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July 9, 2011
John Sherman is author of War Stories: A Memoir of Nigeria and Biafra.
In 1968, while the world was preoccupied with Vietnam, a savage civil war ravaged Nigeria. The eastern region, known as Biafra, waged a bloody and ultimately unsuccessful attempt at succession. John Sherman describes what it was like trying to render humanitarian aid in the surreal atmosphere of conflict.
