An Open Letter To The British Broadcasting Corporation

An Open Letter To The British Broadcasting Corporation

Monday 8th May, 2026

Re: Surviving Biafra

This open letter will serve as a protest to your recent attempt to continue to parrot a lie about Biafrans, especially Igbo Biafrans. This is about your recent partial and biased documentary —Surviving Biafra— in which you pretended to have done some journalistic work.

Even though we could not stop the release of such a propaganda work dressed as journalism, this open letter will serve as a total rejection of your subtle attempt to resurrect the seed of tribal friction you buried during every election cycle and to try to paint Biafrans as people deserving of the gruesome killings levied against them unjustifiably.

The title “Surviving Biafra” is a semantic that implies that Biafra was an object of survival — a lived experience that involved the totality of all the challenges including the inadequacy of propaganda narrative. It was vastly known that the BBC was a propaganda tool of the British government, a role that it still plays regrettably till this moment.

It is, therefore, with every ounce of self awareness that I find it quite intriguing that the BBC would want to tell a story about Biafrans, in a Nigerian election cycle, using the children of Yoruba soldiers who murdered Biafrans while craftily omitting the part it played. It is well known that the BBC, before the advent of social media, had a monopoly of news.

After proper consideration, we vehemently oppose the propaganda documentary because the BBC was unable to pass the integrity, credibility and maturity test. Since it masterfully left significant and important part of the genocidal war without telling how it incited tribal hatred against Igbo Biafrans since 1945 that reached its peak in 1966.

The BBC also deliberately ignored the Aburi Accord and the shameful role Britain played by ill advising Yakubu Gowon to go to war instead of delivering on the agreement he accepted in Ghana. Neither did the BBC explain that the military coup was mis-characterized an Igbo coup and happened due to political turmoil in western Nigeria.

It is, therefore, pertinent, after careful consideration, to state unequivocally that the BBC lacks the moral latitude to tell the Biafran story when there is no remorse shown by acknowledging that the BBC played an arduous and ignoble roles that set off the unpleasant chain reaction resulting in millions of deaths of mostly Biafran children and women.

Cease and desist from producing anything, whether for entertainment or educational purposes, Biafran until you purge your guilt by at least rendering an apology for your infamy contribution to the genocidal war, and the general ethnic and tribal tension in Nigeria in order to avoid future legal redress. There may be one in future to hold you accountable; your cessation of propaganda narrative and apology may still not insulate you from one.

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