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This comprehensive study of the Nigeria-Biafra War through the lens of gender captures women's complex experiences and the valiant ways they carried out old and new responsibilities in wartime and postwar Nigeria. It fills a gap in war scholarship fifty years after the conflict by presenting women as embodiments of vulnerability and agency.
List of contents
Part I: Writing about Warring Women in Prewar, Wartime and Postwar Nigeria
Chapter 1: Introduction: Writing about Women and the Nigeria-Biafra War
Gloria Chuku
Chapter 2: Undressing to Redress: The Sexual Politics of Protests in Colonial and Post-Colonial Southeastern Nigeria
Bright Alozie
Chapter 3: Women and New Responsibilities in Wartimes: A Perspective Analysis of the Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967 - 1970
Ajishola Omojeje
Part II: Women's War Life Stories and Memoirs
Chapter 4: Becoming Biafran: The Civil War Writing of Rosina Umelo
S. Elizabeth Bird
Chapter 5: Nwanyi B'uno: Reflections on Angelina Ihejirika's Memoir on the Nigeria-Biafra War
Christine N. Ohale
Chapter 6: Invisible Loss: Rose Njoku's Narration of Familial Loss in the Nigeria-Biafra War
Comfort Olajumoke Verissimo
Chapter 7: Women, War Memories and Counter Memories: Stories of Survival, Resilience and Empowerment
Sussie U. Aham Okoro
Part III: War Conditions and Women's Coping Strategies
Chapter 8: Rape as a Moral Attack against Women in the Nigeria-Biafra War
Mary Rose-Claret Ogbuehi
Chapter 9: Igbo Maidens and the Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967-1970: Interethnic Marriage or Forced Migration?
Nathaniel B. Gimba Luka
Chapter 10: Igbo Women's Fashion and the Nigeria-Biafra War
Chukwuemeka Nwigwe
Part IV: Women, Consequences and Postwar Rehabilitation
Chapter 11: Igbo Women and Postwar Reconstruction, Reconciliation and Reintegration Efforts in Nigeria, 1968-1975
Gloria Chuku
Chapter 12: Impact of the Nigeria-Biafra War on the Education of Girls in Eastern Nigeria: 1967-1970
Zara E. Kwaghe
Chapter 13: Igbo Women's Experience in Northern Nigeria during the Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967-1970: A Study in Lessons of Trauma and Backlash
Aisha Balarabe Bawa
Chapter 14: Women and War Crimes: Highlighting Progress on Gender-Based Legislation in International Criminal Justice since the Nigeria-Biafra War
Chinyere Eze-Nliam
Part V: The War and Literary Representations of Women
Chapter 15: Narratives of Trauma and Struggle in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun
Blessing Diala-Ogamba
Chapter 16: The Wrath of War and the Ruin of the Woman: A Socio-critical Analysis of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Ngozi Kris-Ogbodo & Marinus Samoh Yong
About the author
Edited by Gloria Chuku and Sussie U. Aham-Okoro - Contributions by Bright Alozie; Christine Nwakego Ohale; S Elizabeth Bird; Comfort Olajumoke Verissimo; Mary Rose-Claret Ogbuehi; Nathaniel B. Gimba Luka; Chukwuemeka Nwigwe; Sussie U. Aham-Okoro; Gloria C
