There Was A Country
Achebe's Final Work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2308271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Douglas B Chambers (0000-0002-5275-5427, University of Southern Mississippi) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 752-759 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Asian and African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9096 • E-ISSN: 1745-2538 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0021909613506454 |
| OpenAlex | W2066438746 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
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
Hatred · Hausa · Igbo · Political science · Resentment · Sociology · Work (physics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |