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ABSTRACT
After 50 years since the inception of Nigeria’s civil war, how successful have been efforts to promote reconciliation? This article first considers the claims made by both sides about the war’s nature. In the Nigerian setting, necessary measures for conflict resolution extended well beyond the amnesties and reconstruction provisions available in the war’s aftermath. In a democratic Nigeria neo-Biafran revival raises questions about the efficacy of official policies of re-integration. The reimagining of Biafra also highlights failure to shape a consensual public memory of the conflict.
Note on Contributor
Tom Lodge is professor of Peace and Conflict Studies in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Limerick and an honorary professor at the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Notes
1. ‘Biafra: The last hope of independent Africa’, R. West, Sunday Times Magazine 1 June 1969: 31.
2. Ibid: 34.
3. ‘Why Biafran leaders should surrender’, M. Perham, The Times 11 September 1968.
4. ‘Lies Achebe told about the civil war by Gen. Alabi Isama’, G. Aderanti, The Nation 24 November 2011 <http://thenationonlineng.net/lies-achebe-told-about-the-civil-war-by-gen-alabi-isama/>. See also Bird & Ottanelli (2017: 13).
5. From US Department of State Online Archive: Foreign relations 1969/1976, Volume E5 Documents on Africa, 1969–1972. Telegram from the American Embassy, Lagos to Secretary of State, OP 291255Z Jan 1970. Subject: Report of trip through Eastern sector of Biafran Enclave, 25–28 January 1970.
6. ‘How Ireland got involved in a Nigerian civil war’, J. Horgan, Irish Times 20 May 2017.
7. ‘Biafran secessionist movement grows stronger in Nigeria’, C. Oduah, VoA News 28 May 2017 <https://www.voanews.com/a/biafran-secessionist-movement-grows-nigeria/3873873.html>.