THERE WAS A COUNTRY: A Personal History of Biafra, by Chinua Achebe.
Comment on the plight of the starving children of Biafra and an appeal for help.
Shortly thereafter, federal troops entered Enugu, the provisional capital of Biafra, and penetrated the Igbo heartland.
There was some discussion of the avoidance of the subject of Biafra in Nigeria.
"It was something we needed while the actualisation of Biafra seemed attainable.
Within the Bight of Biafra are several islands, the largest of which is Bioko, belonging to Equatorial Guinea.
It is bordered on the east by the Cameroon republic and fronts the Bight of Biafra on the south.
The heartbreak of Biafra shook the foundations of Nigerian society and led to decades of political turmoil.
"I wrote a play, a very poor play, when I was 16, which was called For Love of Biafra".
Bioko, by far the largest of the islands, lies off the coast of Cameroon in the Bight of Biafra.
Led by the charismatic Oxford-educated, Shakespeare-loving Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu, the fledgling nation called itself the Republic of Biafra.
