Dying for Attention: The Role of the Biafran Identity in the Biafran Campaign for Support during the Nigerian Civil War of 1967-70

This study examines the Biafran secession of 1967-1970 and how the secessionist government constructed a Biafran identity in its campaign to gain international support for Biafra’s permanent separation from Nigeria. The introductory chapter outlines the role of identity in Nigeria’s twentieth-centur...

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Main Author: Willms, Joshua P.
Language:en
Published: 2011
Subjects:
Ibo
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20081