A History of the Republic of Biafra

Autorentext
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.

Klappentext
An accessible study demonstrating how the conditions of the Nigerian Civil War paved the way for the country's long experience of crime.

Zusammenfassung
Based on research using an original archive of legal records and oral histories, this accessible study examines the history of the Nigerian Civil War and its aftermath from the perspective of the courtroom, demonstrating how the conditions of the Nigerian Civil War paved the way for the country's long experience of crime that was to follow.

Inhalt
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.

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