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Title Postcolonial conflict and the question of genocide : the Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967-1970 / edited by A. Dirk Moses and Lasse Heerten
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (478 pages)
Series The Routledge Global 1960s and 1970s Series
Routledge global 1960s and 1970s.
Contents The Nigeria-Biafra War: postcolonial conflict and the question of Genocide / Lasse Heerten and A. Dirk Moses -- Irreconcilable narratives: Biafra, Nigeria and arguments about genocide, 1966-1970 / Douglas Anthony -- Marketing genocide: Biafran propaganda strategies during the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970 / Roy Doron-- The case against Victor Banjo: legal process and the governance of Biafra / Samuel Fury Childs Daly -- The Biafran secession and the limits of self-determination / Brad Simpson -- The 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, 1967-1970 / 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 -- Women and the Nigeria-Biafra 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 -- The 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
Summary "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."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Genocide -- Nigeria
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
HISTORY -- General.
Ethnic relations
Genocide
Biafrakonflikt
Völkermord
Ethnische Beziehungen
Nigeria -- History -- Civil War, 1967-1970.
Nigeria -- Ethnic relations
Nigeria
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Moses, A. Dirk, editor.
Heerten, Lasse, editor.
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