My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos. (Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala)

My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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