Biafra

The background of this conflict is entrenched in; Ethnic division, Politics and economics of federalism. The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War, 6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970, was a war fought to counter the secession of Biafra from Nigeria. Biafra represented nationalist aspirations of the Igbo people, whose leadership felt they could no longer coexist with the Northern-dominated federal government. The conflict resulted from political, economic, ethnic, cultural and religious tensions

Throughout Africa and Asia these leaders contested imperialism. Movements that constituted ethnic, religion and regions changed colonial rules while gaining imperial territories like the Quebec movement and the Biafra movement. National action that called for boycott, protest and mass demonstration attention battled its country’s imperialism and with complete support for the greater reason to gain its country’s independency. A recognized leader, Gandhi opposed

realized that people who looked like her could exist in books. Her desire to write was sparked after this realiIn 1998 Adichie’s play For Love of Biafra was published in Nigeria. She later dismissed it as “an awfully melodramatic play,” but it was among the earliest works in which she explored the war in the late 1960s between Nigeria and its secessionist Biafra republic. She later wrote several short stories about that conflict, which would become the subject of her highly successful novel Half of a

Africa is a continent made 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

Missionaries have had a profound and resounding effect on southeastern Nigeria that remains today, missionaries still playing a significant role in the culture of the Igbo. Although missionaries were initially synonymous with colonization, European coloniasts enforcing Christian ideals on the ‘save’ natives in an effort to civilize them, missionaries remained in Nigeria even after it gained its independence on October 1, 1960 through a series of constitutions legislated by the British government

The U.S. Slave Trade The United States Slave Trade, also known as the Atlantic Slave Trade, was the forced migration of Africans to the Americas and the Caribbean. These Africans were used as helping hands for agricultural fields that, most of the time, bore cotton, tobacco, and/or sugarcane. The harvesting of these crops were labor-intensive and required a huge amount of hard work. The Growth in Slave Arrivals to the U.S. About 1,500 Africans were enslaved in the British thirteen colonies by the

In “The Good Project Humanitarian Relief NGOs and the Fragmentation of Reason” (Chicago University Press 2014), Krause examined the shared space of humanitarian relief organizations; she also has done some research with comparative questions, about the forms of organization, professions, expertise, and fields of practice. She addressed how agencies manage their commitments to specific causes, people and territories. Krause mainly focuses on how organizations make decisions about how to allocate resources

Colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa Colonialism occurs when one nation takes control over a group of people or certain territories. During the Berlin Conference in 1885, the European countries divided Sub-Saharan Africa into regions that they would control. These countries included Belgian, Italy, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, and France. Most of Africa was divided and controlled by the European powers. The only independent countries at this time were Ethiopia and Liberia. These new boundaries caused

to the western continents of the atlantic was a horrific journey for them. Majority of the African immigrants came from four regions west central Africa. An eighteen percent of African immigrants came from the Bight of Biafra. The african immigrants that came from Bight of Biafra were mostly found in Maryland and Virginia. Another group of african immigrants that made up

adulthood. This includes the impact of social ostracism, having an abusive parent, and the emerging desire to become independent from the restricting orders of Papa Eugene, the father. Nevertheless, the historical context of the novel is set in post Biafra Nigeria depicting Purple Hibiscus as more than just a modern adolescent fiction novel, as it creates an intricate allegory that allows the reader to understand the complexity of the post colonial period in Nigeria. Purple Hibiscus explores the influence