There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

Trouble with Nigeria, The, 74, 249

Tutuola, Amos, 53, 57, 113

Tyler, Priscilla, 38

Uchendu, Major Jonathan, 173

Udoji, Jerome, 91

Uganda, Chinua as Biafran envoy to, 166–67

Ugoh, Dr. Sylvester, 150

Ukwu, Dr. Ukwu I., 159

Uli airport, 154–55

Ume-Ezeoke, Philip, 70

Umuahia (Biafra), 149

United Nations, neglect, and Nigeria-Biafra war, 211–13

United States

Chinua as Biafran envoy to, 167

Nigeria-Biafra war, response to, 102–4, 139–40, 210–11, 221–22, 231

University College (Ibadan), 26–29, 33–35

University Herald, 33

University of Biafra, 111

Urhobo people, 47

Uwechue, Raph, 125

Uyanga people, 150

Uzochukwu, Benjamin, 24

Visser’t Hooft, Willem, 166

Vonnegut, Kurt, 105–6

Von Rosen, Carl Gustaf, 154–55, 165

“Vultures,” 204–5

Wachukwu, Jaja, 26

Walcott, Derek, 164

Warrant chiefs, 2

Washington, Booker T., 163