Struggle for Control of the Hinterland of the Bight of Biafra is a tragic and harrowing tale of pain, plunder, and the abuse of military power levied on a total-war scale with the destruction of the peoples’ homes, the burning of their crops, the seizure or capture of their animals, and the arrest of the leading men against a small national resistance movement in the imperial age of the gunboat but also of courage by the defenders of the Igbo homeland in the face of a blizzard of lyddite, shrapnel, and case shot.

Struggle for Control of the Hinterland of the Bight of Biafra is a three-part series.
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Struggle for Control of the Hinterland of the Bight of Biafra: The Untold Story of the British Military Expedition to Igbo Land (1830-1930) Volume 1

This book tells the story of the people of Igbo at the middle of the nineteenth century, when Europe and Europeans held the dominant power over the lives and affairs of many people in Africa. This dominance, however, was never supposed to be total or absolute. Nevertheless, it managed to cast a constricting shadow on the day-to-day lives of the people using the overwhelming military and economic power at its disposal at a time when Africans were either recovering from five hundred years of stupor brought on by its own dark ages (AD 1100–1600) or the shock and paralysis that followed the Moroccan (Mohamedan) and Spanish-mercenary-assisted mayhem and chaos of 1591 against the African kingdoms of West Africa.

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