Acknowledgement
Wole Soyinka
Testimonies such as these should become a kind of chain letter, hung permanently on the leaden conscience of the world.
Wole Soyinka, The Man Died: Prison Notes, 1972
Liz Bird Interviews the late Akunwata Sylvester Okocha
Liz Bird interviews the late Akunwata Sylvester Okocha in Asaba, 2009. Mr. Okocha was a senior civil servant in Benin before fleeing home to Asaba. He documented details of the massacres, and was later imprisoned in Lagos after trying to send information to the International Red Cross.
Credit: Professor S. Elizabeth Bird and Professor Fraser Ottanelli
Asaba Memorial Project (https://www.asabamemorial.org/)
