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SEPTEMBER 10, 1974: THE DAY PORTUGAL FINALLY RECOGNIZED GUINEA-BISSAU’S INDEPENDENCE 🇬🇼 SEPTEMBER 10, 1974: THE DAY PORTUGAL FINALLY RECOGNIZED GUINEA-BISSAU’S INDEPENDENCE What if a country declared its independence—but its colonial ruler refused to recognize it for another year? That was the reality faced by Guinea-Bissau. On September 10, 1974, Portugal formally recognized the independence ofContinue reading “SEPTEMBER 10, 1974: THE DAY PORTUGAL FINALLY RECOGNIZED GUINEA-BISSAU’S INDEPENDENCE”

MOHAMMED ABACHA AND HAMZA AL-MUSTAPHA AT THE LAGOS HIGH CO’URT — OCTOBER 14, 1999 MOHAMMED ABACHA AND HAMZA AL-MUSTAPHA AT THE LAGOS HIGH CO’URT — OCTOBER 14, 1999 This striking photograph shows Mohammed Abacha (left), son of former milit@ry Head of State General Sani Abacha, and Major Hamza al-Mustapha (right), who served as Abacha’s ChiefContinue reading “MOHAMMED ABACHA AND HAMZA AL-MUSTAPHA AT THE LAGOS HIGH CO’URT — OCTOBER 14, 1999”

Major-General Philip Effiong and the End of the Nigerian Civil War Major-General Philip Effiong and the End of the Nigerian Civil War This historic photograph shows Major-General Philip Effiong inspecting a hand grenade around 1969, during one of the most difficult periods of the Nigerian Civil War. By then, the secessionist Republic of Biafra wasContinue reading “Major-General Philip Effiong and the End of the Nigerian Civil War”