- Series
- The Routledge global 1960s and 1970s
Routledge global 1960s and 1970s.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2018
- Locale
- Nigeria
Biafra
- Contents
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Nigeria-Biafra war: postcolonial conflict and the question of genocide / Lasse Heerten and A. Dirk Moses
Section I. Genocide and the Biafran bid for self-determination
Irreconcilable narratives: Biafra, Nigeria and arguments about genocide, 1966-70 / Douglas Anthony
Marketing genocide: Biafran propaganda strategies during the Nigerian civil war, 1967-1970 / Roy Doron
Case against Victor Banjo: legal process and the governance of Biafra / Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Biafran secession and the limits of self-determination / Brad Simpson
Section II. A global event
UK and "genocide" in Biafra / Karen E. Smith
France and the Nigerian civil war, 1967-1970 / Christopher Griffin
Israel, Nigeria, and the Biafra civil war 1967-1970 / Zach Levey
Strange bedfellows: an unlikely alliance between the Soviet Union and Nigeria during the Biafran war / Maxim Matusevich
West German sympathy for Biafra, 1967-1970: actors, perceptions and motives / Florian Hannig
Dealing with "genocide": the ICRC and the UN during the Nigeria-Biafra war, 1967-1970 / Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps
Humanitarian encounters: Biafra, NGOs and imaginings of the Third World in Britain and Ireland, 1967-70 / Kevin O'Sullivan
"And starvation is the grim reaper": the American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive and the genocide question during the Nigerian civil war, 1968-1970 / Brian McNeil
"Black America cares": the response of African Americans to civil war and "genocide" in Nigeria, 1967-1970 / James Farquharson
Section III. Trauma and memory
Women and the Biafra-Nigeria war / Gloria Chuku
"Biafra of the mind": MASSOB and the mobilization of history / Ike Okonta
Memory as social burden: collective remembrance of the Biafran war and imaginations of socio-political marginalization in contemporary Nigeria / Edlyne Anugwom
Asaba massacre and the Nigerian civil war: reclaiming hidden history / S. Elizabeth Bird and Fraser Ottanelli
Imagined nations and imaginary Nigeria: Chinua Achebe's quest for a country / Mpalive-Hangson Msiska.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Moses, A. Dirk, editor.
Heerten, Lasse, editor.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nigeria-Biafra war: postcolonial conflict and the question of genocide / Lasse Heerten and A. Dirk Moses -- Section I. Genocide and the Biafran bid for self-determination -- Irreconcilable narratives: Biafra, Nigeria and arguments about genocide, 1966-70 / Douglas Anthony -- Marketing genocide: Biafran propaganda strategies during the Nigerian civil war, 1967-1970 / Roy Doron -- Case against Victor Banjo: legal process and the governance of Biafra / Samuel Fury Childs Daly -- Biafran secession and the limits of self-determination / Brad Simpson -- Section II. A global event -- UK and "genocide" in Biafra / Karen E. Smith -- France and the Nigerian civil war, 1967-1970 / Christopher Griffin -- Israel, Nigeria, and the Biafra civil war 1967-1970 / Zach Levey -- Strange bedfellows: an unlikely alliance between the Soviet Union and Nigeria during the Biafran war / Maxim Matusevich -- West German sympathy for Biafra, 1967-1970: actors, perceptions and motives / Florian Hannig -- Dealing with "genocide": the ICRC and the UN during the Nigeria-Biafra war, 1967-1970 / Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps -- Humanitarian encounters: Biafra, NGOs and imaginings of the Third World in Britain and Ireland, 1967-70 / Kevin O'Sullivan -- "And starvation is the grim reaper": the American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive and the genocide question during the Nigerian civil war, 1968-1970 / Brian McNeil -- "Black America cares": the response of African Americans to civil war and "genocide" in Nigeria, 1967-1970 / James Farquharson -- Section III. Trauma and memory -- Women and the Biafra-Nigeria war / Gloria Chuku -- "Biafra of the mind": MASSOB and the mobilization of history / Ike Okonta -- Memory as social burden: collective remembrance of the Biafran war and imaginations of socio-political marginalization in contemporary Nigeria / Edlyne Anugwom -- Asaba massacre and the Nigerian civil war: reclaiming hidden history / S. Elizabeth Bird and Fraser Ottanelli -- Imagined nations and imaginary Nigeria: Chinua Achebe's quest for a country / Mpalive-Hangson Msiska.
