abstract:c. 30 million The most recent estimate is from the CIA 2012 World Factbook (entry for Nigeria), which gives "Igbo (Ibo) 18%" out of a Nigerian population of 170 million, corresponding to about 30 million.
Ojukwu, than a military governor, and his followers rejected plans for reconciliation following violence against the Igbopeople in the north and broke away.
Within months, Nigeria was engulfed in independent Africa's first humanitarian catastrophe: a war for the independence of Mr. Achebe's Igbo homeland that left one million people dead, most of them children who starved.