Women and the Nigeria-Biafra War - Reframing Gender and Conflict in Africa

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

Part II: Women's War Life Stories and Memoirs

Chapter 3: Becoming Biafran: The Civil War Writing of Rosina Umelo

S. Elizabeth Bird

Chapter 4: Nwanyi B'uno: Reflections on Angelina Ihejirika's Memoir on the Nigeria-Biafra War

Christine N. Ohale

Chapter5: Invisible Loss: Rose Njoku's Narration of Familial Loss in the Nigeria-Biafra War

Comfort Olajumoke Verissimo

Chapter 6: 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 7: Rape as a Moral Attack against Women in the Nigeria-Biafra War

Mary Rose-Claret Ogbuehi

Chapter 8: Igbo Maidens and the N

About the author

Gloria Chuku is professor and chair of the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.Sussie U. Aham-Okoro is adjunct lecturer in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.Bright Alozie is assistant professor of Black studies at Portland State University.Sussie U. Aham-Okoro is adjunct lecturer in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.Gloria Chuku is professor and chair of the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Product details

• Authors: Gloria Aham-Okoro Chuku
• Assisted by: Sussie U. Aham-Okoro (Editor), Gloria Chuku (Editor), Chuku Gloria (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781793617842
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-784-2
• No. of pages: 372
• Series: Critical African Studies in Ge; Critical African Studies in Gender and Sexuality; Gender and Sexuality in Africa and the Diaspora
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, HISTORY / Africa / West, Politics & government, Feminism & feminist theory, Politics and government, African History, West Africa, Feminism and feminist theory