title: The Brothers' War: Biafra and Nigeria
author:  John de St. Jorre 
description: John de St. Jorre was born in London and educated in Britain and Singapore. After five years in the British Foreign Service he became a journalist. He covered the Nigerian-Biafran civil war and wrote The Brothers' War: Biafra and Nigeria, to be reissued in Faber Finds. He lives in New York and works as a freelance writer.
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  We are Biafrans 
  Fighting for our freedom; In the name of Jesus We shall conquer. 
  'Lep! Ai! Lep! Ai!...' shouted a young Second Lieutenant, trim and smart in his well-starched 
  green khaki uniform, shiningly ironed in a manner that displayed three horizontal lines across his 
  back. 
  The brand-new Biafra Sun emblem, a yellow half sun on a black background, symbol of the 
  four-month old nation, Biafra, distinguished him from his trainees: he was a soldier, an officer, 
  albeit commissioned only the week before; his trainees were young volunteers who had poured 
  into Enugu like soldier ants from all over the young republic, to save their capital from the 
  Nigerian 'vandals', as every Biafran called their former comp atriots now turned enemies. 
  We are Biafrans 
  Marching to the war; In the name of Jesus We shall conquer. 
  'Lep! Ai! Lep! Ai!...' 
  The trainees hardly heard the shouting young officer. They sang their war song with great 
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