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Bob Criso’s Return To Ishiagu Andy Simmonds (18) 66-67 “As the crowd became more agitated, the villagers encircled my house in Ishiagu in May 1967. Soon two men appeared…
MIDWEST EVACUATION JOHN L. BUCHANAN Alpharetta, Georgia February 13, 2007 Background. I was a Peace Corp volunteer in the first group of volunteers to go overseas in 1961…
A bu Onye Ohafia: The view from the Porch Martin R. Wong, Ph.D. Nigeria V I was a Peace Corps Volunteer teacher at Ohafia High School in Ebem,…
When I think of Nigeria’s civil war, one memory always stands out: Biafra’s “invasion” of Gombe. We had been in Gombe over a year. The day unfolded routinely. Classes…
Judith McKay Sides Nigeria 2 (1961-1963) Introduction by David Strain gleaned from an email from Judith Judith McKay (Sides) was a member of Nigeria II, teaching anatomy and zoology…
Letters and Notes from My Peace Corps Experience in Biafra (October 8, 1966 through July 20, 1967) Jonathan B. Seale, Nigeria XXIV (1966-1967) In the spring…
INVASION by Herbert Howe Nigeria 20 (1966-1967) 4:00. Eki [the school’s nightwatch] ran over to tell us—but we still can’t believe it. We—three young expatriate teachers—are…
Evacuation from Biafra Ned Greeley Group 23, A teacher at St. Aidan's Secondary School between Enugu and Abakaliki This is a reprint of a letter to the editor in the…
UNDER CURFEW A Biafran Sketch by Robert J. Attaway (Group 18, '65-'67) You know how memory is sometimes. Like everyone else, I can tell you…
BIAFRA REMEMBERED Chuck Ahlgren, Nigeria 4 (1962-1964) While in Nigeria (1962-64), first at Bishop Shanahan College, Orlu, and then at the University of Nsukka, I saw signs of increasing…
