Essays about: "Biafra"
Found 2 essays containing the word Biafra.
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1. Southern Nigeria and the politics of memory: literary accounts on the Biafra war and the minorities’ struggle
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Afrikanska studierAbstract : The Nigeria-Biafra war (1967-70) was a critical event for the country and on an international level: furthermore, it forged forever the memory and narrative of Igbo people, authors, politicians and activists and minority groups. I chose this topic because I have always been interested in how political issues have been represented and argued in literature, how the authors and intellectuals have narrated the struggle and the fracture of such a complex nation as Nigeria and how much powerful collective memory can be for the personal and cultural story of a population. READ MORE
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2. The Biafra War: Cultural Memory in two novels of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chinelo Okparanta
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Afrikanska studierAbstract : Recently new novels about the Biafra war have appeared, proving the ongoing impact of the Nigerian civil war on writers’ interest, and the importance of memory in our life. For all these reasons, I decided to write the present thesis on how memory function in a literary work. READ MORE
