Author : Ben Gbulie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : UCAL:B3685202
The Fall of Biafra
Ben Gbulie
The Fall Of Biafra
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The Fall of Biafra
Ifeanyi Anagbogu
Author : Ifeanyi Anagbogu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114694800
The Fall of Biafra by Ifeanyi Anagbogu Pdf
A History of the Republic of Biafra
Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Author : Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108840767
A History of the Republic of Biafra by Samuel Fury Childs Daly Pdf
An accessible study demonstrating how the conditions of the Nigerian Civil War paved the way for the country's long experience of crime.
Surviving in Biafra
Alfred Obiora Uzokwe
Author : Alfred Obiora Uzokwe
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595263660
Surviving in Biafra by Alfred Obiora Uzokwe Pdf
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.
Nigeria
Arthur Agwuncha Nwankwo
Author : Arthur Agwuncha Nwankwo
Publisher : David Philip Publishers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070863787
Nigeria by Arthur Agwuncha Nwankwo Pdf
The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism
Lasse Heerten
Author : Lasse Heerten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107111806
The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism by Lasse Heerten Pdf
A global history of 'Biafra', providing a new explanation for the ascendance of humanitarianism in a postcolonial world.
There Was a Country
Chinua Achebe
Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101595985
There Was a Country by Chinua Achebe Pdf
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.
There Was a Country
Chinua Achebe
Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141973678
There Was a Country by Chinua Achebe Pdf
From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart comes this long-awaited memoir recalling Chinua Achebe's personal experiences of and reflections on the Biafran War, one of Nigeria's most tragic civil wars Chinua Achebe, the author of Things Fall Apart, was a writer whose moral courage and storytelling gifts have left an enduring stamp on world literature. There Was a Country was his long-awaited account of coming of age during the defining experience of his life: the Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War of 1967-1970. It became infamous around the world for its impact on the Biafrans, who were starved to death by the Nigerian government in one of the twentieth century's greatest humanitarian disasters. Caught up in the atrocities were Chinua Achebe and his young family. Achebe, already a world-renowned novelist, served his Biafran homeland as a roving cultural ambassador, witnessing the war's full horror first-hand. Immediately after the war, he took an academic post in the United States, and for over forty years he maintained a considered silence on those terrible years, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. After years in the making There Was A Country presents his towering reckoning with one of modern Africa's most fateful experiences, both as he lived it and came to understand it. Marrying history and memoir, with the author's poetry woven throughout, There Was a Country is a distillation of vivid observation and considered research and reflection. It relates Nigeria's birth pangs in the context of Achebe's own development as a man and a writer, and examines the role of the artist in times of war. Reviews: 'No writer is better placed than Chinua Achebe to tell the story of the Nigerian Biafran war ... [The book] makes you pine for the likes of Achebe to govern ... We have in There Was a Country an elegy from a master storyteller who has witnessed the undulating fortunes of a nation' Noo Saro-Wiwa, Guardian 'Chinua Achebe's history of Biafra is a meditation on the condition of freedom. It has the tense narrative grip of the best fiction. It is also a revelatory entry into the intimate character of the writer's brilliant mind and bold spirit. Achebe has created here a new genre of literature' Nadine Gordimer 'Part-history, part-memoir, [Achebe's] moving account of the war is laced with anger, but there is also an abiding tone of regret for what Nigeria might have been without conflict and mismanagement' Sunday Times About the author: Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930. He published novels, short stories, essays, and children's books. His volume of poetry, Christmas in Biafra, was the joint winner of the first Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Of his novels, Arrow of God won the New Statesman-Jock Campbell Award, and Anthills of the Savannah was a finalist for the 1987 Booker Prize. Things Fall Apart, Achebe's masterpiece, has been published in fifty different languages and has sold more than ten million copies. Achebe lectured widely, receiving many honors from around the world. He was the recipient of the Nigerian National Merit Award, Nigeria's highest award for intellectual achievement. In 2007, he won the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2013.
The Biafra Story
Frederick Forsyth
Author : Frederick Forsyth
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848846067
The Biafra Story by Frederick Forsyth Pdf
A fearless act of journalism in 1960s Nigeria and the true story behind the international bestselling novel The Dogs of War. The Nigerian civil war of the late 1960s was one of the first occasions when Western consciences were awakened and deeply affronted by the level of suffering and the scale of atrocity being played out in the African continent. This was thanks not just to advances in communication technology but to the courage and journalistic skills of foreign correspondents like Frederick Forsyth, who had already earned an enviable reputation for tenacity and accuracy working for Reuters and the BBC. In The Biafra Story, Forsyth reveals the depth of the British Government’s active involvement in the conflict—information which many in power would have preferred to remain secret. General Gowon’s genocide of the Biafran people was facilitated by a ready supply of British arms and advice. Still tragically relevant in its depiction of global affairs, this powerful book also launched Frederick Forsyth to literary stardom by providing him with the background material for The Dogs of War. The dramatic events and shocking political exposures, all delivered with Forsyth’s bold and perceptive style, makes The Biafra Story a compelling lesson in courage.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307373540
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Pdf
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.
Nigeria's Five Majors
Ben Gbulie
Author : Ben Gbulie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : UVA:X000826696
Nigeria's Five Majors by Ben Gbulie Pdf
Land of the Rising Sun
Dr. Ngozi M. Obi
Author : Dr. Ngozi M. Obi
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524688141
Land of the Rising Sun by Dr. Ngozi M. Obi Pdf
Most people have never heard of Biafra or the war that nullified its birth and impending existence as a country. But those who lived the war still feel the sting and stigma of their wartime experiences. Knowing the history of a people helps one to understand them, giving rise to compassion rather than condemnation or alienation. This is also true for a people’s posterity to ensure negative history never repeats itself. Though the land’s rising sun is currently dimmed along its horizon, it will never be utterly extinguished and allowed to completely set because of the voices of those still crying out from it. Read on to discover the indigene experience of wartime Biafra through the eyes of a young nurse, chronicled in a historical fiction tribute.
Christmas in Biafra, and Other Poems
Chinua Achebe
Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015012168103
Christmas in Biafra, and Other Poems by Chinua Achebe Pdf
Biafra
Peter Baxter
Author : Peter Baxter
Publisher : Helion and Company
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781909982369
Biafra by Peter Baxter Pdf
Nigeria was a unique concept in the formation of modern Africa. It began life as a highly lucrative if climatically challenging holding of the Royal Niger Company, a British Chartered Company under the control of Victorian capitalist Sir George Taubman Goldie. It was handed over to indigenous rule in 1960 with the best of intentions and a profound hope on the part of the British Crown that it would become the poster child of successful political transition in Africa. It did not. One of the signature failures of imperial strategists at the turn of the 19th century was to take little if any account of the traditional demographics of the territories and societies that were subdivided, and often joined together, into spheres of foreign influence, later evolving into colonies, and finally into nation states. Many of the signature crises in postcolonial Africa have owed their origins to this very phenomenon: incompatible and mutually antagonistic tribal and ethnic groupings forced to cohabit within the indivisible precincts of political geography. Congo, Rwanda/Burundi, Sudan and many others have suffered ongoing attrition within their borders as historic enmities surge and boil in restless and ongoing violence. Such was the case with Nigeria in the post-independence period. The traditions and practices of the Islamic north and the Christian/Animist south, and even within the multiplicity of ethnic division in the south itself, proved to be impossible to reconcile. The result was an immediate centrifuge away from the center, complicated by the vast infusion of oil revenues and the inevitable explosion of corruption that followed. All of this created the alchemy of civil war and genocide, which erupted into violence in 1967 as the eastern region of Nigeria attempted to secede. The war that followed shocked the conscience of the world, and revealed for the first time the true depth of incompatibility of the four partners in the Nigerian federation. This book traces the early history of Nigeria from inception to civil war, and the complex events that defined the conflict in Biafra, revealing how and why this awful event played out, and the scars that it has since left on the psyche of the disunited federation that has continued to exist in the aftermath.
Biafra Revisited
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe
Author : Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : UCSC:32106018918349
Biafra Revisited by Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe Pdf
This text demonstrates that the Biafran War, 1967-1970, was the second phase of the Igbo genocide, following the initial massacre of 100,000 Igbo across the principal towns and cities of northern Nigeria. It shows how the slaughter was sanctioned and organised by the State, with its leading institutions - the military, police, religious, media and academia - implicated therein.