Poison and medicine : ethnicity, power, and violence in a Nigerian city, 1966 to 1986 / Douglas A. Anthony.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anthony, Douglas A., 1965-

Series:

Social history of Africa

Social history of Africa series, 1099-8098

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Social aspects.

Ethnic conflict.

Ethnicity--Political aspects.

Igbo (African people).

Social conditions.

Politics and government.

Kano (Nigeria)--Ethnic relations.

Kano (Nigeria).

Igbo (African people)--Nigeria--Kano--Politics and government--20th century.

Igbo (African people)--Nigeria--Kano--Social conditions--20th century.

Igbo (African people)--Nigeria--Kano--Ethnic identity--History--20th century.

Nigeria--Kano.

Ethnicity.

Ethnicity--Political aspects--Nigeria--Kano--History--20th century.

Ethnic conflict--Nigeria--Kano--History--20th century.

Nigeria--History--Civil War, 1967-1970--Social aspects.

Nigeria.

Physical Description:

x, 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann ; Oxford, U.K. : James Currey ; Cape Town : David Philip, [2002]

Contents:

1 Ethnicity Enshrined: Igbos in Hausaland 31

2 The Ironsi Regime and the Specter of "Igbo Domination": January-July 1966 55

3 Purging the North: August-October 1966 86

4 From "Savages" to "Brothers": Official Representations of the Igbo, 1966-1970 119

5 "They Will Return": The Contradictions of Abandoned Property 147

6 "I Need to Get to Kano": Post-War Igbo Migration 175

7 Rebuilding Community, 1970-1986 217

Conclusion: Religion and Ethnicity at Century's End 233

Appendix The 1966 Disturbances 245.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-265) and index.

ISBN:

0325070520

0325070512

0852559593

0852559542

OCLC:

48691406