Examines key contemporary accounts of the civil war and a range of subsequent texts to reveal the ideas behind the conflict and how these frame the understandings of what took place and what it means for contemporary Nigeria.
Examines key contemporary accounts of the civil war and a range of subsequent texts to reveal the ideas behind the conflict and how these frame the understandings of what took place and what it means for contemporary Nigeria.
Scholarly Trends, Issues, and Themes: Introduction PART I ON THE HISTORY OF THE NIGERIA BIAFRA WAR Toyin Falola Scholarly Trends, Issues, and Themes: Introduction PART I ON THE HISTORY OF THE NIGERIA BIAFRA WAR Ogechukwu Ezekwem Background to the Nigerian Civil War G.N. Uzoigwe Connecting Theory with Reality: Understanding the Causes of the Nigeria Biafra War Ogechi E. Anyanwu The Ahiara Declaration and the Fate of Biafra in a Postcolonial/Bi Polar World Order Raphael Chijioke Njoku The Ahiara Declaration: Polemics and Politics PART II CRITICAL DEBATES ON THE NIGERIAN CRISIS Austine Okwu Beyond the Blame Game: Theorizing the Nigeria Biafra War Bukola Oyeniyi Confronting the Challenges of Nationhood in Pre Biafra Texts: Newspaper Narratives on the Eve of War Wale Adebanwi Literary Separatism: Ethnic Balkanization in Nigeria Biafra War Literature Akachi Odoemene Local Writers and Commitments to Ethnic Sentiments Part III THE WAR IN FICTION, MEMOIR & IMAGINATION Olukunle Ojeleye Memoirs and the Question of Objectivity: Revisiting Alexander Madiebos' The Nigerian Revolution & the Biafran War & Robert Colliss's Nigeria in Conflict Christian Chukwuma Opata "War is War": Recreating the Dreams and Nightmares of the Nigeria Biafra War through the Eyes of Ken Saro Wiwa's Sozaboy Cyril I. Obi First, There Was a Country, Then There Wasn't: Reflections on Achebe's There was a Country Biodun Jeyifo Ethnic Minorities and the Biafran National Imaginary in Chukwuemeka Ike's Sunset at Dawnand Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun Meredith Coffey Biafra in the Irish Imagination: War and Famine in Banville's An End to Flight and Forristal's Black Man's Country Fiona Bateman Magical Realism or Science Fiction: The Nigerian Civil War and Ali Mazrui's The Trial of Christopher Okigbo Alabi Adetayo Biafra, an Impractical Mission? Revisiting S.O. Mezu's Behind the Rising Sun and I.N.C. Aniebo's The Anonymity of SacrificeOde Ogede Neo Colonialism, Biafra and the Causes of War as Imagined in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra PART IV LOCATING GENDER IN NIGERIA BIAFRA WAR LITERATURE Françoise Ugochukwu No, This is Not Redemption: The Biafra War Legacy in Chris Abani's Graceland PART IV LOCATING GENDER IN NIGERIA BIAFRA WAR LITERATURE Hugh Hodges Gender and the Construction of the Nigeria Biafra War Scholarship Egodi Uchendu What is the Country? Reimagining National Space in Women's Writing on the Nigeria Biafra War Jane Bryce Female Participation in War and the Implication of Nationalism: The Postcolonial Disconnection in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra Ofure O.M. Aito Select Bibliography
Scholarly Trends, Issues, and Themes: Introduction PART I ON THE HISTORY OF THE NIGERIA BIAFRA WAR Toyin Falola Scholarly Trends, Issues, and Themes: Introduction PART I ON THE HISTORY OF THE NIGERIA BIAFRA WAR Ogechukwu Ezekwem Background to the Nigerian Civil War G.N. Uzoigwe Connecting Theory with Reality: Understanding the Causes of the Nigeria Biafra War Ogechi E. Anyanwu The Ahiara Declaration and the Fate of Biafra in a Postcolonial/Bi Polar World Order Raphael Chijioke Njoku The Ahiara Declaration: Polemics and Politics PART II CRITICAL DEBATES ON THE NIGERIAN CRISIS Austine Okwu Beyond the Blame Game: Theorizing the Nigeria Biafra War Bukola Oyeniyi Confronting the Challenges of Nationhood in Pre Biafra Texts: Newspaper Narratives on the Eve of War Wale Adebanwi Literary Separatism: Ethnic Balkanization in Nigeria Biafra War Literature Akachi Odoemene Local Writers and Commitments to Ethnic Sentiments Part III THE WAR IN FICTION, MEMOIR & IMAGINATION Olukunle Ojeleye Memoirs and the Question of Objectivity: Revisiting Alexander Madiebos' The Nigerian Revolution & the Biafran War & Robert Colliss's Nigeria in Conflict Christian Chukwuma Opata "War is War": Recreating the Dreams and Nightmares of the Nigeria Biafra War through the Eyes of Ken Saro Wiwa's Sozaboy Cyril I. Obi First, There Was a Country, Then There Wasn't: Reflections on Achebe's There was a Country Biodun Jeyifo Ethnic Minorities and the Biafran National Imaginary in Chukwuemeka Ike's Sunset at Dawnand Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun Meredith Coffey Biafra in the Irish Imagination: War and Famine in Banville's An End to Flight and Forristal's Black Man's Country Fiona Bateman Magical Realism or Science Fiction: The Nigerian Civil War and Ali Mazrui's The Trial of Christopher Okigbo Alabi Adetayo Biafra, an Impractical Mission? Revisiting S.O. Mezu's Behind the Rising Sun and I.N.C. Aniebo's The Anonymity of SacrificeOde Ogede Neo Colonialism, Biafra and the Causes of War as Imagined in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra PART IV LOCATING GENDER IN NIGERIA BIAFRA WAR LITERATURE Françoise Ugochukwu No, This is Not Redemption: The Biafra War Legacy in Chris Abani's Graceland PART IV LOCATING GENDER IN NIGERIA BIAFRA WAR LITERATURE Hugh Hodges Gender and the Construction of the Nigeria Biafra War Scholarship Egodi Uchendu What is the Country? Reimagining National Space in Women's Writing on the Nigeria Biafra War Jane Bryce Female Participation in War and the Implication of Nationalism: The Postcolonial Disconnection in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra Ofure O.M. Aito Select Bibliography
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