Ricardo opens up this episode with an old interview clip from Chinua Achebe before calling up his friend, Nnamdi, to discuss the Biafran War (5:15). Nnamdi covers the origins of the war from the military coup, to the pogroms against Igbo families in Northern Nigeria to the motivations for self determination. Ricardo wonders if accepted theories of nation building are applicable to the African context (21:50) and wonders why there were no medals given in the war (35:40), what Biafra represents today (40:12) and whether we will see a woman president in America before an Igbo president in Nigeria (52:06) before ending with another clip from Chinua Achebe (56:24).