The Biafra Zionist Front (BZF), formerly known as the Biafra Zionist Movement[1] and also known as the Biafra Zionists Federation,[2] is a group agitating for the restoration of Biafra and its independence from Nigeria. The movement’s purpose is the actualization of the sovereign state of Biafra along precolonial lines.

The group claims to be supported by Israel and the United States and explicitly relates its cause to the Zionist movement.[3]

Anyone have socialist analysis of the history of Nigeria, because stumbling across this definitely got me wonder wtf has been going on there over the years. From my vague and brief reading, seems like another Euro-colonialist strategy of escalating ethnic tensions to maintain dominance via instability.

This is also such a weird historical moment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Benin_(1967)

The Republic of Benin was a short-lived unrecognized secessionist state in West Africa that existed for seven hours in 1967. It was established on 19 September 1967 during the Nigerian Civil War as a puppet state of Biafra, following its occupation of Nigeria’s Mid-Western Region