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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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