Biafra Quotes

“Ugwu fumbled, awkwardly, for something to say. ‘Are you still writing your book, sah?’
‘No.’
‘”The World Was Silent When We Died”. It is a good title.’
‘Yes, it is. It came from something Colonel Madu said once.’
Richard paused. ‘The war isn’t my story to tell, really.’
Ugwu nodded. He had never thought that it was.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“On some issues, it will be an apparent insult to expect one not to be emotional about it, not to be prejudiced or side one's kit and kin.

On issues as deep and as touchy as the Nigerian civil war and its consequences to the easterners, till this present day, to ask me not to cry, not to mourn, not to discuss it, is reduce me to a robot and ask of me a miracle, I am no TB Joshua.

I may not discuss it often, but in truth, it was a regrettable and sorrowful experience, for any people at all!”
― Magnus Nwagu Amudi

“As for national greatness: It is probably true that all nations are great and even holy at the time of death. The Biafrans had never fought before. They fought well this time. They will never fight again. They will never play Finlandia on an ancient marimba again. Peace.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons

“We didn't do anything illegal, all we ever did was exist as IGBO PEOPLE.”
― Genereux Philip