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I know someone whose parents were in Nigeria in the late 60s and early 70s, she has a chilling tale of being at school during the Biafran was with a gun battle erupting around the classroom. Her slightly less chilling tale is the guessing game she and schoolfriends used to play on the way back to Britain when they changed planes in Lebanon - before they approached Beirut they had to predict which hotels were still standing on the corniche.