Format:
1 online resource (429 pages)
ISBN:
9781793631121
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: The Power of Silence: Reflections on the Politics of Memorializing the Biafra War -- The Context -- War, History, and Memory -- Wartime Victims: The Igbo and the Biafran Experience -- Postwar Biafra -- Biafra War Narrative, Arts, and Representations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I: War, History, and Memory -- Chapter 1: Inhibitions to Speaking Out: Assessing Frederick Forsyth's Three Categories of Silent Witness in Biafra -- The Igbo and the War -- Frederick Forsyth -- Forsyth's Three Categories of Noninvolvement -- Bearing Witness to Atrocity -- The Cold War as Context -- British Support for Nigeria -- Conclusion: Biafra and the Unresponsive Bystander -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: The Catholic Church and the Postwar Rehabilitation and Reconstruction in Nigeria, 1970-1975 -- Unfulfilled Government Promises -- The Effects of These Antirehabilitation Measures -- The Initiatives of the Catholic Church -- Fact-Finding Tour of the Papal Delegates -- Fact-Finding Tour of the German Caritas -- The Reorganization of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria in Lagos -- Postwar Developmental, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction Programs -- Hopeville -- The Repatriation and Rehabilitation of Biafran Children -- Aid to Orphanages and Children's Shelter Homes -- The Cost of the Repatriation and Rehabilitation Exercise -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: The Inseparable Ties with the Past: Indirect Colonial Rule in Nigeria and the Biafra War -- The Biafra War (1967-1970) -- "Unarchived Histories" of the Biafra War -- The Discourse of Dual Mandate and Indirect Colonial Rule -- The Inseparable Ties -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Biafran Enclaves and the Militia Activities in Mid-Western Nigeria, 1967-1970.
Content:
This book analyzes the impact of the Nigeria-Biafra war on the Igbo, the failure of the reconstruction and reconciliation effort in the post-war period, and the politics of exclusion of the memory of the war in public discourse in Nigeria, arguing that the war had lasting consequences for the socio-political developments in the post-war period.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781793631114
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe New perspectives on the Nigeria-Biafra war Lanham : Lexington Books, 2021 ISBN 9781793631114
Language:
English
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Bartrop, Paul R. 1955-
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