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The Story of Biafra, as told by one of Ojukwu’s Generals, Alexander Madiebo

“People of nowadays who fight for Biafra, they don’t really understand what they are fighting for”

Olisa Eloka
Jan 26, 2019
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Biafran soldiers seen here advancing towards the Nigerian army, 11th June 1968 .
 (Photo by Ron Burton/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)
Biafran soldiers seen here advancing towards the Nigerian army, 11th June 1968 . (Photo by Ron Burton/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)

As the train, laden with goods, wound to a stop five miles from the bridge, in the driver’s compartment, the man on the passenger’s seat promptly discarded the clothing he was putting on and quickly slipped into a spare fireman’s …

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