If you've been around here a while you'll know that I have a major obsession with the 1967-70 war in Nigeria, when the Eastern Re...

Once again our friend Rainer has come through with an exceedingly rare artifact from the golden age of Nigerian highlife music, in this ca...

Note: This post was updated on October 4, 2009. My post "Divided Loyalties" inspired an anonymous reader to make available an in...

The recent dénouement of the 25-year Tamil insurgency in Sri Lanka was reminiscent in many ways of the end of the Biafran war in Nigeria in...