There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

Humanitarian effort

aid blocked, 101, 230

for Biafra, 154–55, 164–66, 169–71

Hunt, Sir David, 120

Hüssler, Father Georg, 166

Huxley, Julian, 26

Ibeno people, 150

Ibiam, Sir Francis, 91

Ibibio people, 47, 137, 150, 192

Ifeajuna, Emmanuel, 135, 178–79

Ifejike, Samuel, 185

Ife kingdom, 1–2

Ifekwunigwe, Dr. Aaron, 195

Ifemesia, Chieka, 145, 147

Igbo people

Asabe Massacre, 133–35

attacks upon after coup of 1966, 66–67, 69, 76–78, 80–82

in Biafra population, 150

Calabar Massacre, 137–40

educational attainment of, 75–76, 77

extermination attempts against. See Genocide

flaws of, 76

Georgia (U.S.) landing of, 167

Gowon interview on, 236–39

Igbo Town Union, 75

leadership positions in Nigeria, 66–67, 71, 74–78, 88

Nigerian jihad against, 229–30

personality traits of, 74, 75

pogroms, 67, 82–83, 92, 95, 123

post-war economic restrictions on, 234–39