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The Asaba Massacre
Author | : S. Elizabeth Bird,Fraser M. Ottanelli |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2017-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107140783 |
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An interdisciplinary study of the Asaba massacre, re-examining Nigerian history and enriching the understanding of post-conflict trauma and memory construction.
Blood on the Niger
Author | : Emma Okocha |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Genocide |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105073085941 |
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Surviving Biafra
Author | : S. Elizabeth Bird,Rosina Umelo |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2018-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781787381650 |
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In 1961, Rosina 'Rose' Martin married John Umelo, a young Nigerian she met on a London Tube station platform, eventually moving to Nigeria with him and their children. As Rose taught Classics in Enugu, they found themselves caught up in Nigeria's Civil War, which followed the 1967 secession of Eastern Nigeria--now named Biafra. The family fled to John's ancestral village, then moved from place to place as the war closed in. When it ended in 1970, up to 2 million had died, most from starvation. Rose ('worse off than some, better off than many') had kept notes, capturing the reality of living in Biafra--from excitement in the beginning to despair towards the end. Immediately after the war, Rose turned her notes into a narrative that described the ingenious ways Biafrans made do, still hoping for victory while their territory shrank and children starved by the thousand. Now anthropologist S. Elizabeth Bird contextualizes Rose's story, providing background on the progress of the war and international reaction to it. Edited and annotated, Rose's vivid account of life as a Biafran 'Nigerwife' offers a fresh, new look at hope and survival through a brutal war.
A History of the Republic of Biafra
Author | : Samuel Fury Childs Daly |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2020-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108840767 |
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An accessible study demonstrating how the conditions of the Nigerian Civil War paved the way for the country's long experience of crime.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Author | : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
Publsiher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 2010-10-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780307373540 |
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With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the “21st century daughter” of Chinua Achebe. Now, in her masterly, haunting new novel, she recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria during the 1960s. With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Adichie weaves together the lives of five characters caught up in the extraordinary tumult of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Ugwu is houseboy to Odenigbo, a university professor who sends him to school, and in whose living room Ugwu hears voices full of revolutionary zeal. Odenigbo’s beautiful mistress, Olanna, a sociology teacher, is running away from her parents’ world of wealth and excess; Kainene, her urbane twin, is taking over their father’s business; and Kainene’s English lover, Richard, forms a bridge between their two worlds. As we follow these intertwined lives through a military coup, the Biafran secession and the subsequent war, Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise, and intimately, the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place. Epic, ambitious and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a more powerful, dramatic and intensely emotional picture of modern Africa than any we have had before.
The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism
Author | : Lasse Heerten |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2017-09-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107111806 |
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A global history of 'Biafra', providing a new explanation for the ascendance of humanitarianism in a postcolonial world.
There Was a Country
Author | : Chinua Achebe |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2012-10-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781101595985 |
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From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart—a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Decades in the making, There Was a Country is a towering account of one of modern Africa’s most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe’s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age.
Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide
Author | : A. Dirk Moses,Lasse Heerten |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2017-07-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781351858656 |
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This volume is the first, comprehensive and balanced historical account of the momentous Nigeria-Biafra war. It offers a multi-perspectival treatment of the conflict that explores issues such as local experiences of victims, the massive relief campaigns by humanitarian NGOs and international organizations like the Red Cross, the actions of foreign powers with interests in the conflict, and the significance of the international public sphere, in which the propaganda and public relations war about the question of genocide was waged.