The Igbo secessionist project depended on Niger Delta oil wealth

Evidence

The Igbo dream of creating an independent secessionist nation called Biafra would not have been viable without the sea of oil beneath the Niger Delta, which they included in their projected Biafra. The prospect of losing that oil wealth intensified the ferocity of the Hausa-Yoruba response to the secessionists. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 1082

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Connects to the Niger Delta oil/Saro-Wiwa/Shell material in chapter 22-25 — the resource-capture logic that would later destroy Ogoni.