Overview

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.

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Author:   Gloria Chuku ,  Sussie U. Aham-Okoro ,  Bright Alozie ,  S Elizabeth Bird
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.767kg
ISBN:  

9781793617842

ISBN 10:   1793617848
Pages:   372
Publication Date:   07 October 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: Writing about Warring Women in Prewar, Wartime and Postwar Nigeria Chapter 1: Introduction: Writing about Women and the Nigeria-Biafra War Gloria Chuku Chapter 2: Undressing to Redress: The Sexual Politics of Protests in Colonial and Post-Colonial Southeastern Nigeria Bright Alozie Chapter 3: Women and New Responsibilities in Wartimes: A Perspective Analysis of the Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967 – 1970 Ajishola Omojeje Part II: Women’s War Life Stories and Memoirs Chapter 4: Becoming Biafran: The Civil War Writing of Rosina Umelo S. Elizabeth Bird Chapter 5: Nwanyi B’uno: Reflections on Angelina Ihejirika’s Memoir on the Nigeria-Biafra War Christine N. Ohale Chapter 6: Invisible Loss: Rose Njoku’s Narration of Familial Loss in the Nigeria-Biafra War Comfort Olajumoke Verissimo Chapter 7: Women, War Memories and Counter Memories: Stories of Survival, Resilience and Empowerment Sussie U. Aham Okoro Part III: War Conditions and Women’s Coping Strategies Chapter 8: Rape as a Moral Attack against Women in the Nigeria-Biafra War Mary Rose-Claret Ogbuehi Chapter 9: Igbo Maidens and the Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967-1970: Interethnic Marriage or Forced Migration? Nathaniel B. Gimba Luka Chapter 10: Igbo Women's Fashion and the Nigeria-Biafra War Chukwuemeka Nwigwe Part IV: Women, Consequences and Postwar Rehabilitation Chapter 11: Igbo Women and Postwar Reconstruction, Reconciliation and Reintegration Efforts in Nigeria, 1968-1975 Gloria Chuku Chapter 12: Impact of the Nigeria-Biafra War on the Education of Girls in Eastern Nigeria: 1967-1970 Zara E. Kwaghe Chapter 13: Igbo Women’s Experience in Northern Nigeria during the Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967-1970: A Study in Lessons of Trauma and Backlash Aisha Balarabe Bawa Chapter 14: Women and War Crimes: Highlighting Progress on Gender-Based Legislation in International Criminal Justice since the Nigeria-Biafra War Chinyere Eze-Nliam Part V: The War and Literary Representations of Women Chapter 15: Narratives of Trauma and Struggle in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun Blessing Diala-Ogamba Chapter 16: The Wrath of War and the Ruin of the Woman: A Socio-critical Analysis of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Ngozi Kris-Ogbodo & Marinus Samoh Yong

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In this impressive volume, Gloria Chuku and her colleagues have provided us with an authoritative book on the gendered dimensions of the Nigeria-Biafra War-- a critical subject in modern Nigerian history. Drawing on authoritative chapters across the humanities and the social sciences, this exceptional book effectively encapsulates the torturous foundation of Nigeria's problematic post-colonial state.--Olufemi Vaughan, Amherst College

In this impressive volume, Gloria Chuku and her colleagues have provided us with an authoritative book on the gendered dimensions of the Nigeria-Biafra War-- a critical subject in modern Nigerian history. Drawing on authoritative chapters across the humanities and the social sciences, this exceptional book effectively encapsulates the torturous foundation of Nigeria's problematic post-colonial state. Women and the Nigeria-Biafra War is a welcome addition to the scholarly literature on women, gender, and war in African and global history.

"In this impressive volume, Gloria Chuku and her colleagues have provided us with an authoritative book on the gendered dimensions of the Nigeria-Biafra War-- a critical subject in modern Nigerian history. Drawing on authoritative chapters across the humanities and the social sciences, this exceptional book effectively encapsulates the torturous foundation of Nigeria's problematic post-colonial state.--Olufemi Vaughan, Amherst College Women and the Nigeria-Biafra War is a welcome addition to the scholarly literature on women, gender, and war in African and global history. -- ""Journal of African Military History"""

Author Information

Gloria Chuku is professor and chair of the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Sussie U. Aham-Okoro is adjunct lecturer in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

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