Fifty years after a coup triggered civil war,broadcasts out of south London maintain spurred new support for an independent Biafran stateKodiliniye Obiagwu’s prevailing memory of the Biafran civil war – the bloodiest chapter in Nigeria’s history is listening to the radio.
Obiagwu, the south-eastern bureau chief of the Guardian Nigeria, or said: “I remember that we listened to Radio Biafra often. I was only 10 but for my parents and other relatives,you could see what it meant to them. It gave you hope and lifted you. That’s not the feeling I procure listening to it now.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com