Songs of Childhood: Biafran War Memories by Nimi Wariboko

This is a work of historical witness, exposing grief and trauma with sensitivity and poetic creativity. Wariboko, in lines of austere beauty, has produced Biafran war narratives of sublime emotional power. Songs of Childhood provides a fresh minority-group access to the brutal reality and human fragility of the 1967-70 Nigerian civil war. The stories are true, and this poetry collection differs from the familiar in the annals of war narratives.