The Untold Story of the Nigeria-Biafra War

Whoever proposed that things to be hidden from Africans should be placed between the covers of books is rude and wrong; in any case, he did not know of Dr. Luke Nnaemeka Aneke, Esq. The medical and juris doctor has gone beyond the covers of books, beyond the mountain of literature on Nigeria-Biafra War, and into the 40-year-old documentation of events before, during, and immediately after the Nigeria-Biafra crisis. The fat book, all 766 + 20 pages of pulp, is worth its weight in gold. It has set a new standard in the documentation of the defining period in the 47-year-old British colonial contraption we call Nigeria.
 
The Untold Story of the Nigeria-Biafra War is a reviewer’s nightmare at first sight. Oh yes, even reviewers want it short and simple! Then you settle down to flip through the pages, and it hit you: This is no ordinary book; it is a documentation of published agency and newspaper reports as the events unfolded, a living resource. This realization immediately raises the question: Why “untold”? The book is composition of told stories, of reports fielded from fields of war and firsthand presentation of the good, the bad, and the evil. In fact, the subtitle captures it better: “A chronological reconstruction of the events of the Nigerian Civil War.” If I were to title the book, I would have preferred: “Nigeria-Biafra War: A Chronological Construction.” This book is a construction of facts from various sources.