Scholarly Trends, Issues, and Themes: Introduction PART I ON THE
HISTORY OF THE NIGERIA-BIAFRA WAR - Toyin Falola
Scholarly Trends, Issues, and Themes: Introduction PART I ON THE
HISTORY OF THE NIGERIA-BIAFRA WAR - Ogechukwu Ezekwem
Background to the Nigerian Civil War - G.N. Uzoigwe
Connecting Theory with Reality: Understanding the Causes of the
Nigeria-Biafra War - Ogechi E. Anyanwu
The Ahiara Declaration and the Fate of Biafra in a
Postcolonial/Bi-Polar World Order - Raphael Chijioke Njoku
The Ahiara Declaration: Polemics and Politics PART II CRITICAL
DEBATES ON THE NIGERIAN CRISIS - Austine Okwu
Beyond the Blame-Game: Theorizing the Nigeria-Biafra War - Bukola
Oyeniyi
Confronting the Challenges of Nationhood in Pre-Biafra Texts:
Newspaper Narratives on the Eve of War - Wale Adebanwi
Literary Separatism: Ethnic Balkanization in Nigeria-Biafra War
Literature - Akachi Odoemene
Local Writers and Commitments to Ethnic Sentiments Part III THE WAR
IN FICTION, MEMOIR & IMAGINATION - Olukunle Ojeleye
Memoirs and the Question of Objectivity: Revisiting Alexander
Madiebos' The Nigerian Revolution & the Biafran War & Robert
Colliss's Nigeria in Conflict - Christian Chukwuma Opata
"War is War": Recreating the Dreams and Nightmares of the
Nigeria-Biafra War through the Eyes of Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy -
Cyril I. Obi
First, There Was a Country, Then There Wasn't: Reflections on
Achebe's There was a Country - Biodun Jeyifo
Ethnic Minorities and the Biafran National Imaginary in Chukwuemeka
Ike's Sunset at Dawnand Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow
Sun - Meredith Coffey
Biafra in the Irish Imagination: War and Famine in Banville's An
End to Flight and Forristal's Black Man's Country - Fiona
Bateman
Magical Realism or Science Fiction: The Nigerian Civil War and Ali
Mazrui's The Trial of Christopher Okigbo - Alabi Adetayo
Biafra, an Impractical Mission? Revisiting S.O. Mezu's Behind the
Rising Sun and I.N.C. Aniebo's The Anonymity of Sacrifice
TOYIN FALOLA is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. RAPHAEL CHIJIOKE NJOKU is professor of history at Idaho State University. TOYIN FALOLA is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. WALE ADEBANWI is Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (2016) and editor of The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa (2017).
An engaging and often enlightening exploration of the Biafran war's
cultural and intellectual history.
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