There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

Abagana ambush, 173–74

Asabe Massacre, 133–35

Azikiwe withdraws support for Biafra, 215–17

Banjo broadcast to Mid-West (1967), 259–65

Biafran military and armaments, 153–60

Biafran towns, attacks on, 132–33

Biafra s

urrender, 226–27

Calabar Massacre, 137–40

casualties of, 227

children, impact on, 195, 199, 210, 213, 226

and Chinua

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

Citadel Press, 176–79, 185

as envoy to Biafran people, 160–62, 164–67, 180

home in Enugu bombed, 181–83

as refugee, 188–94

residences during war, 170–73, 179–80, 188–94, 200–201

diseases during, 195, 210, 226

economic blockade of Biafra, 104, 154, 156, 199–200, 209–11, 229

Geneva Convention, disregard for, 212, 235

genocide issue, 228–39

and Gowon, 128, 132–33, 134–35, 209–11, 212, 223–24

hospitals, makeshift, 194–95

humanitarian emergency, 169–71, 189, 194–95, 199–200, 209–11

information blockade of present, 228

intellectuals/writers’ response to, 105–14, 157–58, 176–77

international demonstrations against, 139–40

international response to, 99–105, 154–55, 210–11, 219–22

Kwale incident, 218–20