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There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
Chinua Achebe
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COVER
ALSO BY CHINUA ACHEBE
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT
CONTENTS
MAPS
INTRODUCTION
PART 1
Pioneers of a New Frontier
The Magical Years
A Primary Exposure
Leaving Home
The Formative Years at Umuahia and Ibadan
THE UMUAHIA EXPERIENCE
THE IBADAN EXPERIENCE
Meeting Christie and Her Family
Discovering Things Fall Apart
A Lucky Generation
The March to Independence
The Cradle of Nigerian Nationalism
Post-Independence Nigeria
The Decline
The Role of the Writer in Africa
1966
January 15, 1966, Coup
The Dark Days
BENIN ROAD
A History of Ethnic Tension and Resentment
The Army
Countercoup and Assassination
The Pogroms
PENALTY OF GODHEAD
The Aburi Accord
GENERATION GAP
The Nightmare Begins
PART 2
The Nigeria-Biafra War
THE BIAFRAN POSITION
THE NIGERIAN ARGUMENT
THE ROLE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AFRICAN UNITY
The Triangle Game: The UK, France, and the United States1
The Writers and Intellectuals
The War and the Nigerian Intellectual
The Life and Work of Christopher Okigbo
The Major Nigerian Actors in the Conflict: Ojukwu and Gowon
THE ARISTOCRAT
THE GENTLEMAN GENERAL
THE FIRST SHOT
The Biafran Invasion of the Mid-West
Gowon Regroups
The Asaba Massacre
Biafran Repercussions
Blood, Blood, Everywhere
The Calabar Massacre
BIAFRA, 1969
The Republic of Biafra
THE INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATION OF A NEW NATION
The Biafran State
THE BIAFRAN FLAG
THE BIAFRAN NATIONAL ANTHEM
THE MILITARY
OGBUNIGWE
BIAFRAN TANKS
A TIGER JOINS THE ARMY
FREEDOM FIGHTERS
Traveling on Behalf of Biafra
REFUGEE MOTHER AND CHILD (A MOTHER IN A REFUGEE CAMP)
Life in Biafra
The Abagana Ambush
AIR RAID
The Citadel Press
The Ifeajuna Manuscript
Staying Alive
Death of the Poet: “Daddy, Don’t Let Him Die!”
MANGO SEEDLING
Refugees
WE LAUGHED AT HIM
The Media War
Narrow Escapes
VULTURES
PART 3
The Fight to the Finish
The Economic Blockade and Starvation
The Silence of the United Nations
Azikiwe Withdraws Support for Biafra
The Recapture of Owerri
Biafra Takes an Oil Rig: “The Kwale Incident”
1970 and The Fall
The Question of Genocide
The Arguments
The Case Against the Nigerian Government
Gowon Responds
PART 4
Nigeria’s Painful Transitions: A Reappraisal
Corruption and Indiscipline
State Failure and the Rise of Terrorism
State Resuscitation and Recovery
AFTER A WAR
POSTSCRIPT: THE EXAMPLE OF NELSON MANDELA
APPENDIX
NOTES
INDEX
Chinua Achebe
There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
