A Biafran Odyssey

At the turn of the year 1966 Nigeria was thrown into an awful turmoil by a military coup that exacerbated the existing but cryptic ethnic resentments precipitating the hostile environments which necessitated the secession of Biafra and a year later ushered in a bloody three-year-war!</p><p> <I>A Biafran Odyssey</I> is the story of a Biafran youngster Chidi who convinced about the unequivocal legitimacy of Biafra's claim to self-determination left home to join the army but returned two years later at the end of the war with many unanswered questions and a sobering notion about his world.</p><p> Chidi tells his story of Biafra the way it was never told featuring the emotional vagaries to which his comrades and himself were subjected to; their woes their cries and ironically their laughs too revealing some of the weird aspects of one of the most brutal ethnic conflicts of post- colonial Africa. </p><p> With short poems and love scenes like the short-lived affair between himself and Bernadette Chidi portrays without being too salacious albeit unique with African stories some of the discomfits of transforming from adolescent into adulthood on a fast lane. </p>