| ID | 127499 |
| Title Proper | There was a country |
| Other Title Information | Achebe's final work |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Chambers, Douglas B |
| Publication | 2013. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Even at a perfunctory level, a comparative look at the conflicts that took place in the US between the Union and the Confederacy and the one between Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra in 1966-1970 reveals enough to corroborate Chinua Achebe's bold charge made in his last book, There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra, that the Igbo have been wrongly persecuted in Nigeria. Confirmatory pointers to hatred and resentment of the Igbo can still be gleaned long after the Biafra War. So are those that indicate continuing marginalization of and refusal to reintegrate the Igbo, and the areas that made up the Republic of Biafra. |
| `In' analytical Note | Journal of Asian and African Studies Vol.48, No.6; Dec.2013: p.752-759 |
| Journal Source | Journal of Asian and African Studies Vol.48, No.6; Dec.2013: p.752-759 |
| Key Words | Chinua Achebe ; Biafra War ; Igbo marginalization ; US Civil War ; Nigeria ; Republic of Biafra ; Conflict ; History of Biafra |