Ofia Became Home: A novel based on the true story of displaced Igbere people"Ala Igbere ejegh ekwo." (The Igbere land will shield.) Igbere saying On March 30, 1969, the Nigerian army overran Igbere, one of a handful of Biafran communities still free after two years of the Nigeria Biafra War. A sudden murderous invasion forced the Igbere people, already teetering on the brink of starvation, to flee their ancestral homes and seek refuge in the only places they could their own forests and farmlands. There, and for nine months,