Trauma, Memory, and the Nigerian Civil War
by
S. Elizabeth Bird, Fraser M. Ottanelli
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
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...