Biafra’s War: A Tribal
Biafra’s War: A Tribal Conflict in Nigeria that left a million Dead
By Al J. Venter
Helion & Company. R200
In this vast picture of the Nigerian-Biafran War showing a comprehensive portrait of Nigeria and, to a larger extent, of West Africa in the 1960s, Venter not only writes about the war in all its complexity, but also makes the reader live the war. Through his incredible account in which personal experience mingles with historical facts, the multiples faces of the first fully mediatised war in the 20th century become more and more visible to the public as they mix with individual stories about it. Venter’s account is a true historical document which allows older as well as younger generations to understand a bit more about this complex ethnic civil war that largely shaped the political present situation of Nigeria.