Struggle for Secession, 1966-1970

Ntieyong U. Akpan Chief Secretary of the Government and Head of the Civil Service of Eastern Nigeria (which declared itself ‘Biafra’ in 1967) 1966–1970

• Military Take-Over; Chapter 1 The Military Take-Over; Chapter 2 Emeka in the Saddle; Chapter 3 The Kidnap; The Germs of Civil War; Chapter 4 Futile Negotiations; Chapter 5 Over the Precipice; Chapter 6 Secession; The Period of Civil War; Chapter 7 The War Rages; Chapter 8 Why Did the War Last so Long?; Chapter 9 Internal Tensions and the Ahiara Declaration; Chapter 10 Attempts to End the War; Chapter 11 Biafra and the British Government; Chapter 12 The Minorities; Chapter 13 The Relief Agencies; The Collapse of Biafra; Chapter 14 The Flight; Chapter 15 Eleven Days in Abidjan; Chapter 16 The Dramatic End to Secession; Chapter 17 The Sudden Collapse of the Biafran Army;