Author : Raph Uwechue
Publisher : Trafford on Demand Pub
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 35,85 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781412028066
A comment on the First Edition from Lagos' Sunday Times: "The most unimpassioned account, to date, of the Nigerian civil War...Reflections is a book for any shelf..."
Author : Raph Uwechue
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN :
A Comment on the First Edition: THE SUNDAY TIMES (Lagos) "The most unimpassioned account, to date, of the Nigerian civil War...Reflections is a book for any shelf..."
Author : John J. Stremlau
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 44,70 MB
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 140087128X
Biafra's declaration of independence on May 30, 1967, precipitated a civil war with important implications for the territorial integrity of all newly independent African states. Allegations of genocide commanded the world's attention and brought forth unprecedented humanitarian intervention. This full account of the internationalization of that conflict draws on hitherto confidential records and more than two hundred interviews with foreign policymakers, including Yakubu Gowon and C. Odumegwu Ojukwu. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Raph Uwechue
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,89 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Nigeria
ISBN :
Author : Alfred Obiora Uzokwe
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,84 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0595263666
In 1966, several waves of rioting in northern Nigeria culminated in the brutal massacre of thousands of easterners by their northern Nigerian counterparts. Sensing that their safety could no longer be guaranteed, the easterners fled to the eastern region and established an independent nation called Biafra. Refusing to accept her sovereignty, Nigeria waged a thirty-month war against Biafra, targeting air assaults at civilian locations, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of children, women, and the elderly. Nigeria used land and sea blockade to prevent relief food from reaching hungry masses in Biafra and thousands of children died from a form of malnutrition called kwashiorkor. At the end of it all in 1970, two million people had perished.
Author : Raph Uwechue
Publisher : London : O.I.T.H. International Publishers Limited
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Nigeria
ISBN :
Author : Ntieyong U. Akpan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1317792319
First published in 1972. This volume includes a personal recounting of events during the Nigerian Civil War, by the author who was the Chief Secretary of the Government in Biafra 1967. The second edition includes a preface that answers questions about the author's warnings and lessons for the future Africa and his reflections on the disappearance of Nigeria from news and media since the war.
Author : Lasse Heerten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 32,8 MB
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1107111803
A global history of 'Biafra', providing a new explanation for the ascendance of humanitarianism in a postcolonial world.
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 37,82 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1847011446
21 Female Participation in War and the Implication of Nationalism: The Postcolonial Disconnection in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Author : Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 17,77 MB
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1108895956
The Republic of Biafra lasted for less than three years, but the war over its secession would contort Nigeria for decades to come. Samuel Fury Childs Daly examines the history of the Nigerian Civil War and its aftermath from an uncommon vantage point – the courtroom. Wartime Biafra was glutted with firearms, wracked by famine, and administered by a government that buckled under the weight of the conflict. In these dangerous conditions, many people survived by engaging in fraud, extortion, and armed violence. When the fighting ended in 1970, these survival tactics endured, even though Biafra itself disappeared from the map. Based on research using an original archive of legal records and oral histories, Daly catalogues how people navigated conditions of extreme hardship on the war front, and shows how the conditions of the Nigerian Civil War paved the way for the country's long experience of crime that was to follow.
