Awo on the Nigerian Civil War
Author: Obafemi Awolowo
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 164
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Author: Obafemi Awolowo
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 164
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Olusegun Obasanjo
Publisher: East African Publishers
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9789966250216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-08-27
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1108895956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Republic of Biafra lasted for less than three years, but the war over its secession would contort Nigeria for decades to come. Samuel Fury Childs Daly examines the history of the Nigerian Civil War and its aftermath from an uncommon vantage point – the courtroom. Wartime Biafra was glutted with firearms, wracked by famine, and administered by a government that buckled under the weight of the conflict. In these dangerous conditions, many people survived by engaging in fraud, extortion, and armed violence. When the fighting ended in 1970, these survival tactics endured, even though Biafra itself disappeared from the map. Based on research using an original archive of legal records and oral histories, Daly catalogues how people navigated conditions of extreme hardship on the war front, and shows how the conditions of the Nigerian Civil War paved the way for the country's long experience of crime that was to follow.
Author: Chinua Achebe
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-10-11
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1101595981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the legendary author of Things Fall Apart—a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Decades in the making, There Was a Country is a towering account of one of modern Africa’s most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe’s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age.
Author: Obafemi Awolowo
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 137
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Publisher: Cambridge : University Press
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 338
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKChief Obafemi Awolowo (1909-1987) was the leader of Nigeria's Action Group party and the first indigenous Premier of Western Nigeria. He campaigned heavily for developmental change and implemented free primary education and child healthcare policies across the Western Region. Awolowo began work on this autobiography in 1957, at a time when Nigeria's request for self-government had been refused. The work was completed in 1960, the year Nigeria gained its long-awaited independence. Accordingly, this autobiography is dedicated to a 'new and free Nigeria', with the trust that its people will enjoy 'a more abundant life'. This determined, self-made leader here describes his youth, education and politics. He writes of his hope that this tale of stubborn perseverance can become 'a source of inspiration' in itself, and indeed, this account will fascinate anyone with an interest in Africa, the history and politics of Western Nigeria, or a love of insightful political autobiography. (Amazon website).
Author: Wale Adebanwi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-03-31
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1107054222
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates the dynamics and challenges of ethnicity and elite politics in Nigeria.
Author: Femi Ojo-Ade
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780865437906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNigeria, a country of immense natural and human resources, with the potential to actually realise the too-often meaningless notion of independence, has suffered from decades of debilitating military leadership. Covering a period of five years in the unfolding tragicomedy of Africa's most populous country, this book addresses various issues concerning Nigeria in a style filled with dark humour, pungency and perspicacity. Ojo-Ade offers a full understanding of the Nigerian dilemma and its hope for a better future.
Author: Aribidesi Usman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-07-04
Total Pages: 519
ISBN-13: 1107064600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rich and accessible account of Yoruba history, society and culture from the pre-colonial period to the present.