There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

Africans in military, 44

beginning of, 1–2

exports/revenues from Africa, 44, 47

independent Nigeria, indirect rule, 49–52, 124

Indian independence, 40, 48

Brutality of Nations, The (Jacobs), 230

Bureau of External Publicity, 109

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Burning Grass (Ekwensi), 109

Cadle, E. A., 28, 114–15

Calabar kingdom, 2

Calabar Massacre, 137–40

Cambridge School Certificate exam, 26

Canada

on Biafran genocide, 231–32

Chinua as Biafran envoy to, 165–66, 222

Canadian Council of Churches, 166

Caritas International, 166, 194

Cawson, Frank, 68

Central School (Nekede), 17–18

Césaire, Aimé, 163, 164

Chike and the River, 9

China, Nigeria-Biafra war, response to, 105, 107

Christianity

in Chinua’s family background, 7–8, 10–14

missionary schools, 20

Christiansen, Per, 185

Chukwuemeka, Vincent, 112

Churchill, Winston, 247

Church Mission Society, 19–20, 75–76