Word: biafra
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...raised by the book is identified by its long subtitle: "How, in pursuit of political objectives in the Nigerian Civil War, a number of great and small nations, including Britain and the United States, worked to prevent supplies of food and medicine from reaching the starving children of rebel Biafra...
Ezejo-Okoye was born in England but spent most of his first four years in Nigeria. A few months after the Nigeria-Biafra war broke out. Ezeji-Okoye, his mother and sister escaped on a French ammunitions plane and returned to England...
...with a baseball bat for four bits. When another local loon, the self-appointed Norton I, Emperor of North America and Protector of Mexico, died in 1880, 30,000 people (out of a population of 234,000) went to the funeral. A century later, a punk rocker named Jello Biafra ran for mayor and finished fourth among ten candidates. Rudyard Kipling wrote that San Francisco was "a mad city-inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty." He liked it. Other American cities had their rambunctious phases, but San Francisco...
...preparation of this week's story, which included reporting from the majority of countries in black Africa, Clark was able to work alongside five old Africa hands. Correspondent James Wilde, who covered Africa for TIME from the mid-1960s to 1971, including the Biafra revolt in Nigeria, was back in that country last week to report on the sudden military coup. He got there, barely, in a small chartered plane from the Ivory Coast. "Over Lagos," says Wilde, "the harmattan, a dust-laden wind blowing from the Sahara, had reduced visibility to 500 yds. On our first...
...Reuters as a foreign correspondent, he joined TIME'S Paris bureau in 1963. His most frenzied week working abroad came when he visited four countries in Africa in 48 hours ("literally by plane, Land Rover and dugout canoe") to report a late-breaking 1967 story on tribalism after Biafra's secession from Nigeria. His most draining assignment: seven months in Czechoslovakia covering the crushing of the 1968 Prague Spring by the Soviets. "We often wrote with tears in our eyes there," he remembers...