Après la guerre

"Monday, January 12th 1970, Footage of scenes in Lagos as Philip Efiong, successor to Odumegwu Ojukwu, announces the surrender of the Biafran armed forces.

The capitulation of the Biafra, which as the former Eastern Region of Nigeria, seceded from the federation on May 30th 1967, came after numerous setbacks on the battlefield; the last of which was the overrunning of the provisional capital of Owerri.

Residents in the then Nigerian capital city of Lagos poured into the streets and huddled around transistor radios to hear Efiong's dramatic broadcast."



"August 1970. ITN News footage of the aftermath of the Nigerian Civil War looking at the challenges faced by the Igbo people who formed the predominant group in the defeated secessionist state of Biafra.
 [Includes] interviews with Cyprian Ekwensi, the renowned novelist, who had become a plastic bottle salesman and S.G. Ikoku, the son of Alvan Ikoku who served as a Commissioner for Economic Development and of Health in the East-Central State of Nigeria. Source of footage: Getty Images via ITN News."


MUSIC: "Cock Crow At Dawn" by Bongos Ikwue, remade for the movie Inalé.


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