There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

Igbo traditions

art and creation, approach to, 59

and Chinua as writer, 39, 55

Chinua’s early exposure to, 8–10, 12–13, 18–19

democratic ideals, 246

mbari (art as celebration), 18–19, 56

Nnokwa (village) in, 192

Ihetu, Richard (Dick Tiger), 158–59

Ijaw people, 47, 150

Ike, Vincent Chukwuemeka, 25, 28, 156

Ikejiani, Dr. Okechukwu, 67, 69, 99, 119, 216

Ikoku, Dr. Alvan, 91

Ikom people, 150

Ikwerre people, 150

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), 247

Indigenization Decree (1974), 234, 236–37

Innes, Catherine Lynnette, 38

Intellectual community

of African writers. See African literature

Nigeria-Biafra war, response to, 105–14, 157–58, 176–77

and Republic of Biafra founding, 105–14

> as warriors of peace, 109

Interethnic tensions (Nigeria), 74–78. See also Nigeria-Biafra war

ekwolo (rivalries), 123

pre-independence era, 46–47

International Red Cross, humanitarian aid blocked, 101, 230

Interpreters, The (Soyinka), 109

Inyang, Ekpo Etien, 24, 26

Irele, Abiola, 28

Iroaganachi, John, 177