A Bradford on Avon woman has penned her memoir of what life was like as a newly- qualified teacher in Nigeria during the Biafra War in the late 1960s.

In 1968, Jane Adams went to work for Voluntary Service Overseas for 16 months teaching in a remote school in the city of Birnin Kebbi in north western Nigeria.

She has just published Bush Girl, her memoir of her experiences at the school during a turbulent period in Nigeria’s history.

Mrs Adams, 75, of Methuen Close, said: “The boys who attended were all boarders and the school was very poorly resourced.

“The BiafraWar was taking place in the south east and the boys came mostly from poor farming families.

“There was no electricity in the town, just a generator with limited use for the boys to study at night. But the boys were desperate to learn and change their lives.”

Mrs Adams, who has two children and is a grandmother of two, said: "It changed my life and I spent many years abroad teaching in Nigeria, Jordan and the Middle East.

"My mother was a traveller and loved to hear stories, so I wrote long letters to her and then found out she had kept them, so I used them for my book."

Bush Girl is self-published through Grosvenor House Publishing at £9.99, and is available from the Ex-Libris book shop in Bradford on Avon, other good bookshops and from Amazon, as well as an ebook version.