A history of the Republic of Biafra, law, crime, and the Nigerian Civil War, Samuel Fury Childs Daly
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A history of the Republic of Biafra, law, crime, and the Nigerian Civil War, Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Language
eng
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
A history of the Republic of Biafra
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
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Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Series statement
Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
Sub title
law, crime, and the Nigerian Civil War
Summary
The Republic of Biafra lasted for less than three years, but the war over its secession would contort Nigeria for decades to come. Samuel Fury Childs Daly examines the history of the Nigerian Civil War and its aftermath from an uncommon vantage point - the courtroom. Wartime Biafra was glutted with firearms, wracked by famine, and administered by a government that buckled under the weight of the conflict. In these dangerous conditions, many people survived by engaging in fraud, extortion, and armed violence. When the fighting ended in 1970, these survival tactics endured, even though Biafra itself disappeared from the map. Based on research using an original archive of legal records and oral histories, Daly catalogues how people navigated conditions of extreme hardship on the war front, and shows how the conditions of the Nigerian Civil War paved the way for the country's long experience of crime that was to follow.--, Provided by publisher
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