There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra - Page 89

Obote, Milton, 167

O’Brien, Conor Cruise, 106, 107–8

Obumselu, Ben, 27, 145

Ogan, Dr. Okoronkwo, 65

Ogbanje (one who is reborn), 116

Ogbunigwe bomb, 156–57

Ogede, Ode, 55

Ogunde, Hubert, 52

Ogunewe, David, 227

Ohamiri (goddess), 192

Oilmen, capture of, 218–20

Oil production

and division of Eastern states, 91–92

foreign interests and Biafrian conflict, 99–100, 102

Nigerian half ownership, 235

Ojukwu, General Chukwuemeka (Emeka) Odumegwu, 80–81, 118–20

and Ahiara Declaration, 143–45, 148–49

background of, 118–20, 159

and Biafran Organization of Freedom Fighters (BOFF), 159–60

British aid, refusal of, 126

critics of, 125–26, 222

flight to Ivory Coast, 98, 223–24

food relief, caution about, 211

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

and Nigeria-Biafra war, 124–26, 128–32, 135, 210–11, 213, 219–20

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

and secession of Biafra, 91–92, 128

Ojukwu, Sir Louis Odumegwu, 43, 80, 118

Okam, Hilary, 167

Okara, Gabriel, 25, 109, 114, 167

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