Republic of Biafra: Once Upon a Time in Nigeria

Republic of Biafra: Once Upon a Time in Nigeria

Author: Onyema G. Nkwocha

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 1452068674

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Not quite four months after the Western Region's election of October 10, 1965, did the localized mayhem in that Region find its way furiously into the center of the nation on January 15, 1966! It was like a whirl-wind of nothing but anarchy and lawlessness. The serious aftermath of the marred and rigged election was that it acted as the last straw that broke the Carmel's back, providing immediate reason for the army to overthrow the government of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe. Anarchy ensued; a counter coup led to the death of Major-General Ironsi. Callous barbarous massacre of thousands of easterners in the North followed. With their lives in jeopardy, easterners fled for safety to eastern region; refugee crisis followed. To guarantee their safety, easterners seceded from Nigeria and on May 30th 1967, formed an independent and sovereign nation of the Republic of Biafra. Determined to bring Easterners back, on July 6, 1967 Nigeria invaded Biafra; waged a gruesome thirty-month-civil war against Biafra. Nigeria blockaded Biafra on land, sea and air, to prevent food from entering Biafra. A malnutrition disease, Kwashiorkor that caused the deaths of thousands of Biafrans, followed. Nigeria bombed Biafran civilians, killing thousands. On January 12, 1970 the war ended leaving more than three million people dead in a war that was totally avoidable!


Once Upon a Time in Biafra

Once Upon a Time in Biafra

Author: Stephen Udoka Okeke

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-01-19

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9781542629188

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long time ago, following a certain old African map; in the early days of British conquest; in a small lowly region quite close to the old bite of Biafra, there he lay wounded. And the wind took upon it's wit, angry dust was resurrected. The man became vile, monstrous, grunting like a wild pig. And so it came to existence. While diverse fruit poisoning reigned by day, a wild devouring beast ruled by night. The good land once known with peace, became the home of terror; people died in their numbers. Even trees once grew carnivorous teeth to taste human flesh. After all said were done. When the gods on a very long run was discovered to have failed. What next? In this outstanding African surrogate, discover the hidden monster and the thing that so great formed it.


Surviving in Biafra

Surviving in Biafra

Author: Alfred Obiora Uzokwe

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0595263666

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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 her sovereignty, Nigeria waged a thirty-month war against Biafra, targeting air assaults at civilian locations, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of children, women, and the elderly. Nigeria used land and sea blockade to prevent relief food from reaching hungry masses in Biafra and thousands of children died from a form of malnutrition called kwashiorkor. At the end of it all in 1970, two million people had perished.


Battle of Biafra

Battle of Biafra

Author: Onianwa Oluchukwu Ignatus

Publisher:

Published: 2021-11

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9781680532616

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In this intriguing new book, Onianwa Oluchukwu Ignatus examines the role of British intelligence in the Nigerian Civil War. British intelligence operations were highly successful due to a decentralized approach. Britain maintained regular supplies of arms to Nigeria despite considerable opposition at home. Thus, up-to-date information was necessary to determine the military behavior of both sides and the practicalities of arms supply for Nigeria. The influx of external forces into the civil war and increased military supplies from the Soviet Union and France also influenced British intelligence assessments. The book's central argument or, rather, its historical lesson, is that intelligence operations must have a goal and must allow for wider analysis, maximum objectivity, and a diversity of opinion.


Blood of the Sun

Blood of the Sun

Author: Richard Izuchukwu Oragwuncha

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-04-05

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781545008799

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Okechukwu traveled with his uncle Don Max, a notorious drug baron, from Eziowelle to Rome. In Rome, Okechukwu was introduced into the drug business. Nemesis befell Don Max as the son of his boss whom he (Don Max) murdered located his where about through a friend who introduced Don Max's fiancee to the young man (Charles). This event lead to the death of Don Max and left Okechukwu stranded. Okechukwu who finally was deported from Rome found him self stranded in Lagos as a result of this, joined a truck that headed north and ended up in Kano; during the period of Nzeogwu's coup reprisal that caused the death of over 30,000 easterners especially the highly populated Igbos. After witnessing the gruesome massacre and he managed to escape alive, it took him a terrible pace of horror to had survived, walking down from the north to the east. Beholding the destructions already made on arriving the east and his raped fiancee with the child of an enemy in her womb, was the beginning of his journey into the Biafran Army. He returned to war a blood drunk . Until now The magnitude of tribalism and religious intolerance in Nigeria has increasingly caused a continuous and unnecessary killings of Nigerians across the country. Since after the civil war, the southerners and Nigerians at large have repeatedly been massacred for no significant reason(s) which is obviously affecting the peace and unity of Nigeria as an entity.


Half of a Yellow Sun

Half of a Yellow Sun

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Published: 2010-10-29

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 0307373541

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With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the “21st century daughter” of Chinua Achebe. Now, in her masterly, haunting new novel, she recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria during the 1960s. With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Adichie weaves together the lives of five characters caught up in the extraordinary tumult of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Ugwu is houseboy to Odenigbo, a university professor who sends him to school, and in whose living room Ugwu hears voices full of revolutionary zeal. Odenigbo’s beautiful mistress, Olanna, a sociology teacher, is running away from her parents’ world of wealth and excess; Kainene, her urbane twin, is taking over their father’s business; and Kainene’s English lover, Richard, forms a bridge between their two worlds. As we follow these intertwined lives through a military coup, the Biafran secession and the subsequent war, Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise, and intimately, the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place. Epic, ambitious and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a more powerful, dramatic and intensely emotional picture of modern Africa than any we have had before.


Under the Udala Trees

Under the Udala Trees

Author: Chinelo Okparanta

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 0544003446

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Inspired by her mother's stories of war and Nigeria's folktale traditions, Under the Udala Trees is Chinelo Okparanta's deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly