The Biafran war's buried history is being clawed back from the shadows. A Grammy-winning director, whose name is being withheld until formal confirmation, has disclosed a trove of documents and personal testimony from his Nigerian grandfather that directly implicates British intelligence in the logistics of the 1967-1970 conflict. Sources close to the revelation confirm that the grandfather, a former civil servant in the Eastern Region, recorded detailed accounts of covert arms shipments and diplomatic manoeuvres designed to prolong the war.
The director, known for documentary work on African identity, broke his silence in an exclusive interview with this outlet. 'My grandfather kept notebooks. He said the British knew the suffering they were causing.
They didn't care,' he stated. The documents, which include coded messages and ledgers, suggest a systematic effort to undermine the secessionist state while publicly maintaining neutrality. A senior British historian at the University of London, speaking on condition of anonymity, has called for the immediate declassification of Foreign Office records from the period.
'We have a moral obligation to examine these claims. The archives are sealed for 75 years. That's a convenient wall,' the historian said.
The revelation comes amid renewed international pressure on Nigeria and the UK to confront the legacy of a war that killed an estimated three million people, mostly from starvation. The director plans to release a full dossier within weeks. The British government has not commented.
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