Images of Biafra:Land of the Rising Sun

Right, a principal figure of the
reprisal coup of July 1966, Colonel
Gowon became head-of-state at 32
following the murder of the former
head-of-state, General Ironsi, who
had appointed him Chief of Army
Staff. The coup also provoked the
massacre of some 50,000
easterners in the north.

Images of Biafra

Right, makeshift Biafra
Radio in Obodo-Ukwu; it
was here on January 12,
1970 that Major-General
Philip Efiong, Officer
Administering the
Federal Republic of
Biafra, made the initial
broadcast that brought
the civil war to an end.

1968, General Ojukwu attending Peace Talks in
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

American pilot Ron Archer making
relief runs to Biafra

Belgian (Biafran) mercenary, Marc Goosens,
killed in the Onitsha sector, 1968

Biafran Soldier, probably in the Abagana sector

Biafran soldiers, defending Aba

Right, young Biafran
soldier, probably with
captured ammunition

Biafran soldiers

Biafran Boy soldier with French Legionary, Ralph Steiner

Left, Biafran boy
soldier carrying
another wounded
Boy soldier, 1968

Burning Nigerian military vehicle with burned
corpse following ambush by Biafran soldiers

Feeding children at refugee camp in Anwa,
present Akwa Ibom State

Captured Biafran soldiers, 1968

General Ojukwu, center, and members of
his cabinet at a church service

Biafran soldiers during a break from intense fighting

Man carrying what could be his dead child, friend or other
relative in a coffin en route to burial, 1968

Biafran officer talking to one of his dead soldiers

Left to right, Colonels Kurubo, Ojuwkwu and
Efiong before the war, 1967

Nigerian soldier on Aba-Umuahia Road

Left, federal troops advancing on and shelling Port Harcourt under the
leadership of Lieutenant Colonal Benjamin Adekunle, AKA Black Scorpion,
probably 1968

A common sight in Biafra; refugees fleeing
from the enemy

Injured Biafran soldiers; the lame leading the blind
(the two to the right are strikingly young)

Injured Biafran soldiers in
makeshift ambulance

Starving Biafran children, dead and dying

June 10, 1967, Ojukwu is sworn in as
head-of-state of the newly created Biafra

Left, the ugly face of
kwashiorkor; starvation was
used as a "legitimate" weapon
of war against Biafran civilians

Reunion in Lagos, January 15, 1970; General Gowon embracing Sir
Louis Mbanefo, former Chief Justice of Biafra (looking on with smile
in the center is Major General Philip Efiong)

Young mother and starving child

Young mother and starving children

May 30, 1967, declaration of the creation of Biafra
by Lieutenant Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu

Ojukwu, displaying new Biafran stamps and currency

Starving Biafran boy

Starving Biafran Children on cover of Life
magazine

Crowds in Lagos celebrate Biafra's
surrender on January 12, 1970.

Attending to a wounded Biafran soldier

Left, teenage
Biafran boy,
destitute, starving
and begging

Right, John Lennon and Yoko Ono
displaying letter from Lennon to
British Prime Minister Harold
Wilson, Nov. 25, 1969. The letter
explains his reason for returning
his Order of the British Empire
medal--it is because of Britain's
support of the US in Vietnam and
for its support of Nigeria in the
Nigeria-Biafra Civil War.

Folk singer Joan Baez and rock star Jimi Hendrix taking a break at a
Biafra relief benefit show in Manhattan, August 29, 1968

Victims of an air attack, in the middle is a child

Retreating Biafran soldiers, unable to
assist the dead and dying

Starving albino child with can probably used for begging;
in the background are other malnourished children

Biafran soldier, probably with captured
explosives

New York, Aug. 18, 1968; demonstrators
protest against genocide on Biafran
populations

Malnourished and perhaps dying Biafran child