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 […]
Tag Archives: Jos
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 […]
The Igbos were being killed
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 […]
The war delayed our marriage
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] […]
It was a very slow death
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] […]
They had opened her stomach, taken the baby
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. […]
My father…they butchered him
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 […]
People were eating rats
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, […]
Biafran War Memories 