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Jos Boy's Tale of the Nigerian Biafra War

Author : Onwusa Opiah
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1398443050
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book Jos Boy's Tale of the Nigerian Biafra War written by Onwusa Opiah and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jos Boy's Tale of the Nigerian Biafra War is written to bring true reconciliation and to show those who are currently leading many countries of the world that, “you gain nothing by violence.” There is honour in peaceful settlement of any dispute. Onwusa Opiah in this book postulates that an inclusive government with qualified people in positions of authority, in line with their potential, would enable Nigeria to achieve greatness. He defines patriotism as the ability to give up selfish interest for the general good of the people. It encompasses taking action devoid of nepotism and the success of the country and its citizens. Writing this book is also aimed at correcting the erroneous impression held by many people in Nigeria that the war was fought because the Igbo people wanted to secede. As can explained in the book, this impression cannot be true as the Igbo people called home any place they found themselves in. It is written to provoke readers, that if within two and a half years, Biafra was able to build a refinery and manufacture other things, what stops Nigeria after sixty years of independence?

New Perspectives on the Nigeria-Biafra War

Author : Chima J. Korieh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793631123
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on the Nigeria-Biafra War written by Chima J. Korieh and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Perspectives on the Nigeria-Biafra War: No Victor, No Vanquished analyzes the continued impact of the Nigeria-Biafra war on the Igbo, the failure of the reconstruction and reconciliation effort in the post-war period, and the politics of exclusion of the memory of the war in public discourse in Nigeria. Furthermore, New Perspectives on the Nigeria-Biafra War explores the resilience of the Igbo people and the different strategies they have employed to preserve the history and memory of Biafra. The contributors argue that the war had important consequences for the socio-political developments in the post-war period, ushering in two differing ideologies: a paternalistic ideology of “co-option” of the Igbo by the Nigerian state, under the false premise of ‘No Victor, No Vanquished,” and the Igbo commitment to self-preservation on the other.

Republic of Biafra: Once Upon a Time in Nigeria

Author : Onyema G. Nkwocha
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452068674
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Republic of Biafra: Once Upon a Time in Nigeria by : Onyema G. Nkwocha

Download or read book Republic of Biafra: Once Upon a Time in Nigeria written by Onyema G. Nkwocha and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not quite four months after the Western Region's election of October 10, 1965, did the localized mayhem in that Region find its way furiously into the center of the nation on January 15, 1966! It was like a whirl-wind of nothing but anarchy and lawlessness. The serious aftermath of the marred and rigged election was that it acted as the last straw that broke the Carmel's back, providing immediate reason for the army to overthrow the government of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe. Anarchy ensued; a counter coup led to the death of Major-General Ironsi. Callous barbarous massacre of thousands of easterners in the North followed. With their lives in jeopardy, easterners fled for safety to eastern region; refugee crisis followed. To guarantee their safety, easterners seceded from Nigeria and on May 30th 1967, formed an independent and sovereign nation of the Republic of Biafra. Determined to bring Easterners back, on July 6, 1967 Nigeria invaded Biafra; waged a gruesome thirty-month-civil war against Biafra. Nigeria blockaded Biafra on land, sea and air, to prevent food from entering Biafra. A malnutrition disease, Kwashiorkor that caused the deaths of thousands of Biafrans, followed. Nigeria bombed Biafran civilians, killing thousands. On January 12, 1970 the war ended leaving more than three million people dead in a war that was totally avoidable!

Women and the Nigeria-Biafra War

Author : Gloria Chuku
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793617856
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Women and the Nigeria-Biafra War written by Gloria Chuku and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first comprehensive study of the Nigeria-Biafra War (1967-1970) through the lens of gender explores the valiant and gallant ways women carried out old and new responsibilities in wartime and immediate postwar Nigeria. The book presents women as embodiments of vulnerability and agency, who demonstrated remarkable resilience and initiative, waging war on all fronts in the face of precarious conditions and scarcities, and maximizing opportunities occasioned by the hostilities. Women’s experiences are highlighted through critical analyses of oral interviews, memoirs, life histories, fashion and material culture, international legal conventions, music, as well as governmental and non-governmental sources. The book fills the gap in the war scholarship that has minimized women’s complex experiences fifty years after the hostilities ended. It highlights the cost of the conflict on Nigerian women, their participation in the hostilities, and their contributions to the survival of families, communities and the country. The chapters present counter-narratives to fictional and nonfictional accounts of the war, especially those written by men, which often peripheralize or stereotypically represent women as passive spectators or helpless victims of the conflict; and also highlight and exaggerate women’s moral laxity and sensationalize their marital infidelities.

Just One Simair Story

Author : Rich Schaffer
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475955286
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Just One Simair Story written by Rich Schaffer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich Schaffer served the Lord for 20 years as a missionary pilot with the Sudan Interior Mission in Nigeria, West Africa. Harold Fuller wrote .. Great stuff, Rich. You have a very interesting writing style .. reconstructing conversation, describing vividly, building suspense. Were enjoying the chapters as you send them. I knew you were an accomplished pilot, but had no idea of your writing skills. Glad you are now using them! Flying with Rich at the controls was always okay. Although my heart at times pounded as the tiny Cessna faced a threatening tropical storm. I knew this matter-of fact guy of few words had the courage and professional experience to find a hole through or around the thunderheads and bring us out safely on the other side. And Rich always acknowledged that the Lord had given him the qualities that made him a top-rate pilot for Africas uncertain weather and questionable landing strips. In this story about SIMAIR, Rich takes the reader through many an adventure that showed Gods hand to be on the Mission aircraft and its occupants. With vivid description and homey dialogue , Rich weaves an honest account how God took a little boy from a tarpaper shack in Americas Midwest and made him part of a team who brought the Gospel to the neglected interior of West Africa .. fullfilling his boyhood dream of flying. Down to earth humor, growing pains, high adventure, finding God in dry season and rainy-season tempest .. Rich holds the readers attention from pagecone to the storys end. W. Harold Fuller, Lit.D (SIM Nigeria Director for several years of the Shaffers ministry)

Araba Let's Separate

Author : Ayuba Mshelia
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468529722
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Araba Let's Separate written by Ayuba Mshelia and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Araba(separation) was a word first used by rioters at a Bauchi demonstration signaling the Northern peoples desire to break from the federal republic of Nigeria. The catalyst for its first use was the cold-blooded murder of some prominent Northern elites, including the Premier of the North, Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto, by predominantly Igbo officers, on January 15, 1966 Araba became a rallying cry for the Norths disaffection with the state of affairs after Irons promulgation of the obnoxious decree No 34, making Nigeria a unitary state. In some quarters, it became resonant and synonymous with the rampant killing of Igbos in the North. These killings (similar things were happening to Northerners in the East) necessitated the mass movement of Igbos to the East and Northerners to the Northern territories. The Norths disaffection with decree No 34 led to the overthrow of Irons regime by predominantly Northern officers, led by, amongst others, M. Muhammed. However, military decorum and Northern political leadership demanded Muhammed defer to Gowon, even though Gowon was never part of the coup plan or a strong supporter of it. Indeed, if anything, he tried to quell it. The abrogation of decree No 34 and the creation of the twelve-state structure by Gowon was the final straw that broke the camels back for Ojukwu, who consequently proclaimed his territorys secession from Nigeria and the creation of an independent republic of Biafra formed out of the Eastern states. The seed for a bloody civil war was thus cast, and for four years the East felt the worst for it. However, the magnanimity of a blanket amnesty given to all the rebel soldiers at the end of hostilities was admirable, and an intelligent piece of statecraft, responsible for the easy and smooth absorption of those in the East into the economic and political life of the country.

Surviving in Biafra

Author : Alfred Obiora Uzokwe
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595263666
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Surviving in Biafra written by Alfred Obiora Uzokwe and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism

Author : Lasse Heerten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107111803
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism written by Lasse Heerten and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A global history of 'Biafra', providing a new explanation for the ascendance of humanitarianism in a postcolonial world.

Far Away in the Sky

Author : David L. Koren
Publisher : David L Koren
ISBN 13 : 1467996149
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Far Away in the Sky written by David L. Koren and published by David L Koren. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some were paid. Some felt compelled by a duty to God. Some volunteered. Some died doing it. All flew on rickety old aircraft into a nighttime, wartime patch of African forest called Biafra. Far Away in the Sky gives the personal account of one of them, a young American volunteer who joined the largest international humanitarian relief airlift ever attempted. In 1968 millions of people, mostly children, were starving due to a military blockade of Biafra, the former Eastern Region of Nigeria. The World Council of Churches and Caritas International mounted a relief airlift. Flying at night to avoid Nigerian Migs, without radar or any modern navigational aids, landing amid bombs on a stretch of road in the rain forest, the old planes delivered thousands of tons of food and medicines. UNICEF recruited six former United States Peace Corps Volunteers, including the author, to help unload the planes. The former volunteers had served in Nigeria and were familiar with the area and the people. To David Koren the people of Biafra, his former students and fellow teachers, constituted his motive for joining the airlift. More than just a memoir of events, Far Away in the Sky promotes a discussion of international aid, of the balance between the grace of giving and the dignity of receiving aid, and the policies of governments toward intervention or non-intervention in humanitarian disasters. How do the lessons of Biafra apply to modern eruptions like Rwanda, Darfur, Libya, Syria and those yet to come? .

The 2Nd Migration

Author : Richard E. Nzeadibe
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465327835
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book The 2Nd Migration written by Richard E. Nzeadibe and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work contains 13 short chapters, a table of contents and index, in 92 double-spaced pages. Briefly I discussed the 1st. Migrationthe Slave Trade Across the Atlantic and its impact on the migrants. The Second Migration which started early in 19th. C. was and still different. The nationalists came seeking high education which would enable them to dismantle European imperialism and Colonialism. They were markedly different from those who trained in Europe. They trailed the way for us. After waiting for the benefits of independence and seeing nothing, migration doubled and it has continued. The Push is in Nigeria and Africa; the Pull is in the U.S....Eventually, the so-called Brain Drain may become Brain Gain....

Chike and the River

Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 0307473864
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Chike and the River written by Chinua Achebe and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an 11-year-old Nigerian boy leaves his small village to live with his uncle in the city, he is exposed to a range of new experiences and becomes fascinated with crossing the Niger River on a ferry boat.

Afropolitan Horizons

Author : Ulf Hannerz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800733194
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Afropolitan Horizons written by Ulf Hannerz and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction. Nigerian Connections -- Palm Wine, Amos Tutuola, and a Literary Gatekeeper -- Bahia-Lagos-Ouidah: Mariana's Story -- Igbo Life, Past and Present: Three Views -- Inland, Upriver with the Empire: Borrioboola-Gha -- The City, according to Ekwensi . . . and Onuzo -- Points of Cultural Geography: Ibadan . . . Enugu, Onitsha, Nsukka -- Been-To: Dreams, Disappointments, Departures, and Returns -- Dateline Lagos: Reporting on Nigeria to the World -- Death in Lagos -- Tai Solarin: On Colonial Power, Schools, Work Ethic, Religion, and the Press -- Wole Soyinka, Leo Frobenius, and the Ori Olokun -- A Voice from the Purdah: Baba of Karo -- Bauchi: The Academic and the Imam -- Railtown Writers -- Nigeria at War -- America Observed: With Nigerian Eyes -- Transatlantic Shuttle -- Sojourners from Black Britain -- Oyotunji Village, South Carolina: Reverse Afropolitanism.

A History of the Republic of Biafra

Author : Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108895956
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Republic of Biafra written by Samuel Fury Childs Daly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Student Encyclopedia of African Literature

Author : Douglas Killam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313054517
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Student Encyclopedia of African Literature written by Douglas Killam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-12-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African literature is a vast subject of growing output and interest. Written especially for students, this book selectively surveys the topic in a clear and accessible way. Included are roughly 600 alphabetically arranged entries on writers, genres, and major works. Many entries cite works for further reading, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. Africa is a land of contrasts and of diverse cultures and traditions. It is also a land of conflict and creativity. The literature of the continent draws upon a fascinating body of oral traditions and lore and also reflects the political turmoil of the modern world. With the increased interest in cultural diversity and the growing centrality of Africa in world politics, African literature is figuring more and more prominently in the curriculum. This book helps students learn about the African literary achievement. Written expressly for students, this book is far more accessible than other reference works on the subject. Included are nearly 600 alphabetically arranged entries on authors, such as Chinua Achebe, Athol Fugard, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, and Wole Soyinka; major works, such as Things Fall Apart and Petals of Blood; and individual genres, such as the novel, drama, and poetry. Many entries cite works for further reading, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.

Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide

Author : A. Dirk Moses
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351858653
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide written by A. Dirk Moses and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

From Trials to Triumphs (the Coscharis Story)

Author : Ambassador Udo Moses Williams
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1607919257
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book From Trials to Triumphs (the Coscharis Story) written by Ambassador Udo Moses Williams and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Udo Moses Williams, PhD, commenced his work experience in the University of Calabar in 1978 and later joined the Nigerian Foreign Service where he served in various capacities, including as Nigeria's Ambassador Extra-Ordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Congo. Dr. Williams has written three books: The Nigerian Diplomatic Practice: A guide (2004); The Nigerian Diplomatic Practice: A revision (2005); and the Philippine Presidency (2007). His wife, Mrs. Eno Udo Williams, a public relations expert, is a graduate of the University of Lagos and also has a degree in Linguistics from France. Her work experience includes a stint as Assistant Manager in Sprint and later as Sales Manager in Tempo both in Quebec, Canada. She is a committed Christian, wife and mother. Udo and his wife, Eno, live in Canada. His father died when he was four years old, which denied him the benefit of formal education but with only 400 dollars as investment capital he built a conglomerate with interests spanning the globe. How did Cosmas and Charity Maduka create the Coscharis phenomenon despite the challenges inherent in their background and the vicissitudes of a developing country? Unarguably one Nigerian whose entrepreneurial skills have touched virtually every sector of the Nigerian economy. - The Sun. I sincerely want to encourage the youth to read this book as a motivational guide and as an encyclopaedia of how to grow success and wealth. - Professor Ibidapo Obe FASFA Eng, OFR, Former Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos (2002-2007). This book is something that all of us, young and old, accomplished and aspiring, should read. The lives of these two souls shine forth with the love of God, shine forth with courage, honesty, determination, humility and kindness. - Brian Browne, Former US Consul-General, Lagos, Nigeria.

Oil, Politics and Violence

Author : Max Siollun
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 087586709X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Oil, Politics and Violence written by Max Siollun and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An insider traces the details of hope and ambition gone wrong in the Giant of Africa, Nigeria, Africa's most populous country. When it gained independence from Britain in 1960, hopes were high that, with mineral wealth and over 140 million people, the most educated workforce in Africa, Nigeria would become Africa s first superpower and a stabilizing democratic influence in the region. However, these lofty hopes were soon dashed and the country lumbered from crisis to crisis, with the democratic government eventually being overthrown in a violent military coup in January 1966. From 1966 until 1999, the army held onto power almost uninterrupted under a succession of increasingly authoritarian military governments and army coups. Military coups and military rule (which began as an emergency aberration) became a seemingly permanent feature of Nigerian politics. The author names names, and explores how British influence aggravated indigenous rivalries. He shows how various factions in the military were able to hold onto power and resist civil and international pressure for democratic governance by exploiting the country's oil wealth and ethnic divisions to its advantage."--Publisher's description.