This article connects two forms of coercion which are rarely analysed together in social and war studies. This is the experience of forced migrant labour and the experience of being soldier. Nigerians guide them, and especially those of the igbo ethnic group, were subjected to these two forms of coercion in the 60s, which for the many men who experienced them were linked to each other. Recruitment for agricultural work on the island of Fernando Po, in Spanish Guinea, since the 30s or the 60s and recruitment to the army of the secessionist Republic of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War (l 967-1970) were contemporaneous phenomena, following both very difficult patterns of violence and arbitrariness. Analysing both episodes of the historical East Nigeria in a single interpretative framework suggests that, for those involved, the line between military service and forced labour was tenuous. Aquest article Connecta dues formes de coaccio vegades són analitzades together in the Study Socials i of the war. It is a track of the experimència de la mà d’obra forçosa Emigrant i l’experimentència de ser SolDat. ELS nigerians orientals, i specialment els del grup ètnic igbo, will be sotmesos a les dues formes de coerció durant els ANYS 60, which will be linked to each other in the mould legs that are experienced by them. The prisoner per a treballs of Fernando Po, part of the Espanyola Guinea, des dels ANYS 30 als 60 als, and the prisoner DINS de l’exèrcit of the secessionist Republic of Biafra durant la Civil War (1967-1970) van ser Fets contemporanis with each other, in the two cases of employers Molt semblants de violència i arbitrarietat. Analitzar ambdós episodis from the History of Eastern Nigèria in a marc interpretatiu suggereix suggereix, which per aquells implicats the lynnia between the military Servei i el Treball forçat is being Molt borrosa.