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From nowhere, we heard the sound of death

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Okie dokie. My name is Charles Chukwuemeka Oputa, otherwise known as Charly Boy. I was born in a little town in Imo State called Oguta. It’s called the Blue Lake […]

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The war delayed our marriage

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I am Mrs. Joy Onubogu. I am from Ogidi in Anambra State. I was born in 1944. I am 73 years old. I live in Jos [in Plateau State, Nigeria] […]

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It Was A Very Slow Death

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My name is Okey Eweani. I am from Enugu-Agidi in Anambra State, Nigeria. I was born in Jos, Plateau State in 1958. What comes to my mind [about the war] […]

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They had opened her stomach, taken the baby

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Okay, I’m Enuma Okoro. I was born in 1946 and I experienced the war for a short period of time in Enugu before I left for the states in 1968. […]

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Every young man was eager to fight

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My names are Engr. Mark Chijioke Uchendu. I am from Ihitte Uboma in Imo State of Nigeria. I am born in the same Local Government, born in Okigwe town. 1960. […]

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The bombs, they shook the ground

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My name. Louis Odiha. I’m 57-years-old. I’m from Eke, in the local government area of Enugu state. I should be, I think ten. 10 years old then [when the war broke […]

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Biafran War Memories is an archive of first-hand accounts of the 1967-1970 Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War. The personal stories of people who remember the war and some who even lived through it are here.

The July 17, 1968 cover of LIFE Magazine featured the images of malnourished Biafran children

I remember there was a day when we went out behind the classes, the compound, we saw one Igbo guy, killed. Why, because when they learned that they were killing different tribes and so on, that’s why the Maiduguri people, women they will get into their houses, killing them too

The Biafran Airlift Mission

The Biafran airlift was a humanitarian intervention organized by private groups from 1967-1970, bringing food, medicine, and other supplies into Biafra during its bloody separatist conflict with Nigeria.

Civilians fleeing Aba to go to Umuahia in southeastern Nigerian on August 28, 1968 as the Nigerian federal troops advance toward the city during the Biafran War. AFP PHOTO / Francois Mazure

I heard that people were eating human meat. But I didn’t see with my eyes oh! Because there was no food. We were eating so many funny things. People suffer. All these lizard, all those things are meat then. And rats. People were eating rats

I don’t know what they used to shoot me but the bullet wounded me at my right knee

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John Lennon is seen here with his wife Yoko Ono on the 25 November 1969 during a press conference held after he returned his MBE to the Queen in protest of Britain's involvement in the Nigerian-Biafra War.

Critically acclaimed Nigerian author, Chimamanda Adichie pens a poignant essay on why we must confront the painful history of the Biafran War.

The origins of the world renown humanitarian organization is rooted in the Nigerian-Biafran War

New York Times reporter Lloyd Garrison at a military checkpoint in Biafra during the 1960's

We saw several skeletons of dead people. Skeletons, when we came back after the end of the war. We buried the skeletons. We buried them. My father's compound was flattened. It was a battlefield. It was a war front

I used to walk around with a little white button with black letters that said “Free Biafra”

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