INTRO: The horrible incidence of civil war between Nigeria and the secessionist Biafra between July 6, 1967 and January 15, 1970 is better imagined than experienced. The bloody war claimed millions of lives of Biafrans especially through the blockade strategy of the war. Several accounts of the war have been written either from experience, careful study, or both, and none of them is pleasurable to read given the reports of tear-jerking humanitarian crises that are rife in those accounts. For instance, the account on the effect of the blockade against Biafra which made the ribs of Biafran children countable, and their bellies float-able out of Kwashiorkor. Now, the question is why did the Nigerian Civil War break out? The reasons for and causes of the Nigeria Civil War are as follows: 1. Ethnic Pluralism : Nigeria is a product of British colonialism which separated kith and kin, and united total strangers with the errors of the Berlin C...
...so, why ask why?