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Witness History: Escaping Nigeria’s Civil War

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04/08/2021 GMT

Escaping Nigeria’s Civil War

BBC World Service - Witness History, Escaping Nigeria’s Civil War

Patti Boulaye recalls frightening times as a 13-year-old girl in the Biafran War in 1967.

Patti Boulaye recalls frightening times as a 13-year-old girl caught up in the Biafran War in 1967.

When the south-east region of Nigeria declared itself to be the independent state of Biafra, civil war broke out. More than a million people died before the fighting stopped. We bring you one child’s story of  getting caught up in the frontline. Paul Waters hears from Patricia Ngozi Ebigwe, now better known as TV and music star Patti Boulaye, who was 13 years old when she had to try to escape the conflict. ‘We were told: Careless talk kills‘ Patricia remembers. ‘When you walked past dead bodies in the street, I didn’t want to look at their faces, because maybe it was someone I knew.’ Photo: 13-year-old Patricia Ngozi Ebigwe (Courtesy of Patti Boulaye)

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