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Title:Recollections of childhood experiences during the Nigerian civil war
Author:Uchendu, EgodiISNI
Year:2007
Periodical:Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
Volume:77
Issue:3
Pages:393-418
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:Nigerian-Biafran War
children
memory
External links:https://doi.org/10.3366/afr.2007.0063
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_the_journal_of_the_international_african_institute/v077/77.3uchendu.pdf
Abstract:During the three decades following the end of the Nigerian civil war (1967-1970) little attention has been given to the children who lived through the hostilities. This article on the recollections of present-day adults who experienced the crisis in their childhood, gathered by means of a qualitative research methodology, tells the story of the Nigerian civil war as the narrators perceived it in their childhoods. It probes their feelings and responses to the conflict, their lives under hostilities and some of the effects of the war on child survivors. The focus is on those in the Igbo section of Biafra, then Eastern Region, the major theatre of the war. Oral data were collected between December 2004 and February 2005 from informants between the ages of forty-two and fifty-five, persons who from 1967 to 1970 were between the ages of five and eighteen. Attention is paid to such subjects as the sensitization campaign in Eastern Region, reactions to the war outside Igboland, the recruitment of soldiers, child soldiers, military experiences, child spies, living under military hostility and the impact of the war. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract, edited]
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