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...Biafra's major cities, including the capital of Enugu, squeezing the rebel army of some 35,000 into an interior area only a third as large as the 29,000 sq. mi. that it originally held. Even so, because they fear genocide at the hands of the other Nigerian tribes if they are defeated, the Ibo stubbornly fight on. They have managed to hold Port Harcourt, Biafra's main port, and have fought a hard rear-guard action. Frustrated by its failure to win a decisive victory, the federal government has tried to break the Biafrans by stepping...
Africa's most talked about playwright is Nigerian Wole Soyinka, 33, who has languished in jail since August on charges that he aided the Biafran secession. His voice is being heard loud and clear off Broadway. Two Soyinka one-acters were produced in November, and now the skillful and creative Negro Ensemble Company (TIME, Jan. 12) has undertaken his full-length Kongi's Harvest. In their hands, it is a considerably better production than it is a play, although there is some interest in seeing how an African writes about Africa's No. 1 problem: turning tribes...
...probably its biggest leisure class. When the Spanish government gave the island's Bubi tribesmen their own farms, many of the placid, easygoing natives simply leased the land to Spanish and Portuguese settlers, then sat back and began taking in income. The settlers, in turn, imported Nigerian laborers, who now make up two-thirds of Fernando Poo's 60,000 population. Other mainlanders from as far away as Sierra Leone moved to the island to set up business. Today, hundreds of the island's people are wealthy, dress formally for dinner and send their children...
Ohiri came to Harvard as an already established athlete. He had been Nigerian decathlon champion, inter-collegiate boxing champion, and leader of the National Soccer Team and 1960 Nigerian Olympic Team...
Speedboat Raids. Around Port Harcourt in the south, Biafrans have kept at bay Nigerian troops, who are 25 miles down the channel on Bonny Island. They have mounted gun batteries and trip-wire mines around the channel to discourage a waterborne assault, even venture out in speedboats for raids on Bonny. Biafran guerrillas sneak into their occupied capital of Enugu at night to harry the federal garrison, are battling with rusty Dane guns and cutlasses against a federal division along the Niger River. The Biafrans have also prevented another invasion force dug into the port town of Calabar from crossing...