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Chantel Pomerville IB History II IA The Biafran War Nigeria was born out of conflict. The British control over Nigeria in the 1950's began to gradually lessen as the Africans held privileged positions in their own government, and increasingly became more 'autonomous'. Nigeria was a British colony until its independence in 1963, when Nigeria became a republic with four regional governments, in which the ruling party dominated the new nation (Owhonda, 43). The new nation was elated about independence and democracy, but leery of how they would go about pacifying over two hundred ethnic groups that resided in the country (Nwankwo, 10). Two of the main ethnic groups, the Igbo and the Hausa-Fulani, carried significant differences between them. The Igbo were from eastern Nigeria, and were largely Christian. They have very decentralized villages, and a system of strong family ties. The Hausa-Fulani were Islamic, and set up a series of small states,...

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