Nyorai kuenderera mberi kwechikamu chino - Mushure mekunge Nigeria yawana rusununguko kubva kuhurumende yeBritain muna 1960, kushorwa kwevanhu verudzi rweIgbo kumabvazuva kwakawedzera. Apo munhu anonzi wechiIgbo akatungamira kudengenyeka
Vakadzinga nokuuraya vakuru vakuru vehurumende, mamwe mapoka emadzinza eNigeria, zvikurukuru vaHausa, vakatanga mushandirapamwe mukuru wokurwisa vaIgbo. Mushandirapamwe uyu wakatanga negakava rairwisana nevaIgbo ra1966 uye kupandukira kweNigeria kwa1966. Muchiitiko ichi, zvinhu zvevaIgbo zvakaparadzwa uye maIgbos anosvika mazana matatu ezviuru akatiza kuchamhembe ndokuenda kunotsvaga kuchengetedzeka kumabvazuva uye maIgbos anosvika zviuru makumi matatu vakaurayiwa. Mukupandukira kwakatevera, vanhuwo zvavo vechiIgbo uye vashandi vemauto vakapondwawo nenzira yakarongwa. Musi wa 30 Chivabvu 1967, apo maIgbos akazivisa rusununguko rwavo kubva kuNigeria ndokuumba nyika yakazvimiririra yeBiafra, hurumende dzeNigeria neBritain dzakatangisa kurambidzwa kwakazara kweBiafra. Pakutanga pakurwisa, Biafra yakatanga kutambura uye hurumende yayo yaifanira kufamba kakawanda nokuti uto reNigeria rakaramba richipamba maguta aro makuru. Chikonzero chikuru chorufu chaiva nzara, uye vana ndivo vaitambura zvikuru. Vana vaiwanzotambudzwa neKwashiorkor, chirwere chinokonzerwa nokushaya zvokudya zvinovaka muviri. Vanhu vacho vaida kudya vanhu kakawanda. Kurondedzerwa kwokutambura kwavana veIgbo kunonzi kwakaitwa nebasa reFrench Red Cross nemamwe masangano echiKristu. Kune fungidziro dzakawanda dzorufu rwevaIgbo mukuuraya rudzi. Nhamba yavarwi vakaurawa muhondo inofungidzirwa kuva 100 000 uye nhamba yavanhuwo zvavo vakaurawawo inosiyana kubva pa 500 000 kusvika kumamiriyoni 3,5. Vanopfuura hafu yeavo vakafa muhondo vaiva vana. Pari zvino, Nigeria ichiri kudzvinyirira kuratidzira kune rugare kwevanoda kuzvimiririra kweBiafra, kazhinji nokutumira masoja kuti arove varatidziri uye kunyange kuvauraya.