A pair of sacred statues that a Nigerian museum commission and protesters said were looted during the country’s 1960s civil war fetched $239,000 at auction in Paris on Monday. A Princeton University scholar, Chika Okeke-Agulu, alongside Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments, raised alarms this month that the objects were looted during the Biafran war in the late 1960s. …
A Nigerian soldier controls the traffic in Aba, in a pro-Biafra separatist zone. Then an anthem begins to play, and a voice says “Kedu” — “how are you” in the Igbo language — to welcome listeners to the daily broadcast of Radio Biafra. Ultimately, the rebels surrendered and the area was reintegrated into Nigeria under the government motto “No victor, …
