There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

Kwale incident, 218–20

Kwashiorkor, 195, 210, 226

Labyrinths (Okigbo), 115

Lagos, 63

and coup of 1966, 67–68, 70–71

Lambo, Dr. T. A., 111

“Lament of the Deer,” 177

Larson, Charles, 38

Lasekan, Akinola, 43

Laurence, Jean Margaret, 38

Laye, Camara, 53

Leapman, Michael, 99

Legum, Colin, 82

Lennon, John, 139

Leventhal, Robert S., 229

Lincoln University (United States), 42

Lindfors, Bernth, 38

Lindt, Dr. August, 101

Lion and the Jewel, The (Soyinka), 109

Luce, Henry, 121

Lumumba, Patrice, 146, 163

Macauley, Herbert, 44

MacDonald, David, 231–32

McRae, Donald, 38

Madiebo, Alexander, 120–21

Mailer, Norman, 110

Malinke people, 53

Mandela, Nelson, 113, 163, 258

“Mango Seedling,” 186–87

Man of the People, A, 52, 63, 67, 161