There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

National Council of Nigerian Citizens (NCNC), 45–46

National Guidance Committee (Biafra), Ahiara Declaration, 144–49

National Reconciliation Commission (NRC), 88

Ndem, Eyo Bassey, 145

Ndu, Pol, 116

Négritude, 163–64

Neogy, Rajat, 105

Nigeria

Aburi Accord (1967), 85–87

Anambra state destabilization, 248–49

area boys/rent-a-crowd, 69, 248

Biafra secession from. See Biafra secession; Republic of Biafra

-Biafra War. See Nigeria-Biafra war

British governor general (James Robertson), 49–51

British interests after independence, 49–52, 124

competition with Ghana, 41

corruption

election-related, 245–46

first election, rigging by British, 50, 51–52

godfatherism, 245

national funds, theft of, 249–50

perpetuation, reasons for, 249–52

post-independence period, 51–52

countercoup of 1966, 80–82

coup of 1966, 63–72, 78–80

Decree 8 (1967), 86–87

Decree No. 34 (1966), 80–81

democracy negated in, 245–48

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

Eastern region succession. See Biafra secession