Postcolonial conflict and the question of genocide : the Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967-1970

Author(s)

• Moses, A. Dirk
• Heerten, Lasse

Bibliographic Information

Postcolonial conflict and the question of genocide : the Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967-1970

edited by A. Dirk Moses and Lasse Heerten

（The Routledge global 1960s and 1970s）

Routledge, 2018

• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. The 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 2. Irreconcilable narratives: Biafra, Nigeria and arguments about genocide, 1966-1970 Douglas Anthony 3. Marketing genocide: Biafran propaganda strategies during the Nigerian civil war, 1967-1970 Roy Doron 4. The case against Victor Banjo: legal process and the governance of Biafra Samuel Fury Childs Daly 5. The Biafran secession and the limits of self-determination Brad Simpson Section II - A global event 6. The UK and 'genocide' in Biafra Karen E. Smith 7. France and the Nigerian civil war, 1967-1970 Christopher Griffin 8. Israel, Nigeria, and the Biafra civil war 1967-1970 Zach Levey 9. Strange bedfellows: an unlikely alliance between the Soviet Union and Nigeria during the Biafran War Maxim Matusevich 10. West German sympathy for Biafra, 1967-1970: actors, perceptions and motives Florian Hannig 11. Dealing with 'genocide': the ICRC and the UN during the Nigeria-Biafra war, 1967-1970 Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps 12. Humanitarian encounters: Biafra, NGOs and imaginings of the Third World in Britain and Ireland, 1967-1970 Kevin O'Sullivan 13. '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 14. 'Black America cares': the response of African Americans to civil war and 'genocide' in Nigeria, 1967-1970 James Farquharson Section III - Trauma and memory 15. Women and the Biafra-Nigeria war Gloria Chuku 16. 'Biafra of the mind': MASSOB and the mobilization of history Ike Okonta 17. Memory as social burden: collective remembrance of the Biafran War and imaginations of socio-political marginalization in contemporary Nigeria Edlyne Anugwom 18. The Asaba massacre and the Nigerian civil war: reclaiming hidden history S. Elizabeth Bird and Fraser Ottanelli 19. Imagined nations and imaginary Nigeria: Chinua Achebe's quest for a country Mpalive-Hangson Msiska

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Details

• NCID: BB28318164
• ISBN:
  • 9780415347587
• LCCN: 2017004188
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 465 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DT515.836
  • DC23 : 966.9052
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Genocide -- Nigeria
  • LCSH : Nigeria -- History -- Civil War, 1967-1970
  • LCSH : Nigeria -- Ethnic relations
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB2774524X