

The role of photojournalism, television images and other media during the Biafran war.
Celine Akosua Henry
1968 marked a new era of tabloid broadcasting and television news showing images of starved
Biafrans.

From their living rooms, Britons watched an array of news flashes and video clips of children lacking protein and suffering from kwashiorkor evinced in their perverse pot bellies. As a Baron in the House of the Lord said “thanks to the miracle of. television we see history happening before our eyes.

We see no Ibo propaganda; we see facts”. It is worth considering the role of photojournalism, television images and other media in shaping this
narrative of poverty and suffering.
The war in its first year was not popular within the international community, it was not ‘news-worthy’ as tensions like America’s war with Vietnam, Biafra was seen as merely a secession on ethnic grounds
in Nigeria. Yet, as reportage on dying children in Biafra hit Western media airwaves in the summer of 1968, a swarm of newspapers all around the
world arrived in Nigeria in an attempt to get to Biafra, to report the horror they had heard about.
All across the summer photos like these found their way into news spreads such as Life, The Times and the Sunday Times and within an array of British and Western tabloids. This saw the influx of reporters, television crews and photographers making their way to Biafra.

LIFE

56 YEARS AFTER

Our Diplomatic Soldiering

Biafrans in captivity in Nigeria have remained secondhand citizens. OUR DIPLOMATIC SOLDIERING agenda is to RECOGNIZE Biafra at the United Nations, and to FREE Nnamdi Kanu. Our Philosophy is Agha Uche and not Agha Egbe na Nma. (Reconciliation through reasoning, intellect, wisdom and NOT through the now primitive war of Guns and Knives. Join the BOFF Campaign, if you can. Ubuntu: I am nothing without you. You are nothing without me. We are nothing without each other!! There is Victory in our Quest for self-determination.