Nigerian Civil War
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The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War, Nigeria-Biafra War, or Biafra War, was an armed conflict fought between Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra, a secessionist state which had declared its independence from Nigeria in 1967. During the war years, Field Marshal Gowon served as the head of state of Nigeria, while Biafra was led by Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka "Emeka" Odumegwu Ojukwu. The conflict emerged from political, ethnic, cultural, and religious tensions that preceded the United Kingdom's formal decolonisation of Nigeria from 1960 to 1963. Immediate causes of the war in 1966 included a military coup, a counter-coup, and anti-Igbo pogroms in the Northern Region. As a consequence of these pogroms, alongside the mass exodus of surviving Igbos from the Northern Region to the Igbo homelands in the Eastern Region, the leadership of the Eastern Region concluded that the Nigerian federal government was either unwilling or unable to guarantee them an adequate protection, therefore, the only remaining solution seemed to be to secure their compatriots' security by establishing a sovereign and independent country of Biafra.
ASC Leiden - Rietveld Collection - Nigeria 1970 - 1973 - 01 - 093 New Nigerian newspaper page 7 January 1970. End of the Nigerian civil war with Biafra
Vuit d'octubre de dos mil quinze Palau de la Generalitat 32
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1967 Events montage 16-grid version- Scattered limbs, scattered stories: the silence of Biafra - , 2012
- Mission to Biafra (January 1969). A study and survey of a population under stress - scientific article published in June 1969
- ‘Ours is a war of survival’: Biafra, Nigeria and arguments about genocide, 1966–70 - , 2014
- The Nigeria–Biafra war: postcolonial conflict and the question of genocide - scholarly article by Lasse Heerten & A. Dirk Moses published 3 July 2014 in Journal of Genocide Research
- Abdominal gunshot wounds. Experiences in the care of 100 soldiers with abdominal injuries during the civil war in Biafra (Nigeria) - scientific article published on 7 September 1971, Q188
- Abdominal gunshot wounds. Experiences in the care of 100 soldiers with abdominal injuries during the civil war in Biafra (Nigeria) - scientific article published on 7 September 1971, Q188
- Chinua Achebe on Biafra: An Elaborate Deconstruction - , 2013
- Conquering the home front: radio Biafra in the Nigeria-Biafra war, 1967-1970 - scientific article published in 2018, online
- Civil Peace - short story by Chinua Achebe, English, 1971
- Reactions of the Governments of Nigeria and Biafra to the Role of the Catholic Church in the Nigeria–Biafra War - journal article; published in 2015
- Israel, Nigeria and the Biafra civil war, 1967–70 - journal article; published in 2014
- Dealing with ‘genocide’: the ICRC and the UN during the Nigeria–Biafra war, 1967–70 - , 2014
- ‘And starvation is the grim reaper’: the American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive and the genocide question during the Nigerian civil war, 1968–70 - , 2014
- Sunset in Biafra - 1973 novel by Elechi Amadi, English
| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| area | region | 1963 | Nigeria | federal republic, sovereign state, country | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 2009 | 2009 Boko Haram Uprising | rebellion | Wikidata |
| event | war | 1515 | Igala–Benin War | war, Benin Empire, Portuguese Empire, Igala Kingdom | Wikidata |
| event | war | 1630 | Aro-Ibibio Wars | series of wars | Wikidata |
| event | war | 1800 | Igbo-Igala Wars | Igbo people, series of wars, Igala Kingdom | Wikidata |
| event | war | 1967 | Nigerian Civil War | civil war | Wikidata |
| commons | image | ASC Leiden - Rietveld Collection - Nigeria 1970 - 1973 - 01 - 093 New Nigerian newspaper page 7 January 1970. End of the Nigerian civil war with Biafra | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Vuit d'octubre de dos mil quinze Palau de la Generalitat 32 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | 1960s decade montage V 4. 0 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | 1960s decade montage V 4.2 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | 1967 Events montage 16-grid version | Commons | ||
