SexViolHist Bib: Types: Wartime Sexual Violence: Nigerian Civil War

»The Nigerian Civil War (6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970), also known as the Biafran War, was fought between Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra, a secessionist state which had declared its independence from Nigeria in 1967. Nigeria was led by General Yakubu Gowon, and Biafra by Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka "Emeka" Odumegwu Ojukwu. The conflict resulted from political, ethnic, cultural and religious tensions which preceded the United Kingdom's formal decolonisation of Nigeria from 1960 to 1963. Immediate causes of the war in 1966 included a military coup, a counter-coup, and anti-Igbo pogroms in the Northern Region. The pogroms and the exodus of surviving Igbos from the Northern Region to the Igbo homelands in the Eastern Region led the leadership of the Eastern Region (whose population was two-thirds Igbo) to conclude that the Nigerian federal government would not protect them and that they must protect themselves in an independent Biafra.« -- More information: Wikipedia

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century | II. Geographical Index: African History: Nigerian History | III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Bird, S. Elizabeth, et al. »The Asaba massacre and the Nigerian civil war: reclaiming hidden history.« Journal of Genocide Research 16 (2014): 379-399.

[Info] Ikuomola, Adediran D. »La stigmatisation des enfants nés de viols lors de la guerre civile du Nigéria (1967-1970).« Viols en temps de guerre. Edited by Raphaëlle Branche et al. Paris 2011: 177- .

[Info] Ikuomola, Adediran D. »The Nigerian Civil War of 1967 and the Stigmatisation of Children Born of Rape Victims in Edo State.« Rape in Wartime. Edited by Raphaëlle Branche et al. Basingstoke 2012: 169-183.

[Info] Ogbuehi, Mary R.-C. »Rape as a Moral Attack against Women in the Nigeria-Biafra War.« Women and the Nigeria-Biafra War: Reframing Gender and Conflict in Africa. Lanham 2020: 147-164.

[Info] Pape, Marion. Frauen schreiben Krieg. Die literarische Verarbeitung des nigerianischen Bürgerkrieges. Dissertation, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2006.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Bello, Taiwo. »Paying the Price: Women and Violence in the Nigerian Civil War, 1967–70.« 138^th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. New York 2025.

[Info] Ikuomola, Adediran D. »The Nigerian Civil War of 1967 and the Stigmatization of Children Born of Rape Victims in Edo State Nigeria.« Les viols en temps de guerre: une histoire à écrire - Rape in Wartime: A History to be Written. Paris 2009.