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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 […]
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 […]
My name is Donatus Nsionu. Dem born me 1933 for Awkuzu here [a town in Anambra State]. You no sey the time wey dem born us, everywhere neva open like […]
My name is Mrs. Alexinia Oforchebe. [I was born in] 1939 in this Awkuzu [a town in Anambra State, Nigeria]. I was married then [when the war started]. I had […]
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 […]
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 […]
My name is Monica Ubianuju Nwannakwe. 1957 [ I was born], in Awkuzu [in Anambra State, Nigeria]. [I was with my mother when the war started]. I am the only […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
My name is Ali Yahaya. I was born 1950, January eighth, 1950. [In] Enugu. Egweti Barrack. My father was a soldier. [In] 1966 [when the coup and the killings happened], I was […]
My name is Roselyn Ukerele. I was born in Amizi, Umuahia in 1944. August. When the war started I was in Amizi, Umuahia with my mother and my two brethen, […]
My name is Evangelist Musa Paul-Gindiri. I was born here in the city of Jos in 1962 and I have always been here except for the few times I […]
My name is Medina Dauda. I was born on the twenty fifth of October, 1958 in Kaduna, precisely in Unguwan Shanu of Kaduna north and I started my- would I […]
I am Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence O. Akpu. I am one of the disabled veterans of Biafra, quartered at Okigwe in Imo state. 1966, I was at Lafia [in present day […]
I was born in Nigeria in Port Harcourt, Rivers State now in 1947. The eighth of April. [My name is] Christiana Ofiaeli. When the war started, I was in England. […]
My name is His Royal Highness Igwe Christopher Chukwumeka Ejiofor. I am the traditional ruler of Oyofo Kingdom in Ezeagu Local Government Area in Enugu State. My title is Ezekwesili […]
My name is Hamsatu Allamin. In fact, I was born in 1958 in Nguru. Then, my father was a civil servant working there. Nguru is in Yobe state bordering […]
My name is Laura Nwando Onwualu. I was born 1954 in northern Nigeria, Plateau State, Kura Falls. I don’t remember much about the Nigerian-Biafran War but I remember then I […]
My name is Theresa Nwakaego Nsionu. I was born in 1941. What I remember is that war was so severe. People suffer it well. Well, we were in Jos, […]
My name is Gideon Njoku. I was born 1951. I entered the war as a Biafra soldier in 1968. I got an injury in 1969, August 12. I volunteered to […]
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 […]