Nigerian Civil War

challenges the country faces today. One of the the most notable events within its history is the civil war that occurred from 1967 to 1970. This war was caused by a variety of reasons, but the main factor that brought on the onset of the war was cultural tensions. The Nigerian Civil War can be characterized by a clash of cultures vying for control of the country. To understand the events that led up to war, you have to understand the colonial history of Nigeria that contributed to its sectional tensions

Intrastate conflict has historically been savage and chaotic; nowhere have these descriptors been more fitting than within African civil wars. A legacy of colonialism, ineffective governance, and regional conflict scars the continent, resulting in regular political instability within its territories. The Nigerian civil war of the late 1960s cost the lives of an estimated three-million people- the majority of whom were civilians who succumbed to starvation (NWE 2015). This conflict has traditionally

Game of Success TOM: The Nigerian-Biafra War, Nigeria’s Civil War. The inner conflict between the Biafra region and the mainland Nigerian government began approximately seven years after gaining independence from the British on October 1st, 1960. The Nigerian Civil War also known as the Nigerian-Biafran War plummeted the country through three years of unmitigated bloodshed with a death toll of over a million people. The war initiated by the succession of the southeastern region on May 30th

up of many different countries, each with their own struggles and triumphs. There have been many conflicts and wars throughout the continent. Blood has been shed, and freedoms have been won. One of the most deadly and horrific conflicts in African history took place in the country of Nigeria. This conflict is known as the Nigerian Civil War; also referred to as the Nigerian-Biafran War. Nigeria was a country of major division and diversity within itself when it came to religion, economics, ethnicity

| Realism, Power and the Nigerian Civil War | | 211540478 | Ntsika Nduli | 3/15/2013 | | International Relations is a field of politics that takes a look at the interactions that occur in between states in the international arena. Its aim is to explain why certain events have unfolded in certain ways, as a result of how states use their power relatively to each other. Mostly the interactions that International Relations tries to examine or explain, is the conflicts that arise as a result

| Realism, Power and the Nigerian Civil War | | 211540478 | Ntsika Nduli | 3/15/2013 | | International Relations is a field of politics that takes a look at the interactions that occur in between states in the international arena. Its aim is to explain why certain events have unfolded in certain ways, as a result of how states use their power relatively to each other. Mostly the interactions that International Relations tries to examine or explain, is the conflicts that arise as

to analyze and discuss Achebe's war poems. The poems that Achebe wrote in the time of the Nigerian civil war which lasted for three years and Nigerian people suffered a lot because of that war, Ogaga Okuyade in his article Of the Versification of Pain: Nigerian Civil War Poetry states that: "The Nigerian civil war is about the ugliest moment in the history of post-colonial Nigeria – a moment of hatreds and sufferings." (Okuyade in Emenyonu. 128). Poets of civil war, including Chinua Achebe, try to

Authors have identified remote and immediate causes of the Nigerian Civil War. There were remote and immediate causes of the civil war. While the remote causes of the civil war in Nigeria are factors that imply that there were underlying factors that gradually built up overtime the tension that eventually led to the civil war, the immediate causes were simply triggers to the tension that had reached boiling point. These causes shall be summarized to include but not restricted to the following as

migrations (Alagoa). What led to the Igbo’s loss of power is better detailed because of foreign involvement. Inadequate leadership began with the British’s colonization of Igboland. Civil unrest followed British reign and power exchanged hands too often for stability. The Igbo eventually became involved in a civil war that gained international notice (Lamb 308) and finalized the Igbo’s descent. In conclusion, expansion drove the Igbo to power, with migrations

Further feelings of injustice were caused by Nigeria, changing its currency so that Biafra supplies of pre-war Nigerian currency were no longer honoured, at the end of the war; only £20 was given to any easterner despite whatever amount of money he or she had in the bank. This was applied irrespective of their banking in pre-war Nigerian currency or Biafra currency. This was seen as a deliberate policy to hold back the Igbo middle class, leaving them with little wealth