There is no porridge in the pot

' "This child! You will kill us. SHH!"
I don't want to kill us, so I keep quiet. I am very afraid now. What are we running away from? What is the loud noise? Where is the pot? The Pot. Even after I washed it, I know there is no Porridge in the pot. '

Biafra, officially the Republic of Biafra, was a secessionist state in West Africa which existed from 30 May 1967 to January 1970; it was made up of the states in the Eastern Region of Nigeria. The civil war that ensued from between the Biafran forces and the Nigerian's is know as on of the greatest human rights tragedies in west Africa.
There is no porridge in the pot captures the calm before the storm through the eyes of a child of the era.