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Citadel Press, 176–79, 185

Clark, J. P., 28, 63, 74, 115

Cookey, S. J., 114

Corruption. See Nigeria

Coup of 1966, 63–72

Chinua and family flight, 67–71

Chinua hunted during, 67–68, 70

climate on the street after, 64–66

countercoup, 80–82, 95

Eastern Nigerians, flight to East, 83, 95, 97

Igbo, attacks upon after, 66–67, 69, 76–78, 80–82

in Lagos, failure of, 79–80

leaders of, 65, 79–80

and Man of the People, A, 63–64, 67

military governance following, 80

murders during/after, 64, 67, 68, 70, 71, 79, 81–83

Nigerian military, role in, 78–80

Cozens, A. B., 25

Cricket, 22–23

Cullen, Countee, 164

Currey, James, 112

Damas, Léon Gontran, 163

Dance of the Forest, A (Soyinka), 109

Danjuma, Theophilus Y., 81, 136

“Dead Men’s Path,” 33

Decree 8 (1967), 86–87

Decree No. 34 (1966), 80–81

De Gaulle, Charles, 101–2

Degema people, 150

Delauney, Maurice, 155