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  3. The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      15 September 2017
      28 September 2017
      ISBN:
      9781316282243
      9781107111806
      9781107530423
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316282243
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.72kg, 410 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.65kg, 414 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, African Studies, Law, Regional and World History: General Interest, Human Rights, History, African History
      Series:
      Human Rights in History
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, African Studies, Law, Regional and World History: General Interest, Human Rights, History, African History
    Series:
    Human Rights in History
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    In the summer of 1968, audiences around the globe were shocked when newspapers and television stations confronted them with photographs of starving children in the secessionist Republic of Biafra. This global concern fundamentally changed how the Nigerian Civil War was perceived: an African civil war that had been fought for one year without fostering any substantial interest from international publics became 'Biafra' - the epitome of humanitarian crisis. Based on archival research from North America, Western Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa, this book is the first comprehensive study of the global history of the conflict. A major addition to the flourishing history of human rights and humanitarianism, it argues that the global moment 'Biafra' is closely linked to the ascendance of human rights, humanitarianism, and Holocaust memory in a postcolonial world. The conflict was a key episode for the re-structuring of the relations between the West and the Third World.

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