C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, Nigerian colonel and politician, President of Biafra (d. 2011)
Chukwuemeka "Emeka" Odumegwu-Ojukwu (4 November 1933 – 26 November 2011) was a Nigerian military officer, statesman and politician who served as the military governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria in 1966 and the leader of the breakaway Republic of Biafra from 1967 to 1970. He was active as a politician from 1983 until his death in 2011 at the age of 78.