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Escape from Nigeria: A Memoir of Faith, Love and War

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Angelina Ihejirika

 

A young mother who struggled to protect the six small children her husband had left her with while attending a university overseas, just before the Nigerian-Biafran War erupted in July 1967. When the Eastern Region seceded from Nigeria and became known as Biafra, Angelina and her children were marooned in the war-torn, famine-ravaged Biafra, her husband far away in school at the University of Fourah Bay in Sierra Leone. Neither Christopher nor Angelina knew if each other were alive for more than two years, the war cutting off all communication between Biafra and the outside world.

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