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Title: | 'Resourceful and progressive blackmen': modernity and race in Biafra, 1967-70 |
Author: | Anthony, Douglas |
Year: | 2010 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History (ISSN 0021-8537) |
Volume: | 51 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 41-61 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | Nigerian-Biafran War racial conflicts propaganda |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/40985001 |
Abstract: | Propaganda from Biafra and pro-Biafran rhetoric generated by its supporters drew heavily on ideas of modernity. This continued a pattern of associations rooted in colonial-era policies and ethnic stereotypes, and also represented a deliberate rhetorical strategy aimed at both internal and external audiences. During the second half of the Nigeria-Biafra War, the concept of race assumed an increasingly prominent role in both Biafran and pro-Biafran discourse, in part because of the diminished persuasiveness of Biafran claims about Nigeria's genocidal intentions. Arguments about race dovetailed with established claims about modernity in ways that persist today. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |