INSANITY WAS COMMON DURING THAT PERIOD

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  The Forest Dames

  DEAR FRIENDS,
  MAY INSANITY NEVER BE YOUR PORTION! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON!
  
  
  An obviously insane young man positioned himself at one corner dancing very joyously, oblivious of the hundreds of eyes watching him, and those who were entertained by his dexterously apt dance steps. The man felt as free as the air and danced as if he was created for that purpose only. When he got tired, he went to the area where the food for the funeral was being prepared and began to lurk around.
  ...
  “Evagri, what do you want?” One of the cooks asked. Evagri pointed at the pot of food.
  “Have you finished dancing?”
  He nodded.
  “I did not see you dance. Will you dance for me later?”
  He pointed at the pot of food again.
  
  The woman sensing that the man was hungry, quickly gave him some food. Evegri kept his plate of food on the ground and went to the area where the drinks were stored. All he did was to stretch out his hand and the person in charge gave him a bottle of soft drink. Evagri returned to the spot where he had left his plate of food and sat on the ground, pulling his food and drink closer to him in between his legs. He had applied his teeth to the cork and got it off the top of the soft dink bottle. After eating and drinking, he lay down on the ground just beside the empty plate and bottle. He had consumed a large quantity of food. Without worries or anxieties, Evagri, in a matter of minutes, slept off right there. No one disturbed him. They were all used to him and his ways.
  
  
  Culled from "The Forest Dames" true Life Biafran experience. The book is available at Silverbird Galleria bookshop, Abuja; Quintessence, Falomo Shopping Complex, Awolowo road Ikoyi, Lagos and Debonair bookstores, Herbert Macaulay Way, Sabo Yaba, Lagos. Also at Booksellers shops (opposite Biobak), Garki 2, Abuja; and Pen and pages, Wuse 2 Abuja. Also at amazon.com/theforestdames, Barnes and Noble, AuthorHouse and other online marketers.

It pained us. She was one of the forest dames.

 

This is a true story. I know the girl in question. She is still alive and can be reached. Read and join the "No more war" campaign.

 

The Forest Dames

 

“Okay. Sofuruchi came home sometime ago and narrated her experience with the Benedanja soldier who took her to his homeland. Sure you heard that after all the hiding she was eventually captured towards the end of the war.”
 

“Oh yes, we heard it. It really pained me but it only ended up as one of those pains? At least the man didn’t just dump her when leaving. He took her to his hometown.”
 

"E-e-wo o, the soldier, Sunday, had taken Sofuru to his hometown in Benedanja, as his wife, at the end of the war but she was rejected on the grounds that she was not only a non-indigene, but also an Edanja. Her abductor had to pick another woman from among his people. Sofuru was already pregnant but that did not matter to her ‘husband’s’ people, who considered it great kindness to allow her to stay on, as the man’s other wife. Sofuru remained there and had since had children for the man.”


Culled from "The Forest Dames" true Life Biafran experience. The book is available at Silverbird Galleria bookshop, Abuja; Quintessence, Falomo Shopping Complex, Awolowo road Ikoyi, Lagos and Debonair bookstores, Herbert Macaulay Way, Sabo Yaba, Lagos. Also at Booksellers shops (opposite Biobak), Garki 2, Abuja; and Pen and pages, Wuse 2 Abuja. Also at amazon.com/theforestdames, Barnes and Noble, AuthorHouse and other online marketers.

FEMALE NIGERIA-BIAFRA WAR SURVIVOR LAMENTS

AdaOkere Agbasimalo-  Authur of The Forest Dames

“The Forest Dames”, published in 2012, is a true life account of what happened during the Nigeria-Biafra war of 1967-1970. While war raged at the battle ground, a lot transpired at the home front. I was a teenage girl then and found myself in the middle of the hell that Biafra, our Eldorado, was turned into. I experienced the elasticity of human suffering which brought me to the conclusion that from whichever way you look at it, war portends evil and its other name is suffering.

Always think ahead of your attackers

 Read a true life account of a survivor. Always think ahead of your attackers

 

All those efforts and devices did not stop the move to Okolochi, after mortar bombs had dropped ceaselessly on the people and their surroundings. Deze remembered how pandemonium had reigned, how people wailed, and how only a few people remembered to take cover due to heavy bombardment. The memory of Okolochi remained vivid, mainly because of Madam Rosa’s predicament. It did not happen in Okolochi alone.

            “Knock, knock” Ukoha tapped gently on his mother’s door.

            “Who’s that?” His mother whispered, trembling.

            “Ukoha, Ukoha, your son.”

            “Hey my God,” his mother trembled with fear. “Ukoha, where are you co…

            “Shh, mama, open the door but please bring me a wrappa, I am naked.”

“Ewei, Ukohaa, hmm,” she muttered, pulling out a wrappa from a pack.

Ukoha had just escaped from terror. He had, when pushed, leaped across his own grave and fled. They had stripped him naked before the exercise but he disappeared into the bush and found his way home after midnight. Ukoha lived to tell his own story.

"The Forest Dames" true Life Biafran experience. The book is available at Silverbird Galleria bookshop, Abuja; Quintessence, Falomo Shopping Complex, Awolowo road Ikoyi, Lagos and Debonair bookstores, Herbert Macaulay Way, Sabo Yaba, Lagos. Also at Booksellers shops (opposite Biobak), Garki 2, Abuja; and Pen and pages, Wuse 2 Abuja. Also at amazon.com/theforestdames, Barnes and Noble, AuthorHouse and other online marketers.

Biafra was Eldorado

Yes Biafra was Eldorado turned hell

And I am a Biafran war survivor, motivated to open a Survivors' blog to also motivate others and help stop further wars. 

Biafra was Eldorado, turned into hell. As a teenage girl, I lived in that hell and as an adult I documented my experience in a book - "The Forest Dames." You'll see people suffering and smiling in the book.