Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide

A. Dirk Moses is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sydney. He is the author and editor of many publications on history, memory and genocide, including Colonial Counterinsurgency and Mass Violence: The Dutch Empire in Indonesia (2014, edited with Bart Luttikhuis) and the Journal of Genocide Research (senior editor). Lasse Heerten is head of the project Imperial Gateway: Hamburg, the German Empire, and the Making of a Global Port at the Freie Universitt Berlin. Prior to this, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Human Rights at the University of California at Berkeley. His first book, a global history of the humanitarian crisis in Biafra, will be published by Cambridge University Press.

Introduction 1. The Nigeria-Biafra war: postcolonial conflict and the question of genocide Lasse Heerten and A. Dirk Moses Section I - Genocide and the Biafran bid for self-determination 2. Irreconcilable narratives: Biafra, Nigeria and arguments about genocide, 19661970 Douglas Anthony 3. Marketing genocide: Biafran propaganda strategies during the Nigerian civil war, 19671970 Roy Doron 4. The case against Victor Banjo: legal process and the governance of Biafra Samuel Fury Childs Daly 5. The Biafran secession and the limits of self-determination Brad Simpson Section II - A global event 6. The UK and genocide in Biafra Karen E. Smith 7. France and the Nigerian civil war, 19671970 Christopher Griffin 8. Israel, Nigeria, and the Biafra civil war 19671970 Zach Levey 9. Strange bedfellows: an unlikely alliance between the Soviet Union and Nigeria during the Biafran War Maxim Matusevich 10. West German sympathy for Biafra, 19671970: actors, perceptions and motives Florian Hannig 11. Dealing with genocide: the ICRC and the UN during the Nigeria-Biafra war, 19671970 Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps 12. Humanitarian encounters: Biafra, NGOs and imaginings of the Third World in Britain and Ireland, 19671970 Kevin OSullivan 13. And starvation is the grim reaper: the American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive and the genocide question during the Nigerian civil war, 19681970 Brian McNeil 14. Black America cares: the response of African Americans to civil war and genocide in Nigeria, 19671970 James Farquharson Section III - Trauma and memory 15. Women and the Biafra-Nigeria war Gloria Chuku 16. Biafra of the mind: MASSOB and the mobilization of history Ike Okonta 17. Memory as social burden: collective remembrance of the Biafran War and imaginations of socio-political marginalization in contemporary Nigeria Edlyne Anugwom 18. The Asaba massacre and the Nigerian civil war: reclaiming hidden history S. Elizabeth Bird and Fraser Ottanelli 19. Imagined nations and imaginary Nigeria: Chinua Achebes quest for a country Mpalive-Hangson Msiska