BIAFRA: Corporal Nwafor And Weeping Souls
Sasa Ugwumba Kalu Nwoke. Image via Youtube There is an uncanny twist to the civil war which seems to blind those of us who should let the world know what really happened. I am talking about people from the former eastern region who were forced by genocide to become Biafrans in 1967. Sasa Ugwumba Kalu Nwoke was a class three student of the elite Government Secondary School, Afikpo, when the genocide began in 1966. Born into a comfortable middle-class home, his ambition was not to fight in any kind of war even if his Ohafia ancestors were warriors. A chance trip to the Enugu train station where he saw headless bodies and human parts brought in from Northern Nigeria turned him to a man. At school, he could neither bear the sorry sight nor console his junior, Nicholas Obasi. The boy’s father hid in a sack and watched as his pregnant wife was slaughtered in their Kano home. The foetus was not spared. At 16 years on January 28, 1968, Sasa forced his way into the Biafra Army