Poison and Medicine

• Introduction; Ethnicity enshrined: Igbos in Hausaland; The Ironsi regime & the specter of 'Igbo domination': January-July 1966; Purging the north: August-October 1966; From 'savages' to 'bothers': official representations of the Igbo, 1966-1970; They will return': The contradictions of abandoned property; 'I need to get to Kano': post-war Igbo migration; Rebuilding community, 1970-1986; Conclusion: religion and ethnicity at century's end; Appendix: The 1996 disturbances

... a discriminating analysis of how the Ibo community returned to Kano and renegotiated a new political and economic position in the years following the Nigerian civil war of 1967-1970... . Here is a book of current as well as historical interest.