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 Universität 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.

• Introduction1. The Nigeria-Biafra war: postcolonial conflict and the question of genocideLasse Heerten and A. Dirk MosesSection I - Genocide and the Biafran bid for self-determination2. Irreconcilable narratives: Biafra, Nigeria and arguments about genocide, 1966–1970Douglas Anthony 3. Marketing genocide: Biafran propaganda strategies during the Nigerian civil war, 1967–1970Roy Doron 4. The case against Victor Banjo: legal process and the governance of BiafraSamuel Fury Childs Daly 5. The Biafran secession and the limits of self-determinationBrad Simpson Section II - A global event6. The UK and ‘genocide’ in BiafraKaren E. Smith 7. France and the Nigerian civil war, 1967–1970Christopher Griffin 8. Israel, Nigeria, and the Biafra civil war 1967–1970Zach Levey 9. Strange bedfellows: an unlikely alliance between the Soviet Union and Nigeria during the Biafran WarMaxim Matusevich 10. West German sympathy for Biafra, 1967–1970: actors, perceptions and motivesFlorian Hannig 11. Dealing with ‘genocide’: the ICRC and the UN during the Nigeria-Biafra war, 1967–1970Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps 12. Humanitarian encounters: Biafra, NGOs and imaginings of the Third World in Britain and Ireland, 1967–1970Kevin O’Sullivan 13. ‘And starvation is the grim reaper’: the American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive and the genocide question during the Nigerian civil war, 1968–1970Brian McNeil 14. ‘Black America cares’: the response of African Americans to civil war and ‘genocide’ in Nigeria, 1967–1970James FarquharsonSection III - Trauma and memory15. Women and the Biafra-Nigeria warGloria Chuku 16. ‘Biafra of the mind’: MASSOB and the mobilization of historyIke Okonta 17. Memory as social burden: collective remembrance of the Biafran War and imaginations of socio-political marginalization in contemporary NigeriaEdlyne Anugwom 18. The Asaba massacre and the Nigerian civil war: reclaiming hidden historyS. Elizabeth Bird and Fraser Ottanelli 19. Imagined nations and imaginary Nigeria: Chinua Achebe’s quest for a countryMpalive-Hangson Msiska