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The Nigerian Civil War in the International Press

Nigeria was the West's last straw in Africa. Nigeria had been built up as the most promising of the new nations, the greatest success story of Western colonialism. But here she was, yet another victim of the African virus of political instability. Conservatives were gleeful. It reinforced what they had been trying to tell the world for such a long time: these black Africans were savages; they should not have become independent; they were incapable of governing themselves; order could only be maintained in these barbarous areas of the woild by benign white rule. Liberals were pained. Their hope…