On Saturday, we went to Ojukwo's bunker in Umuahia.

For those of you who don't know about Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwo, he was the leader of the secessionists who tried to form a new country called the Republic of Biafria out of the eastern regions of Nigeria, in the late 1960s. The Nigerian government objected and a full scale war ensued which the Biafrans eventually lost. Umuahia became the capital after the fall of Enugu and Ojukwo and his inner circle set up base in a purpose built bunker in a rich man's back garden.

The facilities were somewhat better than what we endure at Amaudo, with running water feeding the kitchen and bathroom. Not a place for clausterophobics, mind, nor those with vertigo as we discovered whilst negotiating the vertical escape route by which we exited the bunker. If I was there in wartime, I think I'd take my chances against a Nigerian infiltrator rather than go up that ladder again!

Nevertheless, it was all worthwhile as I got to eat a lovely bowl of pepper soup in the museum's cafe afterwards. A photo of said pepper soup will be posted herein shortly. And, if you're all really good boys and girls, we might give you another picture of a goat.