num_pages: 210
description: Fola Oyewole was one of the group of regular officers who it is claimed carried out the first coup against the Nigerian Civilian Government in 1966. Despite his strong denials that he was a member of this group he was imprisoned by General Ironsi when its leaders were arrested. Fola Oyewole, who is a Westerner, was imprisoned in the East but was released by Lt. Col Ojukwu when the Civil War began. He was arrested again when the war ended and held in detention; and was only released in October, 1974. This book tells how on his release by Ojukwu he found himself reluctantly involved fighting on the Biafran side. It shows what it was like being in the Biafran Army and details the history of the fighting, as he experienced it, during the three years from the beginning of the war until the final capitulation.
language: English
title: Reluctant rebel
publisher: R. Collings