Introduction -- Historical background -- The path to war and its beginning -- The second part of the war : from mid-1968 to January 1970 -- Biafra's longevity -- Gowon and Ojukwu : an appraisal of the ...
The former military leader, who governed Nigeria from 1966 to 1975, described the civil war — which lasted from July 6, 1967, to January 15, 1970 — as the most challenging chapter of his life. Former ...
"Like the Jews of Harlem or the Asians of East Africa or the Chinese of Southeast Asia, the Ibos were the prominent outsiders in the economic life of the dominant population and, like the others, they ...