Daly A History of the Republic of Biafra

Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-108-89567-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

The 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Daly, Samuel Fury Childs

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landesverwaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Law, order, and the Biafran national imagination; 2. Sworn on the gun: martial violence and violent crime; 3. Counterfeit country: fraud and forgery in Biafra; 4. Burying the hatchet: the problems of postwar reintegration; 5. 'A long heated moment': violent crime in the east central state; 6. No longer at ease: fraud and deception in postwar Nigeria; Epilogue: war crimes and crimes of war; Archival collections consulted; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Daly, Samuel Fury Childs
Samuel Fury Childs Daly is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies, History, and International Comparative Studies at Duke University. An historian of twentieth-century Africa, he is the author of articles in journals including Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, African Studies Review and African Affairs.