Visions of nationhood : prelude to the Nigerian Civil War / G.N. Uzoigwe.

• pt. 1. Nigeria's post colonial traumas, 1960-1967 -- Crisis in the Western region, 1962 : struggle for regional power -- Controversy over national census, 1962-1963 : a portend of things to come -- Federal election, 1964-1965 : democracy Nigerian style -- Western region election, October 1965 : the "Wild Wild West" at it again -- Coups and countercoups, January-July 1966 : the fall of the house that Lugard built -- Genocide and secession, May 1966-May 1967 -- pt. 2. "The end of obedience is protection" : on the social contract and Biafra (a treatise of government) -- The historicity of the social contract -- The meaning of the state : why an individual or a group should obey it : Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau -- Modern relevance : case study of Biafra -- pt. 3. Select documents -- The meeting of the Supreme Military Council at Aburi, Accra, Ghana, 4-5 January, 1967 -- The Nigeria-Biafra conflict : Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Peace Conference, 5-15 August 1968.

Ämnesord

Federal government  -- History -- 20th century -- Nigeria. (LCSH)

Nationalism  -- History -- 20th century -- Nigeria. (LCSH)

Nationalism  -- Nigeria -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Ethnic conflict  -- Nigeria -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Hausa (African people)  -- Politics and government -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Fula (African people)  -- Politics and government -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Igbo (African people)  -- Politics and government -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Yoruba (African people)  -- Politics and government -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Nigeria  -- Politics and government -- 1960-1975.

Nigeria  -- History -- Causes -- Civil War, 1967-1970.

Nigeria, Eastern  -- Politics and government -- 20th century.

Klassifikation

966.9052 (DDC)

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