At the core, it's a struggle for identity. The e-bores at the start of the war say, if we're only safe in the Southeast, then we have no business with the rest of the country. It fell to families across the Southeast to try and establish this new nation of Biafran. And that's the work that your family did. Many of the people I spoke with within my family were just shy of being teenagers when the war broke out. So they weren't people who actively participated in as fighters or soldiers in the infantry men during the war.
Emmanuel Iduma is a Nigerian author and critic whose new book, I Am Still With You, explores the legacy of the Nigerian Civil War, which began in 1967 and lasted nearly three years. In the book, Iduma asks questions about how the conflict has affected the generations since, many of whom have had to live with difficult questions hanging over their family histories. Joining Iduma in conversation is our host, Dipo Faloyin, author of Africa Is Not A Country and Senior Editor for Vice.
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