Who Killed Major Nzeogwu?

Who Killed Major Nzeogwu?
Author: Charles Abi Enonchong
Publisher:
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2017-12-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781973370390

The 2017 rewrite of the 1986 bestseller, this collectors edition details untold secrets on the Major Nzeogwu led 15 January 1966 coup as well as the 29 July 1966 military coup in Nigeria.Can the assassin of a national hero be a hero? Charles Enonchong is the producer-director of the bestselling video documentary THE NIGERIAN-BIAFRAN WAR PARTS 1,2,3 & 4.

Nzeogwu

Nzeogwu
Author: Olusegun Obasanjo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1987
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The President of Nigeria, elected in 1999, gives a detailed account of his friend and colleague Chukwuma Nzeogwu, a young army officer who led the shocking and first military coup d'etat of 1966, which toppled the civilian government and heralded thirteen years of military dictatorship until the elections of 1998. Was he a genuine revolutionary or a reactionary? Was he a hero or villain? The President provides his answers to these questions which have surrounded the enigmatic and controversial Nzeogwu, and supports his views with personal letters and other documents. He describes him as idealistic and patriotic; though exhibiting more enthusiasm and naivety than wisdom or prudence.

Oil, Politics and Violence

Oil, Politics and Violence
Author: Max Siollun
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 087586709X

"An insider traces the details of hope and ambition gone wrong in the Giant of Africa, Nigeria, Africa's most populous country. When it gained independence from Britain in 1960, hopes were high that, with mineral wealth and over 140 million people, the most educated workforce in Africa, Nigeria would become Africa s first superpower and a stabilizing democratic influence in the region. However, these lofty hopes were soon dashed and the country lumbered from crisis to crisis, with the democratic government eventually being overthrown in a violent military coup in January 1966. From 1966 until 1999, the army held onto power almost uninterrupted under a succession of increasingly authoritarian military governments and army coups. Military coups and military rule (which began as an emergency aberration) became a seemingly permanent feature of Nigerian politics. The author names names, and explores how British influence aggravated indigenous rivalries. He shows how various factions in the military were able to hold onto power and resist civil and international pressure for democratic governance by exploiting the country's oil wealth and ethnic divisions to its advantage."--Publisher's description.

Broken Back Axle

Broken Back Axle
Author: Obi N. Ignatius Ebbe
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2010-10-21
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1453573623

When a country's army headquarters that is commissioned to deafeat the enemy becomes an indisputable agent of the enemey, defeat of the country is inevitable. This book is about ethnic dynamics and conflict in a multi-ethnic federation where one ethnic group sets out to eliminate an economically and academically domination one by a pogrom. The pogrom led to the secession of the oppressed ethnic group along with its minority elements in the region. In effect, a Civil War ensued. The oppressed and secessionist ethnic group, the Igbos, had the wherewithal to defeat the federal forces within three weeks, but they were internally defeated by a culture of segregation. The culturally segregated class secretly allied with the federal forces to crush the secessionist region- Biafra. The author lays down, in describing the modue operandi of the segregated class- (saboteurs), his nerve-racking experiences in the battlefiled where bonafide Biafran soldiers were hunted by their fellow comrades. Unfortunately, they did not know that they were being hunted by those they had no reason to fear. Some lucky and sincere Biafran soldiers came to know what was happening when the war was virtually over. But many did not survive the acts of sabotage. They perished in the hands of their fellow comrades. The author prescribes manifest nullification of all forms of overt and covert cultural segregation in Igbo culture for the ethnic survival. On the whole, the book demonstrates a convergence of conflict sociology, cultural anthropology, plotical history, military science, ethos of mysticism, spiritualism, and mystic philosophy in an amazing story.

Why We Struck

Why We Struck
Author: Adewale Ademoyega
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1981
Genre: Nigeria
ISBN:

The Asaba Massacre

The Asaba Massacre
Author: S. Elizabeth Bird
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2017-07-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107140781

An interdisciplinary study of the Asaba massacre, re-examining Nigerian history and enriching the understanding of post-conflict trauma and memory construction.

The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism

The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism
Author: Lasse Heerten
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2017-09-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107111803

A global history of 'Biafra', providing a new explanation for the ascendance of humanitarianism in a postcolonial world.

The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present

The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present
Author: Aribidesi Usman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2019-07-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107064600

A rich and accessible account of Yoruba history, society and culture from the pre-colonial period to the present.