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Enugu
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Enugu , city (1991 est. pop. 279,000), SE...gases, and steel are the chief products. Enugu developed as a mining town after the discovery...1916 the railroad from Port Harcourt reached Enugu. The city served as capital of Nigeria...
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Republic of Biafra
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Odumegwu Ojukwu and included some non-Igbos. Biafra's original capital was Enugu ; Aba, Umuahia, and Owerri served successively as provisional capitals after Enugu was captured (Oct., 1967) by Nigerian forces. Seeking to maintain national...
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Igbo
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Igbo are divided into the Nri-Awka of Onitsha and Awka; the Enugu of Nsukka, Ud ì , Awgu, and Okigwe; and those of...administrative units. Presently, they constitute the entire Enugu State, Anambra State, Abia State, Imo State, and the Ahoada...
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Nigeria
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...700 ft/2,040 m) is located. In addition to Abuja and Lagos, other major cities include Aba , Abeokuta , Ado , Benin , Enugu , Ibadan , Ife , Ilesha , Ilorin , Iwo , Kaduna , Kano , Maiduguri , Mushin , Ogbomosho , Onitsha , Oshogbo , Port Harcourt...
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Chinua Achebe
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...being starved to death and massacred. He wrote articles for newspapers and magazines about the Biafran struggle and living in Enugu, the designated capital of Biafra, and founded the Citadel Press with Nigerian poet Christopher Okigbo. Writing a novel at...
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Arinze, Francis
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...pointed out, if he was going to proceed. He attended Catholic schools in Nigeria and entered the Bigard Memorial Seminary in Enugu when he was 13. He received a degree there in 1955, was ordained as a priest three years later after sailing from Nigeria...
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Cyprian Ekwensi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...disturbances in the Western and Northern regions in the summer of 1966, Ekwensi gave up his position and relocated his family at Enugu. He became chair of the Bureau for External Publicity in Biafra and an adviser to the head of state, Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu...
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