A mantra her father gave her during the Nigerian civil war when their family was torn apart has continued to shape her life choices and belief in social justice.

It narrates a childhood experience not in secessionist Biafra but being caught in the middle when the author's home city Benin was captured by Biafran soldiers.

Defend the Defenseless provides both an invaluable historical background and a candid account of the author's personal experience of the Biafran war with her family.

Behind the scene events that have never been revealed; letters and other documents; an epic love story destined to be; all link back to the Biafran war.

Up front and personal are some of the accounts including being the first Nigerian selected to give the Harvard commencement Graduate oration.