THE NIGERIAN BIAFRA WAR PART 25: How Biafra refugees were treated Enugu fell to the Nigerian army a few months after Christopher fell in battle. I fled to Umuahia with my family to stay with my sister-in-law, Elizabeth Okoli, who had moved there from Aba. Lizzy was a nurse working in Umuahia-area hospitals tending to […]
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THE NIGERIA BIAFRA WAR PART 24: Staying Alive While I worked at the Citadel Press, Christie, with her characteristic ingenuity and flair for design, created a home for us in this new city. When we arrived in Enugu we quickly found accommodation on the outskirts of town. It was an apartment complex with two subunits. […]
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NIGERIA BIAFRA WAR PART 23: How the Biafra Soldiers Ambushed Muritala Muhammad’s battalion of Nigeria Soldiers On the 25th of March 1968, the second division of the Nigerian army finally broke through the Biafran resistance and entered Onitsha..(the federal troops had failed ghettos first attempts to cross the Niger, suffering great casualties at the hands […]
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NIGERIA BIAFRA WAR PART 22: What life looks like in the republic of Biafra The Nigeria Biafra conflict vested a humanitarian emergency of epic proportions, millions of people (Civilians and soldiers) were flooding the main highway arteries between towns and villages fleeing the chaos. Many traveled by foot, by truck, by car, barefoot with slippers […]
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BIAFRA WAR PART 21: This Was How Many Biafran Soldiers are When They Defeated The Nigerian soldiers in the first session of the war Biafra had only two thousand troops at the beginning of the war. Most of the soldiers were former Nigerian army soldiers—Easterners who were based in Enugu and other former Nigerian military […]
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How the Igbos Made the Ogbunigwe Local Bombs they used to defeat Nigeria Army in the Biafra War OGBUNIGWE The economic blockade enforced by Gowon led to great ingenuity and some unprecedented innovations. Biafran scientists from the research think tank RAP —the Biafran Research and Production unit—developed a great number of rockets, bombs, and telecommunications […]
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Biafra War Part 17: Top 17 Things You Didn’t Know the Republic of Biafra and Its Political Structure 1. The Republic of Biafra took its name from the Bight of Biafra, the vast expanse of water covering the continental shelf into which the Niger River empties before flowing into the Gulf of Biafra. 2. After […]
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Biafra War Part 19 : Listen to The Biafra National Anthem The Nigeria-Biafra War led to an explosion of musical, lyrical, and poetic creativity and artistry. The Biafra National Anthem was based on a Poem written by Nnamdi Azikiwe and the tune was adopted from Jean Sibelius’ “Finlandia”. and was written as follows The Biafra […]
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BIAFRA WAR PART 18: Things you don’t know about the Biafra Money notes/Legal tender Once secession was declared it became clear that the war effort required a great deal of military equipment—artillery, planes, boats, tanks, guns, grenades, mines, bombs, etc. Biafra needed the means to access foreign exchange and a legal tender for commerce. One […]
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How the Nigerian Army recaptured Umuahia from Biafran Soldiers After Mohammed Shuwa’s First Division has overran Abakaliki and Afikpo. Umuahia became the only major Urban area in the possession of Biafrans that the Nigerian Soldiers are yet to overtake. Gowon Rapidly increased the size of his army to well over 250,000 men and women. This […]
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