Nigeria: Massob: the Real New Face of Igbo?

2 September 2004
opinion

Many Nigerians have confessed that the degree of success of the passive "mass action" called by the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) on August 26, 2004, took them by complete surprise.

On that day, and perhaps for the first time since the war ended, the Igbo people across the nooks and crannies of Nigeria and beyond, responded with nearly absolute unanimity to a call by an Igbo group for a one-day total boycott of all economic and social activities as a mark of identification with the renewed recourse to the Biafra idea.

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