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Author : S. Elizabeth Bird,Fraser M. Ottanelli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107140783
An interdisciplinary study of the Asaba massacre, re-examining Nigerian history and enriching the understanding of post-conflict trauma and memory construction.
Author : S. Elizabeth Bird,Fraser M. Ottanelli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1316506169
In October 1967, early in the Nigerian Civil War, government troops entered Asaba in pursuit of the retreating Biafran army, slaughtering thousands of civilians and leaving the town in ruins. News of the atrocity was suppressed by the Nigerian government, with the complicity of Britain, and its significance in the subsequent progress of that conflict was misunderstood. Drawing on archival sources on both sides of the Atlantic and interviews with survivors of the killing, pillaging and rape, as well as with high-ranking Nigerian military and political leaders, S. Elizabeth Bird and Fraser M. Ottanelli offer an interdisciplinary reconstruction of the history of the Asaba Massacre, redefining it as a pivotal point in the history of the war. Through this, they also explore the long afterlife of trauma, the reconstruction of memory and how it intersects with justice, and the task of reconciliation in a nation where a legacy of ethnic suspicion continues to reverberate.
Author : S. Elizabeth Bird,Fraser M. Ottanelli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108509466
In October 1967, early in the Nigerian Civil War, government troops entered Asaba in pursuit of the retreating Biafran army, slaughtering thousands of civilians and leaving the town in ruins. News of the atrocity was suppressed by the Nigerian government, with the complicity of Britain, and its significance in the subsequent progress of that conflict was misunderstood. Drawing on archival sources on both sides of the Atlantic and interviews with survivors of the killing, pillaging and rape, as well as with high-ranking Nigerian military and political leaders, S. Elizabeth Bird and Fraser M. Ottanelli offer an interdisciplinary reconstruction of the history of the Asaba Massacre, redefining it as a pivotal point in the history of the war. Through this, they also explore the long afterlife of trauma, the reconstruction of memory and how it intersects with justice, and the task of reconciliation in a nation where a legacy of ethnic suspicion continues to reverberate.
Author : Emma Okocha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Genocide
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073085941
Author : Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108840767
An accessible study demonstrating how the conditions of the Nigerian Civil War paved the way for the country's long experience of crime.
Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307373540
With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the “21st century daughter” of Chinua Achebe. Now, in her masterly, haunting new novel, she recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria during the 1960s. With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Adichie weaves together the lives of five characters caught up in the extraordinary tumult of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Ugwu is houseboy to Odenigbo, a university professor who sends him to school, and in whose living room Ugwu hears voices full of revolutionary zeal. Odenigbo’s beautiful mistress, Olanna, a sociology teacher, is running away from her parents’ world of wealth and excess; Kainene, her urbane twin, is taking over their father’s business; and Kainene’s English lover, Richard, forms a bridge between their two worlds. As we follow these intertwined lives through a military coup, the Biafran secession and the subsequent war, Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise, and intimately, the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place. Epic, ambitious and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a more powerful, dramatic and intensely emotional picture of modern Africa than any we have had before.
Author : Lasse Heerten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107111806
A global history of 'Biafra', providing a new explanation for the ascendance of humanitarianism in a postcolonial world.
Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101595985
From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart—a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Decades in the making, There Was a Country is a towering account of one of modern Africa’s most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe’s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age.
Author : A. Dirk Moses,Lasse Heerten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351858656
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.
Author : Bronwen Manby,Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1564322254
Attempts to Import Weapons
Author : Human Rights Watch
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 957 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781609808853
The best country-by-country assessment of human rights. The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe.
Author : Emeaba Emeaba
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798386023157
The Federal army's Second Division chases back the advancing Biafrans that had captured Ore. They got to Asaba and after emptying the Central bank vaults in the place, the Federal troop goes through Asaba singling out supposedly Ibo supporters and army-age young men to shoot, not as a military exercise but just for the sadism of it all. Finally they invited all the men and boys of Asaba and machine gun them all to death in a Final Solution manner, and then, bury them in mass graves.
Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143124030
From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart—a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Decades in the making, There Was a Country is a towering account of one of modern Africa’s most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe’s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age.
Author : Walter S. Zapotoczny Jr.
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Previously unpublished analysis of why and how the Italians foughtA look at the role the Italian Army played in North Africa as part of the Deutsches Afrika Korps (German Afrika Korps)In spite of poor leadership, the Italian soldier performed well against all odds in North AfricaProfusely illustrated with many rare and unpublished images ‘The German soldier has impressed the world, however, the Italian Bersagliere soldier has impressed the German soldier.’ Erin Rommel aka ‘The Desert Fox’ When most people think of the Italian Army in North Africa during the Second World War, they tend to believe that the average Italian soldier offered little resistance to the Allies before surrendering. Many suggest that the Italian Army performed in a cowardly manner during the war: the reality is not so simple. The question remains as to whether the Italians were cowards or victims of circumstance. While the Italian soldier’s commitment to the war was not as great as that of his German counterpart, many Italians fought bravely. The Italian Littorio and Ariete Divisions earned Allied admiration at Tobruk, Gazala and EI Alamein. The Italian Army played a significant role as part of the German Afrika Korps and made up a large portion of the Axis combat power in North Africa during 1941 and 1942. In the interest of determining how the Italian Army earned the reputation that it did, it is necessary to analyse why and how the Italians fought.
Author : Alan Maxwell Boisragon
Publisher : London : Methuen
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Benin
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120109892
