JOURNAL ARTICLE: Long-Distance Nationalism, Diaspora Mobilisation, And The Struggle For Biafran Self-Determination In Nigeria.

Through the lens of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in south-eastern Nigeria, and drawing on the concept of long-distance nationalism, this article broadens the erstwhile literature on secessionist agitations in post-colonial Africa by underscoring its diasporic dimension. 

This work, published in the journal, Ethnicites, shows how the Igbo diaspora exacerbates separatist tensions in the homeland by reviving collective memories of the macabre Nigeria-Biafra war (1967–1970) and reimagining alternative political futures for ethnic Igbos devoid of the state’s grand narratives of nationhood. It contends that the diasporic dimension is profoundly critical to comprehending separatist agitations in southeastern Nigeria with implications for wider postcolonial African contexts.

Read the full journal article here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/14687968231208307