The Fall Of Biafra

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'...