When The Sky Burned Red

This memoir recounts lived experience during the Biafran War (1967–1970). While the documented anti‑Igbo pogroms of 1966 preceded the formal outbreak of war, this narrative opens within the war itself, as it was first understood and lived by a child. Memories of earlier violence surface later in the text, not as background, but as part of a continuum in which mass violence against civilians functioned as a tool of terror and coercion. This work is offered as witness and remembrance rather than as a comprehensive political or military history.