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Biafra, Republic of
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Biafra, Republic of

African state proclaimed 1967 when fears that Nigerian central government was increasingly in the hands of the rival Hausa tribe led the predominantly Ibo Eastern Region of Nigeria to secede under Lt-Col Odumegwu Ojukwu. On the proclamation of Biafra, civil war ensued with the rest of the federation. In a bitterly fought campaign federal forces confined the Biafrans to a shrinking area of the interior by 1968, and by 1970 Biafra ceased to exist. Around 1 million Biafrans died in the famine caused by the civil war.



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In the unlikely event that this prize-winning author never writes another word, her place in literary history is secured with her second novel, her tribute to her people, the Igbo, who, after being massacred in 1966, broke away from Nigeria to create the Republic of Biafra and then fought an unsuccessful three-year war of secession.
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