3The Nigerian Civil War – the Biafran war – had begun in 1967 when the eastern states of Nigeria unilaterally seceded from the republic, taking most of Nigeria’s oil reserves with them.
4Cesare di Cordato died in 1965, aged seventy-seven.
5A colleague in the English Literature Department.
6The nickname of the entirely bald Professor of English at Ikiri, Prof. Donald Camrose.
7LMS had bought his predecessor’s car when he arrived in 1965 – an Austin 1100.
8The Biafran leader, an Ibo.
9Harold Wilson was the then Prime Minister of Great Britain.