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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Professor Toyin Falola (Series Editor) , Ogechukwu Ezekwem (Royalty Account) , Professor Adetayo Alabi (Contributor) , Akachi OdoemenePublisher: James Currey Imprint: James Currey Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9781847011442ISBN 10: 1847011446 Pages: 511 Publication Date: 15 July 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"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"Reviewseas behind the conflict aAn engaging and of An engaging and often enlightening exploration of the Biafran war's cultural and intellectual history. AFRICA IN WORDS An engaging and often enlightening exploration of the Biafran war's cultural and intellectual history. * AFRICA IN WORDS * Author InformationTOYIN 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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