BIAFRA STORY: Thе Mаking of аn Africаn Lеgеnd
Publisher: Pеn аnd Sword
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-04
List price: $29.95
This stunning narrative marked the turning point in the writing career of Frederick Forsyth, who subsequently wrote The Dogs of War and The Day of the Jackal. Previously, Forsyth had been a journalist but his book on Biafra marked his remarkable debut as an author. Largely forgotten today, Biafra was a break-away province of Nigeria and the scene of a bloody civil war in the 1960s. Biafra’s population largely consisted of the minority Ibo people, who were in revolt against Nigeria’s majority Hausa and Fulani people. While the world community today looks with more favor on secessio...