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	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Bight
		Bight, in geography, a wide bay formed by a bend or curve in a shoreline.
		Biafra, Bight of, also Bight of Bonny, bay in western Africa, in the eastern part of the Gulf of Guinea, 600 km (400 mi) long.
		The Bight of Benin extends from the mouth of the Volta River to...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Bight.html (110 words)

	Biafra - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Republic of Biafra was a short-lived secessionist state in southeastern Nigeria.
		The country was named after the Bight of Biafra, the bay of the Atlantic to its south.
		Nigerian troops soon recovered however, advancing into Biafra, and forcing the repeated transfer of the Biafran capital from Enugu to Aba and then Umuahia by the end of the year, and to Owerri in 1969.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia?title=Biafra&action=edit (416 words)

	Bight of Bonny - TheBestLinks.com - Bight of Biafra, Africa, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bight of Bonny - TheBestLinks.com - Bight of Biafra, Africa, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea,...
		Bight of Biafra, Bight of Bonny, Africa, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon...
		The Bight of Bonny (formerly Bight of Biafra) is a bay at the African coast in the Gulf of Guinea.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Bight_of_Biafra.html (144 words)

	Biafra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Republic of Biafra was a short-lived secessionist state in south-eastern Nigeria.
		The Biafra's national anthem uses the Finlandia tune by Jean Sibelius.
		Nigeria later renamed the Bight of Biafra as the Bight of Bonny.
	www.enlightenweb.net /b/bi/biafra.html (264 words)

	Bight of Bonny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bight of Bonny (also known as the Bight of Biafra) is a bight off the African coast in the Gulf of Guinea.
		The bight was renamed in Nigeria in 1972, when after the Biafran war the Nigerian government wanted to remove the name of the secessionist Biafra.
		Countries located at the Bight of Bonny are Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bight_of_Bonny (129 words)

	Biafra Republic Of: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Biafra's original capital was Enugu ; Aba, Umuahia, and Owerri served successively as provisional capitals after Enugu was captured (Oct., 1967) by Nigerian forces.
		Washington, DC...Slaving to Neoslavery: The Bight of Biafra and Fernando Po in the Era of Abolition...
		BIAFRA, REPUBLIC OF secessionist state of W Africa...which took its name from the Bight of Biafra (an arm of the Atlantic Ocean), was...Nigeria imposed economic sanctions on Biafra from the start of the secession, and fighting between...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/101232695 (1676 words)

	AllRefer.com - Biafra, Republic of, Africa History (African History) - Encyclopedia
		Biafra, Republic of, secessionist state of W Africa, in existence from May 30, 1967, to Jan. 15, 1970.
		At the outset Biafra comprised, roughly, the East-Central, South-Eastern, and Rivers states of the Federation of Nigeria, where the Igbo people predominated.
		Biafra's original capital was Enugu; Aba, Umuahia, and Owerri served successively as provisional capitals after Enugu was captured (Oct., 1967) by Nigerian forces.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Biafra-R.html (434 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Bight
		Bight, (from Old English byht), in geography, a wide bay formed by a bend or curve in a shoreline.
		Bonny, Bight of, also Bight of Biafra, bay of the Atlantic Ocean, western Africa, in the eastern part of the Gulf of Guinea, about 640 km (400 mi)...
		Benin, Bight of, bay of the Atlantic Ocean, western Africa, about 640 km (400 mi) wide along a baseline from Cape St Paul, Ghana, in the west to the...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Bight.html (102 words)

	Biafra
		The secession in the country's former Eastern Region, home to most of Nigeria's 8 million Igbo (or Ibo) people, followed mass killings of Igbo migrants living in northern Nigeria (May, September 1966) after a short-lived bloody coup attempt by Igbo army officers the previous January.
		Nigerian troops advanced into the country, forcing the repeated transfer of the Biafran capital from Enugu to Aba, Umuahia and Owerri successively.
		This conflict inspired Jello Biafra in his choice of name.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/b/bi/biafra.html (291 words)

	Biafra -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Republic of Biafra was a short-lived secessionist state in southeastern (A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; gained independence from Britain in 1960; most populous African country) Nigeria.
		The country was named after the (additional info and facts about Bight of Biafra) Bight of Biafra, the bay of the (The 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east) Atlantic to its south.
		Nigerian troops soon recovered however, advancing into Biafra, and forcing the repeated transfer of the Biafran capital from Enugu to (A fabric woven from goat and camel hair) Aba and then (additional info and facts about Umuahia) Umuahia by the end of the year, and to (additional info and facts about Owerri) Owerri in 1969.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bi/biafra.htm (646 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Biafra
		Biafra, Republic of, short-lived secessionist state (1967-1970) of the Igbo people in southeastern Nigeria.
		Gowon, Yakubu, born in 1934, head of the federal military government of Nigeria (1966-75).
		Biafra, Republic of: picture related to the Republic of Biafra
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Biafra.html (92 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Bight
		Helgoland Bight, Battle of, naval engagement of World War I, fought between British and German fleets on August 28, 1914.
		Nuyts’s discovery was never officially proclaimed, but in 1628, within a year of his voyage, Dutch cartographer Hessel Gerritszoon produced a map of...
		Lagos (Nigeria), city in southwestern Nigeria, in Lagos State, located on the Bight of Benin (an arm of the Atlantic Ocean).
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/searchdetail.aspx?q=Bight&pg=1&grp=art (301 words)

	Biafra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It was recognised by a small number of countries during its existence, including South Africa, however that country's support of apartheid discouraged wider recognition by other African nations that might otherwise have been sympathetic to the Biafran cause.
		Nigerian troops soon recovered however, advancing into Biafra, and forcing the repeated transfer of the Biafran capital from Enugu to Aba, NigeriaAba and then Umuahia by the end of the year, and to Owerri in 1969.
		Biafraland - The official site of the Biafra Actualization Forum, which presents a point of view that seems close to that of the MASSOB, the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, which is the main group currently still advocating the restoration of Biafra.
	www.33beat.com /Biafra.html (421 words)

	Call for Papers: Repercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 07/00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Bight of Biafra was one of the most important sources of enslaved Africans sent to the Americas in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
		Moreover the repercussions of the trans-Atlantic slave trade on the interior of the Bight of Biafra during the period of heaviest population displacement in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries remain poorly understood.
		The aim of this conference is to explore the repercussions of the trans-Atlantic slave trade on both the Biafran interior and on the diaspora, especially the emergence of ethnic identities, both in diaspora and in the Biafran hinterland.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /African_Studies/Current_Events/atlant700.html (320 words)

	Biafra articles and news from Start Learning Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The country was named after the Bight of Biafra, the bay of the Atlantic OceanAtlantic to its south.
		Biafra was recognised by a small number of countries during its existence: Gabon, Haiti, CÃ´te d'IvoireIvory Coast, Tanzania, and Zambia.
		Biafra's national anthem used the Finlandia HymnFinlandia tune by Jean Sibelius.
	www.startlearningnow.com /Biafra.htm (690 words)

	Bight of Biafra -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		It lies on the northern edge of the island of Bioko (or Fernando Po) on the rim of a sunken volcano.
		Akwa Ibom is bounded by the Cross River on the east and by the Bight of Biafra of the Atlantic Ocean on the south.
		It is located on the equator in the part of the Gulf of Guinea known as the Bight of Biafra.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9079080 (762 words)

	THISDAYonline
		At the southern end of Nigeria, were situated two Bights, one was Biafra and the other Benin.
		Biafra's negotiating team was led by General Philips Effiong while Nigeria was headed by General Olusegun Obasanjo, the present president of Nigeria.
		The Federal Government proscription of Bight of Biafra with an obvious intent of obliterating everything Biafra, was certainly an exercise in futility.
	www.thisdayonline.com /archive/2001/04/10/20010410com02.html (1703 words)

	Bight of Benin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Bight of Benin is a bay on the western African coast that extends eastward for about 400 miles (640 km) from Cape St. Paul to the Nun outlet of the Niger River.
		To the east it is continued by the Bight Of Bonny (formerly Bight of Biafra).
		The Bight of Benin is known for its fearsome tides and has a long association with slavery.
	centipedia.com /articles/Bight_of_Benin (186 words)

	Landlord speaks: What Biafra means to us, Igbo
		A region of eastern Nigeria on the Bight of Biafra, an arm of the Gulf of Guinea stretching from the Niger River delta to northern Gabon.
		Biafra is a concept, an idea that appealed to us on the belief that we shall overcome our travails in the hands of the conniving Yoruba and their Hausa masters.
		You asked and continued to insult by asking what the literal meaning of Biafra is/was and we told you the name appealed to us based on the historical facts behind the Bight of Biafra in West Africa (similar history of oppression etc).
	www.kwenu.com /publications/ndubueze/biafra_means.htm (3205 words)

	Nigeria - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At the last moment Gowon had announced a new federal structure for Nigeria, one composed of 12 states (each with a military governor), in an attempt to break the solidarity of the Ibo movement by quelling fears about a large and potentially aggressive northern region.
		The federal troops were able to make territorial gains in fringe areas of Biafra that were less densely Ibo, but only gradually did the advance succeed, until resistance was concentrated in the core of Iboland.
		Yet the war could not be pushed easily to a conclusion, a state of affairs that owed much to the stubborness of Ibo resistance, but which intensified the sufferings of the people of Biafra.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Nigeria (3753 words)

	Biafra, Republic of
		At the outset Biafra comprised, roughly, the East-Central, South-Eastern, and Rivers states of the Federation of
		Biafra, Bight of - Biafra, Bight of, eastern bay of the Gulf of Guinea, W Africa.
		Biafra Foundation Statement on The Killing Of Christian Biafrans In Nigeria.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0807443.html (431 words)

	Nigeria
		6 Aug 1861 Bights of Biafra and Benin a united protectorate.
		Bight of Biafra: Bonny 1849-1885; Bight of Benin:
		Consuls of the Bight of Biafra (from 6 Aug 1861, Bights of Biafra and Benin)
	www.worldstatesmen.org /Nigeria.htm (1340 words)

	The Igbo Organization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Igboland lies north of the Bight of Biafra to the east and the Bight of Benin to the west, between latitudes 5 and 7 degrees north of the Equator and longitudes 6 and 8
		However, history and geography still record the Bight of Benin and the Bight of Biafra.
		Biafra is synonymous with Igboland and should not be remembered only in connection with the Nigeria-Biafra war.
	www.igbo-organization-newyork.org /igbo.html (1034 words)

	Biafra -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Biafra ceased to exist as an independent state in January 1970.
		Nigerian military leader and politician, who was head of the secessionist state of Biafra during the Nigerian civil war.
		On May 30, 1967, Ojukwu declared the secession of the three Eastern states under the name of the Republic of Biafra, which the federal government interpreted as an act of rebellion.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9079079?tocId=9079079 (606 words)

	Biafra - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		BIAFRA STORY : The Making of an African Legend
		Surviving in Biafra: The Story of the Nigerian Civil War
		Shadows : Airlift and Airwar in Biafra and Nigeria 1967-1970
	www.unipedia.info /Biafra.html (483 words)

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		In the course of the following years treaties - confirming in some cases already existing ones - were signed with several of the coastal states and peoples (Old Calabar 1850, Itsekiri 1851,...), but until 1885, British control remained in fact very loose and limited to the major trading regions, known as the Oil Rivers.
		Consuls of the Bight of Biafra and Benin (3) (3) A separate consul for the western coast of later Nigeria - styled "Bight of Benin" - had been appointed in 1852.
		After the annexation of Lagos in 1861 many of his tasks were taken over by the administrators of this new colony, the remaining ones being taken over by the consul for the bight of Biafra who was restyled "of Biafra and Benin".
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Rotunda/2209/Eastern_Nigeria.html (738 words)

	AllRefer.com - Biafra, Bight of, Africa (African Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Biafra, Bight of, Africa (African Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Biafra, Bight of[bEA´fru] Pronunciation Key, eastern bay of the Gulf of Guinea, W Africa.
		The bight gave its name to the secessionist Republic of Biafra in E Nigeria (1967–70).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Biafra-B.html (159 words)

	Powell's Books - From Slaving to Neoslavery: The Bight of Biafra and Fernando Po in the Era of Abolition, 1827-1930 by ...
		Sundiata (African and African-American studies, Brandeis U.) offers a comprehensive history of labor relations on the largest West African island, from its belated colonization in the later 19th century to the virtual extinction of the native culture.
		He challenges the conventional model of free labor displacing slavery by examining how interactions between Africans and colonialism were influenced by the environment, disease, slavery, abolition, and indigenous state formation.
		The Bight of Biafra and Fernando Po in the Era of Abolition, 1827-1930
	www.powells.com /biblio?PID=28081&cgi=product&isbn=0299145107 (136 words)

	Table of contents for Repercussions of the Atlantic slave trade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Table of contents for Repercussions of the Atlantic slave trade : the interior of the Bight of Biafra and the African diaspora / Carolyn Brown...
		Slave trade -- Biafra, Bight of, Region -- History.
		Slavery -- Biafra, Bight of, Region -- History.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip054/2004029019.html (150 words)

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