The BIAFRAN WAR (19671970) remembered over half a century laterSTERN Magazine The Black Scorpion "we will aim at everything even if it is not moving"TV Presenter Juliette Foster "an intense, emotional memoir. Black Gold Black Scorpion couldnt be timelier. George S Boughton was an oil engineer in Nigeria during the Biafran war and what emerges from this memoir is a withering indictment of governing elites and the destructive consequences of their outofcontrol behaviour. Around a million people starved to death or were killed in the fighting yet the news vacuum meant that Boughton and other expat workers were often in the dark about the true extent of what was going on. Black Gold Black Scorpion is a fascinating, firsthand account of how a nation at war with itself became a magnet for cold war politics as it sank into moral darkness".Recounted are the lives of a young oil engineer, his wife and newborn child, during the Biafran War, when they inadvertently lived through one of the worst episodes of African history. Working in an industry that has gone on to pollute massively with oil, theirs is a different story of Africa, oil and aid. The author describes the political elites and those, like Ojukwu and Adekunle, who fought them having himself been captured and detained, one to one, by the mythically ruthless Black Scorpion this, the strangest of events, enabling him to observe at close range the disintegration of a powerful personality.More especially, the authors and...

Binding: Paperback;146 pages; Publisher: George Boughton Publishing; Classification: N/A; Weight: 295.09 g; Dimensions: N/A

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