| Childhood Photos |
| Key stages of my growing up, from when I was born in the ancient city of Kaduna in northern Nigeria, to my pre-teen years in Enugu, eastern Nigeria. |
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| Kaduna, northern Nigeria, 1961. I was born in this ancient city on November. In both pictures I am wearing a dress because my mother hoped that I would be a girl and prepared for the arrival of a daughter. The young woman in the picture to the right is my mother. |
| Enugu, then East Central State, 1971. I was in Elementary Five. |
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| England, 1962/63. I am coming from the rear, in red. My immediate older brother, Charles and our mother are walking ahead. My father was on an army officers course at the time. |
| Enugu, 1972, just before I became a secondary school student. |
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| Left, April 24 1972, in Enugu, Nigeria. My younger sister, Philippa, was celebrating her second birthday. From left to right are: me; Valentine, my oldest brother; the celebrant, Philippa; and Charles, my direct older brother. |
| My brother, Charles (to the left) and I in the Aran Islands, Ireland, during the summer of 1970. The Nigerian-Biafran War had ended in January of that year and Ireland provided refuge for Biafran children and their families. |
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| Enugu, 1971. I am carrying my younger sister, Philippa, who was only one at the time. Face at right is that of my brother, Francis, who was six. |
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| Enugu, 1972. Left to right, Francis, Philippa, and I. |
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| Left to right, Francis and I, Enugu, 1972. |
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