Author: Obafemi Awolowo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Awo on the Nigerian Civil War
Author: Obafemi Awolowo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
My Command
Author: Olusegun Obasanjo
Publisher: East African Publishers
ISBN: 9789966250216
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher: East African Publishers
ISBN: 9789966250216
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A History of the Republic of Biafra
Author: Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108895956
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108895956
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
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.
There Was a Country
Author: Chinua Achebe
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101595981
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101595981
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
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.
The Nigeria-Biafra War
Author:
Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621968235
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621968235
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Surviving in Biafra
Author: Alfred Obiora Uzokwe
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595263666
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
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.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595263666
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
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.
Awo
Author: Obafemi Awolowo
Publisher: Cambridge : University Press
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Chief Obafemi Awolowo (1909-1987) was the leader of Nigeria's Action Group party and the first indigenous Premier of Western Nigeria. He campaigned heavily for developmental change and implemented free primary education and child healthcare policies across the Western Region. Awolowo began work on this autobiography in 1957, at a time when Nigeria's request for self-government had been refused. The work was completed in 1960, the year Nigeria gained its long-awaited independence. Accordingly, this autobiography is dedicated to a 'new and free Nigeria', with the trust that its people will enjoy 'a more abundant life'. This determined, self-made leader here describes his youth, education and politics. He writes of his hope that this tale of stubborn perseverance can become 'a source of inspiration' in itself, and indeed, this account will fascinate anyone with an interest in Africa, the history and politics of Western Nigeria, or a love of insightful political autobiography. (Amazon website).
Publisher: Cambridge : University Press
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Chief Obafemi Awolowo (1909-1987) was the leader of Nigeria's Action Group party and the first indigenous Premier of Western Nigeria. He campaigned heavily for developmental change and implemented free primary education and child healthcare policies across the Western Region. Awolowo began work on this autobiography in 1957, at a time when Nigeria's request for self-government had been refused. The work was completed in 1960, the year Nigeria gained its long-awaited independence. Accordingly, this autobiography is dedicated to a 'new and free Nigeria', with the trust that its people will enjoy 'a more abundant life'. This determined, self-made leader here describes his youth, education and politics. He writes of his hope that this tale of stubborn perseverance can become 'a source of inspiration' in itself, and indeed, this account will fascinate anyone with an interest in Africa, the history and politics of Western Nigeria, or a love of insightful political autobiography. (Amazon website).
Path to Nigerian Freedom
Author: Obafemi Awolowo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria
Author: Wale Adebanwi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107054222
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This book investigates the dynamics and challenges of ethnicity and elite politics in Nigeria.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107054222
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This book investigates the dynamics and challenges of ethnicity and elite politics in Nigeria.
Death of a Myth
Author: Femi Ojo-Ade
Publisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9780865437906
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Nigeria, a country of immense natural and human resources, with the potential to actually realise the too-often meaningless notion of independence, has suffered from decades of debilitating military leadership. Covering a period of five years in the unfolding tragicomedy of Africa's most populous country, this book addresses various issues concerning Nigeria in a style filled with dark humour, pungency and perspicacity. Ojo-Ade offers a full understanding of the Nigerian dilemma and its hope for a better future.
Publisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9780865437906
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Nigeria, a country of immense natural and human resources, with the potential to actually realise the too-often meaningless notion of independence, has suffered from decades of debilitating military leadership. Covering a period of five years in the unfolding tragicomedy of Africa's most populous country, this book addresses various issues concerning Nigeria in a style filled with dark humour, pungency and perspicacity. Ojo-Ade offers a full understanding of the Nigerian dilemma and its hope for a better future.