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Sasa U.K Nwoke, author of Corporal Nwafor
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The Author

Sasa U.K Nwoke was born in Ohafia, Abia State. He was a class-three student of Government Secondary School, Afikpo, when the war broke out, and on 28 January 1968, at the age of sixteen, he forced his way into the Biafra Army after several attempts to enlist. Trained as a gunner, he was posted to the armoured car Corporal Nwafor and fought through some of the fiercest sectors of the war, including seven weeks of daily battles on the Uzuakoli front.

After the war he continued his education overseas. He lives in Umuahia, Abia State.

The Book

Cover of Corporal Nwafor by Sasa U.K Nwoke

Corporal Nwafor is his war memoir, the account of the name he answered during the Nigeria–Biafra war. The name, he told Vanguard in 2019, has three parts: the gunner from Umuoji who, on 30 June 1968, fired the only 73mm bazooka available to his brigade and knocked out an advancing Saladin armoured car at Ugwu Nwasike, Ogidi, before losing his life in the fight that followed; the captured Saladin itself, rebuilt and renamed in his honour; and the crew who fought in it - among them the author, a sixteen-year-old gunner.

The armoured car Corporal Nwafor fought from Uzuakoli to Ikot Ekpene, from Okigwe to Port Harcourt and back to Owerri. The Saladin survives today at the War Museum, Umuahia.

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Videos

The full BBC documentary (English, 74 minutes): Sasa U.K Nwoke (Corporal Nwafor) and Godwin Alabi-Isama, who fought on opposite sides, recall the war in this BBC Africa Eye film. BBC News Africa on YouTube, June 2026.

The short Pidgin version (BBC News Pidgin): Sasa U.K Nwoke is among the Biafra war participants and survivors sharing their experiences in this documentary. Watch on Facebook (BBC News Pidgin).

The two veterans meet: Sasa U.K Nwoke and Godwin Alabi-Isama recall what they saw in the war, in this BBC interview clip (4 minutes).

Honoured by the Old Boys of Government Secondary School, Afikpo

Sasa U.K Nwoke at the honour event Sasa U.K Nwoke holding a framed certificate of honour, with members of the Old Boys association

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