Former military president Ibrahim Babangida recounted a courageous moment from the Biafra War in his autobiography, A Journey in Service He described how he saved his wounded friend, Captain Garba ...

THE BRUTAL civil war in Nigeria is slowly dragging to a close. Little remains of the secessionist Eastern Region--Biafra. In just a few months, probably, all rebel territory will belong to the ...

Imagine achieving something so groundbreaking that the world catches up 56 years later, yet your name is barely mentioned.

[Isaiah Gwengi,Standard] Aggrey Ondiek, now in his 70s, is one of the civilians who witnessed the Biafra war – a civil war in West Africa, which began in July 1967 and ended on January 15 ...

Adichie is eager to interrogate the legacy of the Nigerian-Biafran war and the long process of making her characters feel real. Adichie joins Jenni Murray in March 2004 on the week her book was ...

When civil war broke out in Nigeria in the mid-1960s, the resulting images of starving children provoked horror and sympathy around the world. The plight of the Biafran refugees moved the British ...

The landmark self-referendum on Biafran self-determination, which concluded with over 50 million affirmative votes, culminated in the formal reading of the Declaration of Independence by Dr.