As Biafran Lobbyists Intensify Pressure, Tinubu May Cut a Deal with Trump скачать в хорошем качестве

As Biafran Lobbyists Intensify Pressure, Tinubu May Cut a Deal with Trump

Renowned historian Professor Toyin Falola, University Distinguished Teaching Professor and holder of the Frances and Jacob Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at The University of Texas at Austin, offers a sweeping historical and political reading of Donald Trump’s Christmas Day bombing of Sokoto and what it signals for Nigeria–U.S. relations. Falola situates the strike within a broader pattern of American power projection, arguing that Trump’s interest is ultimately transactional: access to strategic resources in exchange for political backing. In this reading, Nigeria becomes a bargaining space where President Bola Tinubu may find alignment with U.S. interests useful for regime stability at home. The conversation also turns to the internationalisation of Nigeria’s internal questions. Falola reveals how Biafran lobbyists are intensifying pressure on Trump, framing Igbo political aspirations within U.S. policy debates and diaspora politics. This external lobbying, he suggests, adds another layer of complexity to Nigeria’s sovereignty, ethnic politics, and foreign relations.