History of the Republic of Biafra - Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War

An accessible study demonstrating how the conditions of the Nigerian Civil War paved the way for the country's long experience of crime.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Law, order, and the Biafran national imagination; 2. Sworn on the gun: martial violence and violent crime; 3. Counterfeit country: fraud and forgery in Biafra; 4. Burying the hatchet: the problems of postwar reintegration; 5. 'A long heated moment': violent crime in the east central state; 6. No longer at ease: fraud and deception in postwar Nigeria; Epilogue: war crimes and crimes of war; Archival collections consulted; Index.

About the author

Samuel Fury Childs Daly is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies, History, and International Comparative Studies at Duke University. An historian of twentieth-century Africa, he is the author of articles in journals including Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, African Studies Review and African Affairs.

Summary

Based on research using an original archive of legal records and oral histories, this accessible study examines the history of the Nigerian Civil War and its aftermath from the perspective of the courtroom, demonstrating how the conditions of the Nigerian Civil War paved the way for the country's long experience of crime that was to follow.

Product details

• Authors: D SAMUEL FURY CHILD, Samuel Fury Childs Daly, Samuel Fury Childs (Duke University Daly
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781108840767
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84076-7
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Nigeria, HISTORY / Africa / General, African History, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, Regional Government Policies, Regional, state and other local government policies