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 |
Biafran soldiers |
Biafran Boy soldier with French Legionary, Ralph Steiner |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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Armored car, built and used by indigenous Biafran scientists |
Video Clips of the Biafran Saga |
Post Biafra Experience in Ivory Coast & Ireland Presentation at National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland, 2010 |
Images and videos from personal collection and courtesy of YouTube as well as Google and Yahoo Images. |