A BRIEF TIMELINE OF THE CIVIL WAR

ā€˜A country went to war with itself and lost.’

― Precious Arinze
Author of Remembering Biafra

Reading Biafra

SUNSET IN BIAFRA

Elechi Amadi

ON A DARKLING PLAIN

Ken Saro-Wiwa

THE POLITICS OF POST-WAR DEMOBILISATION AND REINTEGRATION IN NIGERIA.

Olukunle Ojeleye

THERE WAS A COUNTRY

Chinua Achebe

HALF OF A YELLOW SUN

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

DESTINATION BIAFRA

Buchi Emecheta

CRISIS AND CONFLICT IN NIGERIA: A DOCUMENTARY SOURCE BOOK, VOL. I & II

A.H.M. Kirk-Greene

FURTHER READING
EGODI UCHENDU
ā€œRECOLLECTIONS OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES DURING THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WARā€
AFRICA: JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN INSTITUTE, VOL. 77, NO. 3 (2007), PP. 393-418. (AVAILABLE HERE.)
CHIBUIKE UCHE
ā€œOIL, BRITISH INTERESTS AND THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WARā€
THE JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY, 49, 111-135, 2008. (AVAILABLE HERE.)
NICHOLAS IBEAWUCHI OMENKA
ā€œBLAMING THE GODS: CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS PROPAGANDA IN THE NIGERIA-BIAFRA WARā€
THE JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY, VOL. 51, NO. 3 (2010), PP. 367-389. (AVAILABLE HERE.)
GRAHAM FURNISS,
ā€œHAUSA POETRY ON THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WARā€
AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES, VOL. 4, NO. 1, THE LITERATURES OF WAR (1991), PP. 21-28. (AVAILABLE HERE.); AND
OGONNA AGU,
ā€œSONGS AND WAR: THE MIXED MESSAGES OF BIAFRAN WAR SONGSā€
AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES, VOL. 4, NO. 1, THE LITERATURES OF WAR (1991), PP. 5-19. (AVAILABLE HERE.)
KATHRYN NWAJIAKU-DAHOU
ā€œHEROES AND VILLAINS: IJAW NATIONALIST NARRATIVES OF THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR.ā€
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT, VOL.XXXIV, NO. 1, 2009, PP. 47-67. (AVAILABLE HERE)
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