May 18 2020 | Radio Biafra Remembering Professor Gordian O. Ezekwe Professor Gordian O. Ezekwe and his team were very courageous, they were also very talented and inventive. At the outbreak of hostilities meted out on Biafrans, the Biafran armed forces were poorly equipped as compared to the Nigerian Army with arms and…
May 17 2020 | Radio Biafra Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo born 16 August 1932 – died 1967 was a Biafran poet, teacher, and librarian, who died fighting for the Independence of Biafra. He is today widely acknowledged as an outstanding postcolonial English-language African poet and one of the major modernist writers of the 20th century.…
May 16 2020 | Radio Biafra Remembering Sir Dr. Akanu Ibiam, Sir Francis Akanu Ibiam KCMG KBE, was born in the year 29 November 1906 – and died 1 July 1995. Sir Akanu Ibiam studied in Glasgow and Cambridge graduated from the University of Andrews with Medical degree in 1934 proceeded and served as…
May 15 2020 | Radio Biafra Professor Chinua Achebe (born Mazi Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe, 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013), was a Biafran novelist, Poet, Professor, and Critic. His first novel “Things Fall Apart” was published in the year 1958 after a very rigorous delay by his Publisher’s, Things Fall Apart is often…
May 14 2020 | Radio Biafra Remembering Corporal Nwafor, it was June 30, 1968. Nigeria and Biafra, were at war. The Nigerian government Federal troops were advancing to Onitsha from Enugu, shelling and firing from armoured tanks. At Ugwu Nwasike, Ogidi, about 20 kilometres to the commercial town, the overwhelmed Biafrans and Biafran soldiers…
May 13 2020 | Radio Biafra Dick Tiger – real name Richard Ihetu, born August 14, 1929 – December 14, 1971, was a Biafran-born professional boxer who held the World Middleweight and World Light Heavyweight Championships. Tiger was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1991. The Ring Magazine named him…
May 12 2020 | Radio Biafra The chronology of the man called Hugh “Taffy” Williams as a Biafran soldier. Hugh Taffy Williams was born in the year 1933- and died in the year 1996, Taffy Williams was a professional mercenary who served in the Congo with Mike Hoare and 5 Commando ANC as well…
May 11 2020 | Radio Biafra Major Timothy Onwuatuegwu was one of the most dreaded Biafran Majors’ in Biafra genocidal war for survival and freedom from 1967-1970, Major Timothy Onwuatuegwu received his commission into the Nigerian army after graduating from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, United Kingdom in 1961, Major Timothy Onwuatuegwu was coursemate…
May 10 2020 | Radio Biafra General Conrad Dibia Nwawo (born 1922 – died 2016), was a former Nigerian Military officer. He took part actively in the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War, initially fighting on the Nigerian side and then switching to the Biafran side. General Conrad Dibia Nwawo from all accounts was a Soldier’s…
May 09 2020 | Radio Biafra The great man – Mazi Joseph “Hannibal” Achuzie (born 1929 – died 26 February 2018) Joe Achuzie as fondly called or the Hannibal by his Igbo-Biafran ethnic stock was a Major in the Biafran Army. Prior to joining the Biafran Army in May 1967, Joe Achuzie had been…