Women and the Nigeria-Biafra War

Reframing Gender and Conflict in Africa

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvGloria Chuku,Sussie U. Aham-Okoro

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This first comprehensive study of the Nigeria-Biafra War (1967-1970) through the lens of gender explores the valiant and gallant ways women carried out old and new responsibilities in wartime and immediate postwar Nigeria. The book presents women as embodiments of vulnerability and agency, who demonstrated remarkable resilience and initiative, waging war on all fronts in the face of precarious conditions and scarcities, and maximizing opportunities occasioned by the hostilities. Women’s experiences are highlighted through critical analyses of oral interviews, memoirs, life histories, fashion and material culture, international legal conventions, music, as well as governmental and non-governmental sources. The book fills the gap in the war scholarship that has minimized women’s complex experiences fifty years after the hostilities ended. It highlights the cost of the conflict on Nigerian women, their participation in the hostilities, and their contributions to the survival of families, communities and the country. The chapters present counter-narratives to fictional and nonfictional accounts of the war, especially those written by men, which often peripheralize or stereotypically represent women as passive spectators or helpless victims of the conflict; and also highlight and exaggerate women’s moral laxity and sensationalize their marital infidelities.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-10-07
Mått160 x 230 x 29 mm
Vikt767 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGender and Sexuality in Africa and the Diaspora
Antal sidor372
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793617842

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Part I: Writing about Warring Women in Prewar, Wartime and Postwar NigeriaChapter 1: Introduction: Writing about Women and the Nigeria-Biafra WarGloria ChukuChapter 2: Undressing to Redress: The Sexual Politics of Protests in Colonial and Post-Colonial Southeastern NigeriaBright AloziePart II: Women’s War Life Stories and MemoirsChapter 3: Becoming Biafran: The Civil War Writing of Rosina UmeloS. Elizabeth BirdChapter 4: Nwanyi B’uno: Reflections on Angelina Ihejirika’s Memoir on the Nigeria-Biafra WarChristine N. OhaleChapter5: Invisible Loss: Rose Njoku’s Narration of Familial Loss in the Nigeria-Biafra WarComfort Olajumoke Verissimo Chapter 6: Women, War Memories and Counter Memories: Stories of Survival, Resilience and Empowerment Sussie U. Aham OkoroPart III: War Conditions and Women’s Coping StrategiesChapter 7: Rape as a Moral Attack against Women in the Nigeria-Biafra WarMary Rose-Claret Ogbuehi Chapter 8: Igbo Maidens and the N

In this impressive volume, Gloria Chuku and her colleagues have provided us with an authoritative book on the gendered dimensions of the Nigeria-Biafra War— a critical subject in modern Nigerian history. Drawing on authoritative chapters across the humanities and the social sciences, this exceptional book effectively encapsulates the torturous foundation of Nigeria’s problematic post-colonial state.