The 50th Anniversary Of The Biafran War

Men hold a portrait of Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu in Nnewi, Nigeria on Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012. The city where Biafra leader Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu lived is preparing for the burial of the civil war leader at his home here on Friday. Nigeria’s 1960s civil war, between the federal government and Ojukwu’s breakaway Republic of Biafra, killed 1 million people. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
Men hold a portrait of Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu in Nnewi, Nigeria on Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012. The city where Biafra leader Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu lived is preparing for the burial of the civil war leader at his home here on Friday. Nigeria's 1960s civil war, between the federal government and Ojukwu's breakaway Republic of Biafra, killed 1 million people. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
Men hold a portrait of Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu in Nnewi, Nigeria on Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012. The city where Biafra leader Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu lived is preparing for the burial of the civil war leader at his home here on Friday. Nigeria’s 1960s civil war, between the federal government and Ojukwu’s breakaway Republic of Biafra, killed 1 million people. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
Men hold a portrait of Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu in Nnewi, Nigeria on Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012. The city where Biafra leader Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu lived is preparing for the burial of the civil war leader at his home here on Friday. Nigeria's 1960s civil war, between the federal government and Ojukwu's breakaway Republic of Biafra, killed 1 million people. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

The 50th Anniversary Of The Biafran War

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The fight for a separatist republic in Nigeria, Biafra, ended 50 years ago. Worldview talks to a Chicago family who lived through it. We also hear from Dr. Kanayo Odeluga, a physician and Igbo community leader, as he plans a 50-year remembrance of the Biafra conflict and from Ugochi Nwaogwugwu, a first generation Igbo-American writer, musician and activist.