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ABOUT THIS SITE n the book, the author gives a stunningly lucid account of the suffering that Biafran civilians endured during the Nigeria-Biafra war in which two million people died. He takes the reader on a riveting journey through his childhood days in Nigeria during the war and traces events from the time his family was forced to flee from Lagos, in 1966 to escape hostilities, to the day in 1970, when the last shots were fired. The book chronicles several family tragedies resulting from the war and recalls deadly and nerve-racking air raids on Biafran civilian targets. It highlights the tragic deaths of children from malnutrition and talks about the attempted subjugation of Biafrans after the war. Accounts of the resilience of the Biafran people, which ultimately led to their survival, are not left out.
The Nigerian civil war was orchestrated by a wave of killings of thousands of easterners living and working in the northern part of Nigeria in 1966. The killings convinced the easterners (Biafrans) that their safety in Nigeria could no longer be guaranteed. In May 1967, with the mandate of the eastern house of assembly, the then governor of eastern Nigeria, Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, declared that the eastern region had seceded from Nigeria and had become a sovereign nation called Biafra. Refusing to accept the sovereignty of Biafra, the Nigerian government, under the leadership of Colonel Yakubu Gowon, mobilized thousands of Nigerian army troops and commenced a thirty month siege on Biafra in which two-million died.
CROSS SECTION OF GUESTS DURING THE BOOK SIGNING OF SURVIVING IN BIAFRA web design - Alfred Obiora Uzokwe - 2002 to 2006 (all rights reserved) |
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