Food Diplomacy: The Study of the Nigeria-Biafra War of 1967-1970

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INTRODUCTION
This is a report base on one of the recommended text in the course outline titled ‘Food and Drink in African History’. One of main content in this text vividly speaks about one diplomatic tool employed by the Nigerian Government in defeating the Eastern people of Nigerian – Food Diplomacy.

Poetry: Christmas in Biafra by Chinua Achebe

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This sunken-eyed moment wobbling
down the rocky steepness on broken
bones slowly fearfully to hideous
concourse of gathering sorrows in the valley
will yet become in another year a lost

Christmas irretrievable in the heights
its exploding

Poetry: "The Casualties" by John Pepper Clark

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THE CASUALTIES.
to Chinua Achebe.

The casualties are not only those who are dead.
They are well out of it.
The casualties are not only those who are wounded,
Though they await burial by installment.
The casualties are not only those who have lost
Persons or property, hard as it is
To grope for a touch that some
May not know is not there.
The casualties are