Introduction: The Power of Silence: Reflections on the Politics of Memorializing the Biafra War
Chima J. Korieh
Part 1: War, History, and Memory
Chapter 1: Inhibitions to Speaking Out: Assessing Frederick Forsyth’s Three Categories of Silent Witness in Biafra
Paul R. Bartrop
Chapter 2: The Catholic Church and the Post-War Rehabilitation and Reconstruction in Nigeria, 1970-1975
Nicholas Ibeawuchi Omenka
Chapter 3: The Inseparable Ties with the Past: Indirect Colonial Rule in Nigeria and the Biafra War
Anwesha Das
Chapter 4: Biafran Enclaves and the Militia Activities in Mid-Western Nigeria, 1967-1970
Odigwe A. Nwaokocha
Chapter 5: Biafran Radical Groups and the Quest for Biafra Sovereignty in the Nigeria-Biafra War
Bernard Steiner Ifekwe
Chapter 6: Shades of Gray: Nigeria-Biafra War Coverage, American Diplomatic Nightmare, and the Conscience of a Nation.
Austine Duru
Part 2: Wartime Victims, The Igbo, and the Biafran Experience
Chapter 7: Constructing the Impact of the Nigeria-Biafra War on the Anioma People
Odigwe A. Nwaokocha
Chapter 8: The Philosophy of Refugeeism and Returneeism: The Experience of the Igbo in the Nigeria- Biafran War
Francis O. C. Njoku
Chapter 9: Biafra’s Hidden Victims: The Lone Story of a Child Evacuee, 1967-2017
Françoise Ugochukwu
Chapter 10: Children in the Nigeria-Biafra War: A Study on their Evacuation, Rehabilitation and Repatriation
Nicholas Ibeawuchi Omenka
Part 3: Fifty Year After: Biafra, Biafrans, and New Struggles
Chapter 11: RE-Imagining Biafra
Obioma Nnaemeka
Chapter 12: Biafra Aftermath and the Path Forward
G.N. Uzoigwe
Chapter 13: Biafra Then. Biafra Now.
John Sherman
Chapter 14: Pertinent Stakes in the Continuing Conversations on Biafra
Obinna Innocent Ihunna
Part 4: Biafrawar, Arts, and Representations
Chapter 15: War, Memory and the Literary Imagination
Rose A. Sackeyfio
Chapter 16: Of Tragedy and Art: Contemporary Igbo Artists and Critical (dis)Engagement with the Biafran War
John Kelechi Opara
Chapter 17: “Hands off Africa”: An Iconographic Survey of Biafra Self-Determination Posters in the Nigeria Civil War, 1967-1970
Etiido Effiong Inyang
Chapter 18: The Artist and the Nigeria-Biafra War: Memory and Representations
Hyacinth Chidozie Ngumah