A federal soldier swings a hand grenade by its release pin while guarding Ibo women prisoners and their children in Nigeria, during the Biafran War. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Nigerian troops entering Port Harcourt, after routing Biafran troops during the Biafran War. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)
(Original Caption) 8/7/1968-Biafra, Africa- This is military training Biafran style. These recruits go through the paces somewhere in Biafra. Nigerian spokesmen have been meeting with a delegation from secessionist Biafra in peace talks in Ethiopia in a bid to end Nigeria’s 13-month-old civil war. Meanwhile starvation threatens many in besieged Biafra.
View of a young male soldier from the Republic of Biafra crouching in a foxhole with a rifle during the Nigerian – Biafran civil war in Nigeria in August 1968. Members of the Igbo tribe rebelled in 1967 to demand a separate Republic of Biafra. The war and famine lasted until 1970, when the Biafran Republic forces surrendered to the nationalist government. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images)
NIGERIA – 1968: Wedding of an officer of the Ibo ethnic group during the Biafra war in 1968 in Nigeria. (Photo by Fondation Gilles CARON/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
