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Visions of nationhood : prelude to the Nigerian Civil War / G.N. Uzoigwe.
Van Pelt Library DT515.832 .U96 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Uzoigwe, G. N.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yoruba (African people)--Politics and government.
- Igbo (African people)--Politics and government.
- Fula (African people)--Politics and government.
- Fula (African people).
- Hausa (African people)--Politics and government.
- Hausa (African people).
- Ethnic conflict.
- History.
- Nationalism.
- Federal government.
- Politics and government.
- Nigeria--Politics and government--1960-1975.
- Nigeria.
- Nigeria--History--Civil War, 1967-1970--Causes.
- Nigeria, Eastern--Politics and government--20th century.
- Nigeria, Eastern.
- Federal government--Nigeria--History--20th century.
- Nationalism--Nigeria--History--20th century.
- Ethnic conflict--Nigeria--History--20th century.
- Hausa (African people)--Politics and government--20th century.
- Fula (African people)--Politics and government--20th century.
- Igbo (African people)--Politics and government--20th century.
- Igbo (African people).
- Yoruba (African people)--Politics and government--20th century.
- Yoruba (African people).
- Eastern Nigeria.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 359 pages : maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Nigeria's post colonial traumas, 1960-1967
- Crisis in the Western region, 1962 : struggle for regional power
- Controversy over national census, 1962-1963 : a portend of things to come
- Federal election, 1964-1965 : democracy Nigerian style
- Western region election, October 1965 : the "Wild Wild West" at it again
- Coups and countercoups, January-July 1966 : the fall of the house that Lugard built
- Genocide and secession, May 1966-May 1967
- pt. 2. "The end of obedience is protection" : on the social contract and Biafra (a treatise of government)
- The historicity of the social contract
- The meaning of the state : why an individual or a group should obey it : Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau
- Modern relevance : case study of Biafra
- pt. 3. Select documents
- The meeting of the Supreme Military Council at Aburi, Accra, Ghana, 4-5 January, 1967
- The Nigeria-Biafra conflict : Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Peace Conference, 5-15 August 1968.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1592217060
- 9781592217069
- 1592217079
- 9781592217076
- OCLC:
- 657270826
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