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Britain's Injurious Peace Games in the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970 (Hardcover)
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Britain's Injurious Peace Games in the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970 (Hardcover)
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On October 1, 1960, Nigeria gained her independence from the
British colonial rule. On July 6, 1967, the country was engulfed in
a civil war fought between the Federal Military Government of
Nigeria, led by Major-General Yakubu Gowon, and the defunct
Republic of Biafra, led by Lieutenant-Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu
Ojukwu. As the former colonial power, and Nigeria's closest partner
in the Commonwealth and, indeed, in the Western world, the outbreak
of the war in 1967 presented Britain with a painful dilemma.
Throughout the war, Britain desired to help promote peaceful
negotiation of the conflict in a way that allowed her still to
maintain strong influence with the Nigerian government. The British
government tried to keep close contact with both sides in an effort
to bring them together. This book interrogates how the British
officialdom attempted to promote atmosphere of peace during the
Nigerian civil war and how such attempts failed to yield concrete
result. The British-backed peace initiatives experienced a backlash
owing to the massive pressures mounted against her military support
to the Nigerian government. While seeking the earliest possible
peaceful solution to the war, the British government believed that
it must in its own interest maintain close relationship with the
Nigerian government so long as it has a reasonable prospect of
bringing the war to a successful conclusion or risk jeopardizing
its interests in Nigeria in jeopardy. While much work on the
Nigerian Civil War has treated the major causes of the war and even
added some global perspectives to it, this book is the first of its
kind that studies British diplomatic involvement in the war. Its
main targets are students of diplomatic history, diplomats,
professional researchers and the general public.
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