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The tragedy of Civilian Major
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Fictional account of Uchenna Nweze, alias "Civilian Major", an "attack trader during the Biafra days. When the civil war ended he abetted and some soldiers who performed unfriendly acts against his...
Fictional account of Uchenna Nweze, alias "Civilian Major", an "attack trader during the Biafra days. When the civil war ended he abetted and some soldiers who performed unfriendly acts against his own town's people, and though this he made some money ...".
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- Creator
- Shakespeare C.N. Nwachukwu
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- Language
- English
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- Onitsha, Nigeria : Nwachukwu Africana-Books, [1972]
- [Onitsha, Nigeria] : [Do-Well Press]
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- 68 pages ; 22 cm
- OCLC
- ocm01354404
- Printer inferred from acknowledgements, page 4: "I thank Mr. M.C. Ohaejesi, managing director, Minaco (Nig.) Bookshops and Dowell [i.e. Do-Well] Printing Press, on whose intricacies I have been able to produce a book of this nature." Nwachukwu Africana-Books and Ohaejesi's Minaco Bookshops shared the address 13 Iweka Road, Onitsha.
- Issued in wrapper printed in red and black, printed by Appolos Bros. Press, Onitsha, with photographic cover illustrations and summary on back cover; cover price "5/- Net. (50 Kobos)". Decimal currency was instituted on 1 Jauary 1973; cf. price on title page, "5/- (25p.)", presumably printed before details of the new currency had been made public.
- Includes index "Some Ibo words which non-Ibo readers will come across are explained below in alaphabetic order" (pages 67-68).