This novel is based on the Biafran war from the Biafran perspective.
There is no major plot; rather, selected characters representing
different sections of the population of Biafra are followed from the
onset of war to the dying days.
These
include Dr Amilo Kanu with a Hausa wife named Fatima. During the course
of the war Fatima lost her first son, and was transformed from a
metropolitan woman with disregard for village life, her husband’s
village-dwelling parents and their Igbo language, to a strong mature
woman who had grown close to the lives of her parents-in-law, worked to
save the hungry children and championed the cause of Biafra. Another
prominent character is Bassey, a millionaire who lost everything from
Enugu to Onitsha to Port Harcourt and nearly went crazy. The Biafran
people were shown to be ingenious and brave generally and would have won
the war if the Nigerians had not been backed by major European and
American countries.
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