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Marquette University

2013

Nigeria-Biafria War

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Biafra And The Discourse On The Igbo Genocide, Chima J. Korieh Dec 2013

Biafra And The Discourse On The Igbo Genocide, Chima J. Korieh

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There has been a reluctance or indifference to a systematic study and documentation of the Igbo Genocide in Nigeria. In the main, the reason has been due to official and non-official attempts to subvert a focus on an event in which more than one million Igbo were slaughtered through a process that was fomented, orchestrated, executed, and supervised by the Nigerian state.