Hide inside trees and bananas
Okay. I am Chief Christopher Ayogu. Knight of Saint Paul, KSP. I was born December 24, 1947, in this Okpuje [in present-day Enugu State]. This Okpuje Ani village, in Okpuje […]
Tag Archives: 1966 coup
The ordinary man in the east saw hell
We had a terrible civil war [in Nigeria] and purely built on mundane things like ‘oh, you are an Igbo man. You should not have this,’ or ‘you are a […]
Judgment is left to be done by God
Eh, Sergeant Garba. No, put Mada instead. Yeah, because no one really knows me by the other name [Garba]. I was born in Zamfara state. I am seventy eight years […]
Give us gun, we are all angry
I am called Dr., my surname, Nwakire. My first name, Onuzuruike. My father’s, Nwagwu. I was born fifth of November 1950. I studied at Government College, Umuahia. I was […]
I was a student-turned-soldier overnight
My name is Nnamdi Onwualu. I was born in 1952…1952. December 1952. I was born in the northern part of Nigeria in a town they call Bakori. It’s in Katsina […]
Death was around the corner
What comes to mind is sheer terror, the constant and incessant appearance of military jets, Nigerian military jets that would just show up with little notice and at all hours […]
We leave everything and run
My name is Patrick Obute. I was born when just a few individuals went to school. When I started working for the government, my name was written as David. I […]
They planned to destroy us
My name is Hajiya Hauwa Muhammad. I should be almost 50, 60 [years old]. [I don’t know the year I was born]. You know this age thing and how complex […]
The beginning of the catastrophe
My name is Nduka Agbim, a resident of Georgia in the US. I was born 1951, December twenty-first. So the war is called Nigeria Biafra War of 1967 to 1970. Of […]
They were forced to dig their grave
Okay, my name is Christian Enechukwu. I was born in Ishiagu, Ivo local government, Ebonyi state, on the fifteenth of March, 1955. I’m 63 now. I schooled at St. Anthony’s Primary […]
It was headed for a terrible tragedy
Well, my name is Dr. Herbert Ausubel. I am an American trained at Harvard Medical School. I trained in history before I entered Harvard Medical School and in fact I […]
Biafran War Memories 