Region of Nigeria

Usage examples of biafra.

Stop at the bend where part of the Atlantic Ocean curves inward and becomes the Bight of Biafra.

The death of the nation of Biafra was a matter of days now, not weeks, and he and his wife were some of the last to go.

The Ibos were not on an island, and Biafra was destroyed by Nigerian numbers and British and Russian weapons and a blockade that no nation on earth made any effort to relieve, not on a scale that could save anyone.

She remembered standing between her parents and the Howarths (who, though they had adopted her, had never let her call them Mother and Father lest she forget her real heritage in Biafra), hearing her father say, “Please.

My father was an illiterate savage who spoke better English than her and had French and German, too, and wrote beautiful poems in Igbo and even though to survive in the days when Biafra was struggling for survival he worked as a house servant to an American correspondent, he was never illiterate!

Taking me back to the burned-out jungle in Biafra where fear grew thicker than the vines.

Forsyth is currently at work on a third novel, The Dogs of War, which he has set among mercenaries in Africa and in which he has included details of gun-running from Europe he uncovered while researching his nonfiction book, The Biafra Story, and while serving as the BBC's television correspondent in Biafra during the Nigerian civil war.

Anyway, he wrote me saying he was going to join the mercenaries in Biafra.