I was about nine years old in May 1967 when Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu pronounced what is today known as the South-east together with a good chunk of the present South-south of Nigeria as the Independent Republic of Biafra. Those were heady days. While Nigerians considered Ojukwu just a Lieutenant Colonel in the Nigerian Army, to us, he was the General of the People’s Army, a deity of some sort who did no wrong. Ojukwu was all-knowing. After all, he had been to Oxford, one of the best universities in the world. His father...