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Ikenna
He escapes from
their home in the North during the peak of the ethnic cleansing and joins his father's ethnic group in the East, knowing
that the violence has cut through every bond of inter-ethnic matrimony.
With his father dead, his sisters missing and his mother holed up with
her ethnic group in the North, he joins the rebel army.
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Captain Nwagu
Images of the brutal murder of his wife and daughters by irate Hausa mobs haunt
him every moment. He finds solace in the rebel army where he gets the
chance to vent his anger and fury on the advancing federal troops. Captain
Nwagu is a man whose judgement is heavily impaired by his disturbing
thirst for vengeance.
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Zainab
Zainab is a product of a marriage between a Hausa man and an Igbo
woman. At the age of three she moves to Igbo land with her mother who
is fed up with a turbulent marriage fraught with conflict and vehemently
opposed by both Igbo and Hausa families. When the violence escalates and
her mother disappears, apparantly a victim of the Northern massacre, she
feels vulnerable and defenceless. Despite her connection to the Igbo through
her mother, she goes into hiding for fear of reprisal attack from the
Igbo tribe.
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Aminu
When
he joins the federal troops with the hope of crushing the Igbo rebellion,
everything is set aside, including the fact his eldest sister is married to an
Igbo man. Aminu realises the complications and futility of
a civil war when his armoured column is wiped out and he is a hair's breadth
away from getting his head blown up by his nephew in the rebel army.
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