The Biafran postage stamps in the Nigerian civil war years present a trove of iconic imageries constructed by the urgency to play a role in the international politics of image production, meaning construction and consumption. These images amplified the campaign for self-determination and created a sense of nationalism for the seceding nation. The iconographic analysis is used to examine select stamps, considered as transmitters of collective vagaries of national aspirations. Within this focus, historical and nationalistic narratives peculiar to the Nigerian/Biafran experience form a unique basis for the discourse and interpretation of nationalism set within the perspective of interchanging symbolisms and identity within the Nigerian state. The purpose here is to explain the iconic content and textual messages of the stamps or sets of stamps issued by the defunct Republic of Biafra and the ideology of identity and self-determination that it has activated among the different ethnicities in the Nigerian nation-state.

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比夫拉邮票（1967-1970）和主权承诺的修辞

尼日利亚内战时期的 Biafran 邮票展示了一系列标志性图像，这些图像是由在图像生产、意义构建和消费的国际政治中发挥作用的紧迫性构建的。这些图像放大了自决运动，并为分离国家创造了民族主义感。图像分析用于检查选定的邮票，这些邮票被认为是民族愿望的集体变幻莫测的传播者。在这个焦点内，尼日利亚/比夫拉体验特有的历史和民族主义叙事形成了在尼日利亚国家内部交换象征意义和身份的角度下对民族主义的话语和解释的独特基础。