![]() Having purchased a ten-year-old Land Rover we had set out and successfully crossed the mighty Sahara Desert. We were four young men in our early twenties who had self financed this African adventure. Having lived under canvas for the past few months the prospect of sleeping in a real bed looked very promising indeed. He had sent us a message saying that if we were in the area to look him up and that we could stay with him for a few days. We had decided to honour the hospitality shown to us by one of our girlfriend's fathers who was an engineer on the new dam that was being built on the river Niger. Having crossed the Sahara in our beaten up Land Rover we were elated as we approached the small Nigerian town of Kainji. This is mainly a work of fiction but it is based on actual events that occurred! In the north of the country Fiat the giant Italian car and engineering company were building a dam on the river Niger. ![]() The Ibo's called their territory Biafra and as this area contained Nigeria's oil reserves tensions were running high. The Ibo's, a tribe that lived in the eastern region on Nigeria had broken away following the assassination of the Nigerian Premier. The year is 1968 and the country was in the midst of civil war.
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