Nigerian Civil War

How much does a line on a map define us? To a marine it makes all the difference in war. It’s one country against another. To animals political lines don’t matter, as long as the land is inhabitable. Thomas King tells us in “Borders”, that some people will keep their national identity no matter the circumstances. Adewale Maja-Pearce wrote “Loyalties” to show us that it doesn’t make a difference what heritage you are, life will still be the same. These two stories explore the concept of nationality

This novel, Half a Yellow Sun, takes place in the country Nigeria during the time of the Nigerian- Biafran war in the 1960s. The biafran war was fought by the igbo tribe as they no longer wanted to be a part of the country, Nigeria. The war lasted for a little over two years. In the end Nigeria won the war. The story begins by introducing the protagonist which is an Igbo boy from Opiin. His name is Ugwu. His aunt is taking him to his new job as a houseboy. Ugwu will be working for Odenigbo who is

economic activities and their way of life, leaving a trail of injury, chaos, mayhem, and death is now all but forgotten. The war which the military expedition precipitated – the struggle for control of the Igbo interior and its markets, roads and waterways - described pessimistically by the women of Eastern Nigeria in 1929 after the Women’s Revolt as 'The First Biafra War', is now barely remembered by the Igbo peoples themselves. Nothing of the history of the period, nor of the causes of the struggle

The Biafra; Secession of The Igbos and the Issue of a Disjointed Nigeria Prelude to the War In 1914, Sir Frederick Lugard amalgamated the Northern and Southern protectorates of the British colony into one nation, present day Nigeria. This act was carried out without “due consultation of the colonies or national conference on nationhood convened for the people to work out their own destiny” . This was as a result of the scramble and partition of Africa by European powers. Each clinging to its colonies

News Media and the Coverage of Darfur Our news media is as celebrity-obsessed as the rest of the nation. And why shouldn't it be? The articles and television news coverage of celebrities is going to sell a lot more magazines and draw in a lot more viewers than something depressing and/or hard to understand like a genocide. Let's face it, when people come home from a long, hard day at work, they want to be entertained, not forced to think of the bad things happening in the world. Plus, thanks to

Civil Conflict The first of the four traps is the conflict trap. Collier defines civil war, as a development in reverse, where not only the country itself suffers from the outcomes of war but the neighbouring countries are also affected because civil wars tend to spill into its neighbour’s territories. Collier provides economic data to show how civil wars impact economic development, in which he finds that “civil war tends to reduce growth by around 2.3 percent per year, so the typical seven-year

The prevalence of mercenaries in African warfare has been continual since the first Portuguese slavers set foot in South-West Africa 500 years ago. It is difficult to find a war in Africa, especially post-World War Two, where mercenaries were not employed by at least one side, if not both. With the growth of professionalized military companies and the loss of political will to deploy conventional forces by Western countries, the usage of mercenaries is only going to increase. This growth is leading

suffering the process of imperialism; after all, “it is not because the viceroy packed up and went back to Europe does not mean that things changed all that much in the so called post- colonial setting” (2012, p. 285). Civil Peace Civil peace is a story based during the post- Nigerian Civil war. It begins a day or so after peace has been attained. The city that Johnathan the narrator of the story lives in is in a “every man for himself” situation. They oversee finding money, food, and a place to live for

that a civil war is going on there. On the other hand, others argue that it is a revolution against oppression that has been brutally responded to. Evaluating the situation in Syria requires solid understanding of specific terms of a civil war and a revolution. Also, is there a general consensus on what a civil war or a revolution is? Can the situation in Syria simply be classified into one of these two? The first important thing to know is that there is no single definition of a civil war that historians

August of 2015 (Robins-Early 5). This was an attack that occurred in the midst of the Syrian civil war, a war between the government (President Bashar al-Assad), and rebel civilians. The current civil war revolves around a conflict regarding the balance of power within the country, while an immense number of innocent civilians are being caught in the center of the violence and instability that the brutal war is causing. Over 4 million people have left the country as refugees, while some are unable