Surviving Biafra

In 1961, Rosina ''Rose'' Martin married John Umelo, a young Nigerian she met on a London Tube station platform, eventually moving to Nigeria with him and their children. As Rose taught Classics in Enugu, they found themselves caught up in Nigeria''s Civil War, which followed the 1967 secession of Eastern Nigeria--now named Biafra. The family fled to John''s ancestral village, then moved from place...