The Fall of Biafra by Ben Gbulie
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Overview: The Fall of Biafra represents the ultimate in-depth story of Nigeria’s breakaway Region in a way never before told. A factual inside account of the events and circumstances which, rather suddenly than unexpectedly, put paid to the Easterners’ quest for self-determination, it is rendered in vivid detail by an ‘ex-rebel’ officer who was himself right in the vortex of the 30-month sanguinary struggle.
Ben Gbulie, accomplished author of Nigeria’s Five Majors as well as Figments and Nothing, lays bare, inter alia, the factors precipitating the loss of Biafra’s Aba province – a tragic loss which formed the genesis of the secessionists’ eventual capitulation; the attempt by some Biafrans to co-opt him to conduct a coup; the spirited last-minute effort brought to fruition, after General Ojukwu’s departure from the enclave, to avert further wanton distruction of lives and property; the eventual aftermath of Biafra’s collapse; the initial contact with General Gowon’s field commanders, the spate of brutalities, the interrogation, the ‘protective custody’…
In the potpourri of endless books and essays written on the Nigerian Civil War (July 6, 1967 – January 12, 1970), The Fall of Biafra is no doubt unique in its most illuminating treatment of priviledged information recapturing the terrifying final stage of the open conflict.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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