Chapter 1

34 Chukwuani was kind and friendly. The tenants saw themselves as one big family living in a yard. Except for two tenants who moved in recently, others had lived together for almost 30 years. Since they saw themselves as one big family, any parent could correct a child and even administer corporal punishment.

the preface

I was a teenager when the Nigerian crisis that led to the civil war started in 1966. The aftermath of that war profoundly impacted my life and the lives of the Igbo people of Nigeria.

The Bombs on Gaza and Biafra

I was thinking about the bombs Israel is dropping on Gaza and reflexively reliving the horror of the bombs the Egyptians, who piloted Russian MiG fighters for Nigeria, dropped on us in Biafra. No difference, except that ours in Biafra wasn’t on live television.

GCSS Gborokiri Port Harcourt

GOVERNMENT COMPREHENSIVE SECONDARY SCHOOL (GCSS), Gborokiri, Port Harcourt, was a prestigious experimental high school by the then government of Eastern Nigeria and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).

announcing first is last

For the past two years, I have been working on a book about the Nigerian civil war – fictionalizing my experiences about the war.