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The Asaba Massacre - Trauma, Memory, and the Nigerian Civil War (Paperback)
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The Asaba Massacre - Trauma, Memory, and the Nigerian Civil War (Paperback)
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In October 1967, early in the Nigerian Civil War, government troops
entered Asaba in pursuit of the retreating Biafran army,
slaughtering thousands of civilians and leaving the town in ruins.
News of the atrocity was suppressed by the Nigerian government,
with the complicity of Britain, and its significance in the
subsequent progress of that conflict was misunderstood. Drawing on
archival sources on both sides of the Atlantic and interviews with
survivors of the killing, pillaging and rape, as well as with
high-ranking Nigerian military and political leaders, S. Elizabeth
Bird and Fraser M. Ottanelli offer an interdisciplinary
reconstruction of the history of the Asaba Massacre, redefining it
as a pivotal point in the history of the war. Through this, they
also explore the long afterlife of trauma, the reconstruction of
memory and how it intersects with justice, and the task of
reconciliation in a nation where a legacy of ethnic suspicion
continues to reverberate.
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