ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section |43 pages
Introduction
section I|89 pages
Genocide and the Biafran Bid for Self-Determination
chapter 3|23 pages
Marketing Genocide
Biafran Propaganda Strategies During the Nigerian Civil War, 1967–1970
section II|192 pages
A Global Event
chapter 9|19 pages
Strange Bedfellows
An Unlikely Alliance Between the Soviet Union and Nigeria During the Biafran War
chapter 11|20 pages
Dealing With ‘Genocide’
The ICRC and the UN During the Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967–1970
chapter 12|19 pages
Humanitarian Encounters
Biafra, NGOs and Imaginings of the Third World in Britain and Ireland, 1967–1970
chapter 13|23 pages
‘And Starvation Is the Grim Reaper’
The American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive and the Genocide Question During the Nigerian Civil War, 1968–1970
chapter 14|26 pages
‘Black America Cares’
The Response of African-Americans to Civil War and ‘Genocide’ in Nigeria, 1967–1970
section III|130 pages
Trauma and Memory
chapter 17|25 pages
Memory as Social Burden
Collective Remembrance of the Biafran War and Imaginations of Socio-Political Marginalization in Contemporary Nigeria
