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 The Nigeria-Biafra War lasted from 6 July 1966 to 15 January 1970, during which time the post-colonial Nigerian state fought to bring the South-Eastern region, which had seceded as the State or Republic of Biafra, back into the newly independent but ideologically divided nation. This volume discusses the trends and methodologies in the civil war writings, both fictional and non-fictional, and is the first to analyse in detail the intellectual and historical circumstances that helped to shape these often contentious texts. The recent high-profile fictional account by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Half of a Yellow Sun was preceded by works by Ken Saro-Wiwa, Elechi Amadi, Kole Omotoso, Wole Soyinka, Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta, Chukwuemeka Ike and Chris Abani, all of which strongly convey the horrific human cost of the war on individuals and their communities. The non-fictional accounts, including Chinua Achebe's last work There Was a Country, are biographies, personal accounts and essays on the causes and course of the war, its humanitarian crises and the collaboration of foreign nations. The contributors examine writers' and protagonists' use of contemporary published texts as a means of continued resistance and justification of the war, the problems of objectivity encountered in memoirs, and how authors' backgrounds and sources determine the kinds of biases that influenced their interpretations, including the gendered divisions in Nigeria-Biafra War scholarship and sources. By initiating a dialogue on the civil war literature, this volume engages a much-needed discourse on the problems confronting a culturally diverse post-war Nigeria.

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Chapter 1: Scholarly Trends, Issues, and Themes: Introduction

 

Toyin Falola and Ogechukwu Ezekwem

 Part One: On the History of the Nigeria-Biafra War

 

Chapter 2: Background to the Nigerian Civil War

G. N. Uzoigwe

Chapter 3: Connecting Theory and Reality? The Nigeria-Biafra War Literature

Ogechi Anyanwu

Chapter 4: Articulating Biafra Propaganda: The Ahiara Declaration

Ralph Njoku

Chapter 5: The Ahiara Declaration: Polemics and Politics

Austin Okwu  

 Part Two: Critical Debates on the Nigerian Crisis

 

Chapter 6: Beyond the Blame-Game: Theorizing the Nigeria-Biafra War

Bukola A. Oyeniyi

Chapter 7: The Newspaper as Warmonger? National Crisis, the Newspaper Press and the Road

to War

Wale Adebanwi

Chapter 8 Literary Separatism: Ethnic Balkanization in Nigeria-Biafra War Literature

Akachi Odoemena

Chapter 9: Local Writers and Commitments to Ethnic Sentiments."

Olukunle Ojeleye

 Part Three: The War in Fiction, Memoir, and Imagination

 

Chapter 10: Memoirs and the Question of Objectivity: Revisiting Alexander Madiebo's The

Nigerian Revolution and the Biafran War and Robert Collis's Nigeria in Conflict

Chukwuma Opata

Chapter 11: Challenges of Nationhood in Pre-Biafra Texts

Cyril Obi

Chapter 12: First, There Was a Country; Then There Wasn't: Reflections on Achebe's Last

Book

Biodun Jeyifo

Chapter 13: The Social Complexities of the Nigeria-Biafra War in Chukwuemeka Ike's Sunset

at Dawn and Chimamanda Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun

Meredith Coffey

Chapter 14: Biafra in the Irish Imagination

Fiona Bateman

Chapter 15: Magical Realism or Science Fiction: The Nigerian Civil War and Ali Mazrui's The

Trial of Christopher Okigbo

Adetayo Alabi

Chapter 16: Biafra, an Impractical Mission? Revisiting S. O. Mezu's Behind the Rising Sun and

I. N. C. Aniebo's The Anonymity of Sacrifice.

Ode Ogede

Chapter 17: Neo-Colonialism, Biafra, and the Causes of War as Imagined in Buchi Emecheta's

Destination Biafra.

Françoise Ugochukwu

Chapter 18: No, This Is Not Redemption: The Legacy of The Biafra War in Chris Abani's

Graceland

Hugh Hodges

 Part Four: Locating Gender in Nigeria-Biafra War Literature

 

Chapter 19: Gender and the Construction of Nigeria-Biafra War Scholarship

Egodi Uchendu

Chapter 20: What Is the Country? Reimagining National Space in Women's Writing on the

Biafran War

Jane Bryce

Chapter 21: Female Participation in War and the Implication of Nationalism: The Postcolonial Disconnection in Destination Biafra

Ofure Aito

 

 

 

 

Toyin Falola

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