There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

Democracy

Igbo ideal of, 246

lack of in Nigeria, 245–48

Dennis Memorial Grammar School (Onitsha), 19–20

Diamond, Stanley, 106–7

Dibia (medicine man), 31–32

Dick Tiger. See Ihetu, Richard (Dick Tiger)

Dictatorships, 247

Dike, Kenneth Onwuke, 77, 110–12, 248

Diori, Hamani, 96–97

Drum: A Children’s Story, The, 9

Drummer Boy, The (Ekwensi), 109

Du Bois, W. E. B., 163

Duvalier, François, 99

Eastern Nigeria

Eastern group, 51, 66, 70, 82. See also Igbo people

flight to and Coup of 1966, 83, 91–92, 95, 97

secession. See Biafra secession; Nigeria-Biafra war; Republic of Biafra

Ebo Landing, 167

Echeruo, Joseph, 91

Echeruo, M. J. C., 28

Ecumenical Church Loan Fund, 166

Effiong, General Philip, 153, 225–26

Efik people, 47, 137, 150, 192

Efuru (Nwapa), 112

Egbema people, 150

Egbe Omo Oduduwa, 45

Egbuonu, Dr. Francis, 16, 21

Ejagham people, 192

Ejoor, David, 129, 131