Author: Raph Uwechue
Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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A Comment on the First Edition: THE SUNDAY TIMES (Lagos) "The most unimpassioned account, to date, of the Nigerian civil War...Reflections is a book for any shelf..."
Author: Raph Uwechue
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Author: Raph Uweche
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789780623111
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Author: Raph Uwechue
Publisher: London : O.I.T.H. International Publishers Limited
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Author: Alfred Obiora Uzokwe
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595263666
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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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.
Author: John J. Stremlau
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140087128X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447
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Biafra's declaration of independence on May 30, 1967, precipitated a civil war with important implications for the territorial integrity of all newly independent African states. Allegations of genocide commanded the world's attention and brought forth unprecedented humanitarian intervention. This full account of the internationalization of that conflict draws on hitherto confidential records and more than two hundred interviews with foreign policymakers, including Yakubu Gowon and C. Odumegwu Ojukwu. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Ntieyong U. Akpan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317792327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
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First published in 1972. This volume includes a personal recounting of events during the Nigerian Civil War, by the author who was the Chief Secretary of the Government in Biafra 1967. The second edition includes a preface that answers questions about the author's warnings and lessons for the future Africa and his reflections on the disappearance of Nigeria from news and media since the war.
Author: Chinyere Egbe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This book is a captivating rendition of Dr. Egbe's personal and family experiences during the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970). It is equally an audacious contribution to the historiography of the Nigerian Civil War, not to mention a crash program in military history. Here, his detailed rebuttal of Brigadier Alabi's claim that the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage was the first time elephants were used in battle, comes to mind.Dr. Egbe presents harrowing experiences and close calls with the annihilation of his family. For example, after Dr. Egbe's siblings and their mother were tied up to be executed by Nigerian soldiers in May 1969, they were saved because the battalion commander who had sent them to arrest the family was their dad's schoolboy, sixteen years earlier. Dr. Egbe concludes that the leaders of Nigeria and Biafra precipitated a war for their selfish reasons and sacrificed the lives of the masses who had no say in the genesis of the war or its outcome. The leaders on both sides learned little or no lessons from the tragedy of the civil war.
Author: Allison Akene Ayida
Publisher:
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Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Author: Toyin Falola
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1847011446
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
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21 Female Participation in War and the Implication of Nationalism: The Postcolonial Disconnection in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra -- Select Bibliography -- Index
