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Biafran War (1967–70) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (6 ed.)
...Biafran War ( 1967–70 , Nigeria) A Nigerian civil war caused by irreconcilable ethnic tensions. In 1966 , an army coup brought to power a military regime headed by an Ibo (from the south), who was himself deposed by a group of northern military officers under the leadership of Gowon , in order to forestall Ibo domination. Many of the Ibo people were murdered in retaliation, which made them feel even more acutely their disadvantaged position in the Nigerian polity. In response, on 30 May 1967 , the erstwhile Military Governor, Colonel Ojukwu ,...
Biafran War Reference library
Patrick Mbajekwe
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
... War . In May 1967 the Eastern Region of Nigeria seceded from the country and proclaimed itself the independent Republic of Biafra. In early June the federal government of Nigeria declared war on Biafra to crush the secession and reunite the country. The Biafran War, also called the Nigerian Civil War, lasted for thirty months and claimed an estimated one million lives, mostly civilians, before Biafra capitulated and surrendered in January 1970 . The war was both the highlight and the symbol of the enormous nation-building challenges that confronted...
Biafran Civil War (1967–70) Quick reference
A Dictionary of African Politics
...Biafran Civil War ( 1967–70 ) A period of civil conflict in Nigeria triggered by the attempted secession of the eastern part of the country as the Republic of Biafra. The Biafran Civil War, also known as the Nigerian Civil War, followed a rapid deterioration in relations between the main ethnic groups in Nigeria and between the governments of the northern, eastern, and western regions. The long- and medium-term drivers of the conflict were the legacy of indirect rule and the emergence of a winner-takes-all political dynamic, coupled with intense...
Biafran War
Alan Titley
Yakubu Gowon
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
Samuel Fosso
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Madmen and Specialists
Christopher Okigbo
Don't Cry, Scream
Olusegun Obasanjo
Obafemi Awolowo
Nigeria
Gowon, Yakubu (1934) Quick reference
A Dictionary of World History (3 ed.)
...Yakubu ( 1934 – ) Nigerian general and statesman, head of state (1966–75). He seized power in 1966 , ousting the leader of an earlier military coup. Following the Biafran civil war (1967–70) he maintained a policy of ‘no victor, no vanquished’ that helped to reconcile the warring factions. Gowon was himself removed in a military coup in 1975...
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi (1977–) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
... Novelist . She grew up in Nsukka, Nigeria, and is a graduate of two American universities. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus ( 2003 ), is an exploration of a Nigerian family's tense but loving relationship. Half of a Yellow Sun ( 2006 ), set during the Nigerian Civil War (Biafran War), won the Orange...
Okara, Gabriel (1921– ) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
...transliteration using Ijaw phrasing and syntax: ‘Who are you people be?’ In The Fisherman's Invocation ( 1978 ) and The Dreamer, his Vision ( 2005 ) his poems are poised between Africa and Europe. Unpublished manuscripts were destroyed during the Nigerian Civil War (Biafran War) of 1967–70...
Okigbo, Christopher (1932–67) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
...Christopher ( 1932–67 ) Nigerian poet, killed when serving as a major in the Nigerian Civil War (Biafran War). His family was Roman Catholic, and his grandfather was a priest of the Ibo god Idoto; his verse represents a quest to ritualize and explore the complex strands of his own identity, evoking T. S. Eliot 's The Waste Land . The separately published Heavensgate ( 1962 ), Limits ( 1964 ), Silences ( 1965 ), and Path of Thunder ( 1968 ) are all included in the posthumously published Labyrinths ( 1971 ) and Collected Poems ( 1986...
EKWENSI, Cyprian (1921–2007) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2 ed.)
...EKWENSI, Cyprian ( Odiatu ) ( 1921–2007 ) Nigerian novelist , and a senior official in his country’s Ministry of Information before the Biafran war, Ekwensi wrote a number of books read widely by African children. His most attractive and original children’s book is An African Night’s Entertainment ( 1962 ), an Arabian Nights -style story about a rich man who snatches a girl away from her childhood sweetheart and marries her himself, with disastrous...
