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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
You know what they do to that boy?
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. […]
We heard the sound of death
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 […]
They allowed children to be decimated
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 […]
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] […]
Every young man was eager to fight
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. […]
The Igbos were molesting us
My name is Bala Mohammed. I was born here in Kaduna, 1947 on the ninth of May. I attended my elementary here in Kaduna. Later in the year 1967, […]
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, […]
We buried the skeletons
I am Obum Okeke from Anambra state. I was born in 1960. The Biafran war. I was about six getting to seven, there about. I was in a primary school […]
Biafran War Memories 