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They lay, several forlorn ethnic groups, over a vast land, while others migrated from unknown regions into the British-crafted Nigeria. But Helen, with a budding pregnancy and a son, suddenly found herself in a grim world when Ferdinand, her husband, was conscripted to fight a fierce civil war when things went awry between the amalgamated groups. Expectedly, Biafra came under heavy crush by the overwhelmingly larger and stronger federal might, bringing life to a nightmare for everybody in the secessionist region. But in one astounding feat, several federal soldiers perished when their troupe ran into a Biafran ambush. To finish the job, vengeful villagers went after the dizzily fleeing survivors and massacred them in cold blood. But when Helen found a wounded federal soldier hidden and imploring for help in the farm where she was eking out a living, then the pain of all that had been meted to Biafra, her unaccounted-for husband, the sub-human condition she had been subjected to which had cost her her pregnancy; she threw a quick glance at the machete in her hand. She didn´t know which to obey ... her head or heart?

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Author of Breed Of The Wild and Time Against Prejudice. Chidike Ejiofor´s literary works have been thought-provoking as they are fascinating. Although an Agriculturist by training and Landscape Horticulturist in practice, he has done extraneous works which include Feminism And The Man Of Today, and so on.

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