Recollections of Childhood Experiences During the Nigerian Civil War

Uchendu, Egodi

doi:10.3366/afr.2007.0063

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“…Identity becomes the man's offence even when he is denied such a tribal tag. Egodi Uchendu (2010) states that; "The soldiers who entered Agbor did not only molest women: they also harassed men. When the local LIFE 288 ISSN 0216 -809X (Print) ISSN 2685 -4112 (Online) people refused to come out of hiding, they promised not to harm them but requested to be formally welcomed.…”

Section: Findings and Discussion Identity As Life And Deathmentioning

confidence: 99%

Identity as Life & Death in My Name Is Okoro

Onuoha

Ohanyere²

2022

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History provides the framework for literary production and the corroboration of historical controversies. Identity is implicated in the controversy of My Name is Okoro. This paper, through the application of new criticism as an analytic framework, examines identity as a thin line between life and death in My Name is Okoro. It further examines how identity is self-definition and survival. Many scholars have focused their literary analysis on the effects of the Nigerian Civil War without paying attention to the role of naming and identification during the war. This study also highlights that in times of crisis, identity protect the individuals who are associated with the side that wills more physical and military power. Identity is factor that affects the survival of individual in the society. This paper concludes that those of minority extraction as well as the Igbo of the Eastern region suffered greatly as a result of their identity in My Name is Okoro.

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Section: Findings and Discussion Identity As Life And Deathmentioning

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Identity as Life & Death in My Name Is Okoro

Onuoha

Ohanyere²

2022

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“…The Nigerian Civil War was a military conflict between the Nigerian Federation and its former eastern region, renamed the Biafran Republic. (Moses & Heerten 2018; Heerten, 2017; World Peace Foundation, 2015; Abdulrahman, 2014; Crowder, 1982; Madiebo, 1980; Oyelele, 1981; Stremlau, 1977; Uche, 2008; Uchendu, 2007, 2007; Oyediran, 1981; Wiseberg, 1975. See also, Coleman, 1958; Ezera, 1964; Kirk-Greene, 1971).…”

Section: The Nigerian Civil War the Genocide Question And The Pro-bia...mentioning

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American Defender of One Nigeria: James Meredith, the Nigerian Civil War and the Politics of American Intervention in the Global South

Abdulrahman

2024

Journal of Black Studies

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Following the Biafran allegations of genocide against the Nigerian government during the Civil War, pro-Biafran groups emerged in the United States to pressure the American government into political intervention in the form of recognizing the Biafran republic. In response, African-American Civil Rights hero James Meredith counter-balanced the pro-Biafran groups, and advocated for one Nigeria in the United States. By analyzing public speech, correspondences, fact-finding mission reports, congressional hearing testimonies, and oral interviews, this paper examines Meredith’s pro-One Nigeria (Pan-African) activism during the Nigerian Civil War, and promotes a nuanced understanding of the international dimension of the Nigerian Civil War. This study proposes an episode of transnational history of the global black liberation movement of the long sixties, and demonstrates that Meredith’s pro-one Nigeria activism during the Nigerian Civil War was influenced by his background as a Civil Rights leader and his pan-African ideology.

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“…Some women sold prepared food, and others established mini-restaurants and drinking houses. But a few privileged ones became food contractors, supplying foodstuff to either Biafran or Nigerian military units (Uchendu 2007b;Chuku 2002).…”

Section: The Warmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Many of the people directly involved in the war, either militarily or in non-military capacities were youths. Biafra soldiers and recruits were in their youthful age; many were teenagers or in their early twenties (interview, Chiorlu, 2012;interview, Ekanem, 2012;interview, Onwudinjo, 2012;interview, Iloeje, 2012;Uchendu 2007a;interview, Acholonu, 1993). In fact, the two leaders of the war were relatively young; Gowon was thirtytwo years old and Ojukwu thirty-three.…”

Section: The Warmentioning

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5 - Youth Activism and Ethnic Violence in Nigeria: From Decolonisation to the Nigeria-Biafra War

Chuku¹

2022

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Scholarship on violent conflicts in Africa has often constructed two images of the youth: the powerless victims deprived of any human agency and the ruthless perpetrators of acts of violence seen in many cases of child soldiers, armed militias, rapists and looters. Relying on interviews, archival materials and other sources, this article examines youth activities in Nigeria during the decolonisation politics and the first decade of independence, including the Nigeria-Biafra War and post-war period, focusing on ethnic violence and survival. It argues that the politicisation of ethnicity and resource distribution in Nigeria unleashed chains of violence that culminated in the thirty-month devastating war; and that in terms of the pre-war, wartime, and post-war events, Nigerian youth have played complex and varied roles that make it difficult to classify them as either actors or victims of the violent conflicts in the country.

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Recollections of Childhood Experiences During the Nigerian Civil War

Cited by 14 publications

References 2 publications

Identity as Life & Death in My Name Is Okoro

Identity as Life & Death in My Name Is Okoro

American Defender of One Nigeria: James Meredith, the Nigerian Civil War and the Politics of American Intervention in the Global South

5 - Youth Activism and Ethnic Violence in Nigeria: From Decolonisation to the Nigeria-Biafra War

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