THE AFRICANS: New Conflicts - Nigerian Civil War
THE AFRICANS: New Conflicts - Nigerian Civil War
The Africans: New Conflicts - Nigerian Civil war of 1967-1970. Regards the constant state of internal conflict endured by many African countries in post-colonial times. Edited unmixed program originally shot on film.
THE AFRICANS: New Conflicts - Nigerian Civil War
Archival B&W footage of 1966 parade in Nigeria: Muslim Hausa and Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, later to be killed in a military coup that year, waving to crowd; Nigerian people waving in return.
THE AFRICANS: New Conflicts - Nigerian Civil War
DO NOT USE Portrait of another Hausa leader.
THE AFRICANS: New Conflicts - Nigerian Civil War
B&W TL/MSs of Ibo refugees - mostly women & children - fleeing from violence in northern Nigeria. Nigerian Civil War
THE AFRICANS: New Conflicts - Nigerian Civil War
B&W Nigerian Civil War. MS/CUs of an Ibo military leader and Biafran secessionist Emeka Ojukwu (Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu) arriving at speaking event. If we are exterminated, our noble culture will disappear with us. I should say that the converse is equally true. If our culture were to disappear, we would lose the will and strength to resist the principalities and powers of wrong. We would lose our identity, self-respect and dignity.
THE AFRICANS: New Conflicts - Nigerian Civil War
TLS/MSs of Ibo soldiers in the liberation army of newly-created Biafra celebrating their independence in song. Nigerian Civil War.
THE AFRICANS: New Conflicts - Nigerian Civil War
B&W shots of the conflict; firearms and mortar fire; a shelled city; Federal troops on the march; tank firing. MS feet of a dead body sticking out of the trunk of a small car pulling away. MSs corpses of dead men, women & children; death, destruction). B&W MS of a young Biafran woman weeping next to a pile of corpses; MS dead bodies strewn on side of rural road. B&W MS of soldiers in jeeps passing along rural road. Nigerian Civil War.
THE AFRICANS: New Conflicts - Nigerian Civil War
Host Ali Mazrui discusses the presence of petroleum reserves in Eastern Nigeria as an integral part of the war.
THE AFRICANS: New Conflicts - Nigerian Civil War
TLS/MSs of belching exhaust flames of an oil refinery; huge plumes of searing fire shoot from pipe and into ditch, fireball rising into the air (oil burning out of an open well). Aerials of a giant oil refinery complex; audio of Biafran leader Emeka Ojukwu speaking on the need to liberate the oil for Biafra.
THE AFRICANS: New Conflicts - Nigerian Civil War
B&W shots of relief workers loading supplies for the Biafra famine onto an airplane; shots of airplanes taking off at night. Nigerian Civil War.
THE AFRICANS: New Conflicts - Nigerian Civil War
Color shots of chunks of airplane that was shot down in Nigerian civil war at Ughelli airstrip in Biafra.
THE AFRICANS: New Conflicts - Nigerian Civil War
Host discusses the internationalization of Nigeria's civil war, based on petroleum interests.
THE AFRICANS: New Conflicts - Nigerian Civil War
Color shots of chunks of airplane that was shot down in Nigerian civil war at Ughelli airstrip in Biafra.
THE AFRICANS: New Conflicts - Nigerian Civil War
B&W archival shots of burned-out buildings, results of the Nigerian Civil War; VO discusses the end of the Civil War, with Biafran independence failing.