There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

Government College (Umuahia), 17, 19–28

African graduates of note, 25–26

Gowon, Lieutenant Colonel Yakubu, 85–88, 120–24

background of, 120–23

and genocide, 233–34

on Igbo situation post-war, 236–39

and Nigeria-Biafra war, 128, 132–33, 134–35, 209–11, 212, 223–24, 227

Ojukwu, relationship with, 122–24, 224–25

Organization of African Unity (OAU) meeting with, 96–98

Great Britain. See also British colonial rule

Nigeria-Biafra war, response to, 99–101, 154, 213–14, 229, 232

Wilson, pro-Nigerian position of, 99–101, 105, 106, 213–14, 229, 232

Griffiths, Gareth, 38

Griots. See Storytelling

Haiti, support of Biafra, 99

Hammarskjöld, Dag, 154, 211

Harrison, Kelsey, 26, 27

Haruna, Ibrahim, 133, 135, 138

Hausa/Fulani people, 47, 82

Islamic, 122

Head, Bessie, 113

Heathens, 11

Heavens Gate (Okigbo), 115

Heinemann, 38, 63

Hendrix, Jimi, 139

Hill, Alan, 38, 112

Hill, Geoffrey, 106

Houphouët-Boigny, Felix, 98, 223

How the Leopard Got His Claws, 9, 177, 185

Hughes, Langston, 67, 164