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July 9, 2011
Emma Okocha, author of Blood on the Niger The First Black on Black Genocide
The Biafran secession from Nigeria in 1967 unleashed one of Africa's most brutal wars as the federal government quelled the rebellion. So savage were reprisals that many view the Nigerian response as a precursor of the genocidal tragedies in Rwanda and Darfur a generation later. Emmanuel Okocha, orphaned by the conflict, details the dreadful massacre of the village of Asaba during the Biafran War.
