Free Download Edlyne Eze Anugwom, "From Biafra to the Niger Delta Conflict: Memory, Ethnicity, and the State in Nigeria"
English | ISBN: 1498577989 | 2018 | 248 pages | EPUB | 1162 KB
This book analyzes the influence of memory on social conflict as well as the role of ethnicity in state formation and governance in Nigeria. It examines the nexus between the Nigerian civil war and the conflict in the oil rich Niger Delta against the background of memory and ethnicization of the state. Ultimately, both social conflicts, though separated by decades, profit from shared memories in a largely ethnicized state structure. Nigeria emerges as a centrifugal state characterized by bias in resource distribution and concentration of power in the center. These forces create the perception of marginalization and sponsor enduring memory of a biased state not helped by failure of the state to ensure closure of the civil war.
