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Just Published...available at www.Barnes & Noble.com or www.Amazon.com. United Kingdom readers click www.Amazon.co.uk. For more information call toll-free 1-877-823-9235 Surviving in Biafra |
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In 1966, several waves of rioting in Northern Nigeria culminated in the brutal massacre of thousands of Easterners by their Northern Nigerian counterparts. Sensing that their safety could no longer be guaranteed, the Easterners fled to the Eastern region and established an independent nation called Biafra. Refusing to accept the sovereignty of the new nation, Nigeria waged a thirty-month war against Biafra in which two million died. Surviving in Biafra, is a stunningly lucid account of the agony that Biafran civilians suffered during the war from 1967 to 1970. Alfred Obiora Uzokwe takes the reader on a riveting journey from the time in 1966, when his family was forced to flee from Lagos Nigeria back to their native town in Biafra, as a result of the massacre of thousands of his kinsmen in northern Nigeria, to the day when the last shots were fired. He vividly describes the day in 1970, after the collapse of Biafra, when Nigerian soldiers drove into his hometown and began a military occupation that lasted for many years with attendant abuse of civil liberties. Surviving in Biafra chronicles several family tragedies suffered by his family during the war and recalls how air raids and hunger (kwashiorkor) resulted in the deaths of thousands of Biafran children, women and the elderly. "The reader can feel the author’s passion and pain"- Publisher Editorial Review "Never leaves the reader wondering what is going on at any given time."- Publisher Editorial Review |
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Available at : www.Barnes and Noble.com or www.Amazon.com for check or money order purchase call toll-free 1-877-823-9235 ISBN: Paperback: 0-595-26366-6 Website: www.survivinginbiafra.com Email: survivinginbiafra@netzero.net About the author: Alfred Obiora Uzokwe has authored hundreds of essays about Nigeria's socio-political and economic situation, which were published on the internet news magazine Nigeriaworld.com and other publications. He holds advanced degrees in architecture and civil engineering. He lived in Biafra throughout the 30-month war and so his story about the war is an eye witness account. He is a registered professional engineer and has served as editor of several technical journals as well as act as a contributory writer. |
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