There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

Okeke, Simon, 150

Okezie, J. O. J., 26

Okigbo, Bede, 23, 26

Okigbo, Christopher, 23, 25, 28, 56, 79, 107, 112, 248

background of, 114–15

in Biafran military, 117

Chinua’s friendship with, 114, 116, 180–81

Chinua’s last encounter with, 182–83

and Citadel Press, 176–79

death of, 184–85

personality traits of, 115–16, 116

support of Biafra, 116–17

work of, 115

Okigbo, Pius, 23, 114, 117, 248

Okoli, Christie. See Achebe, Christie Okoli (wife)

Okoli, Elizabeth, 188

Okoli, Samuel, 69

Okoli, Timothy Chukwukadibia, 31–33

Okongwu, Chu, 26

Okongwu, Jonathan Obimdike, 15–18

Okongwu, Sonny Chu, 17

Okonkwo, Major Albert Nwazu, 131

Okoye, Major, 159

Okpara, Dr. Michael I., 91, 119

“Old Order in Conflict with the New, The,” 33

Onabanjo, Bisi, 37

Onenyi, Okudo, 146–47

Onosode, Gamaliel, 27

Oral tradition. See Igbo traditions; Storytelling

Organization of African Unity (OAU), 96–99, 136–37