Heroes and Villains: Ijaw Nationalist Narratives of the Nigerian Civil War by Nwajiaku-Dahou, K

Demographical and twinning data of an Igbo kindred during the Nigerian civil war by Wilson I B. Onuigbo

“…Therefore, I report a personal survey carried out among my own kindred during the Nigerian civil war. Being of the harassed Igbo ethnic group, 257 of them had fled back but six of them did not return. …”
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The Peacekeeping Role of the Organization of African Unity During the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970 by Sergei V. Mazov

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The international humanitarian response to famine in Tigray, Ethiopia:lessons from the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970 by James F. Phillips, Charlotte M. Roy, Mulugeta Gebregziabher

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Ethnic Propaganda, Hate Speech, and Mass Violence in Igbo-Hausa/Fulani Relations in Postcolonial Nigeria by James Olusegun Adeyeri and Jackson A. Aluede

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A PORTRAYAL OF NIGERIAN AFTER CIVIL WAR IN CHINUA ACHEBE’S CIVIL PEACE (1971) by Anjar Dwi Astuti

“…Knowing the relation between the story and the Nigerian Civil War, it is assured that there is a history depicted in Civil Peace. …”
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The politicization of aesthetics by Joanne Denise Paranjothy

“…This essay seeks to explore the literary responses to the Nigerian civil war. The texts that will be examined over the course of the paper are, Gabriel Okara’s poem titled “Suddenly the Air Cracks”, Chinua Achebe’s poem, “Christmas in Biafra (1969)”, and Ben Okri’s short story “In the City of Red Dust”. …”
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Bodies of power: narratives of selfhood and security in Nigeria by Pratten, D

“…Also, in tracing the emergence of contemporary vigilantism in Nigeria it is tempting to point to watershed moments that link vigilantism to transition and rupture within the nation’s political fabric. The Nigerian Civil War (1967–70) is often cited as such a watershed, not least because of the subsequent availability of arms for criminal use. …”

Nationalismes dans la patrie du socialisme. Mobilisations nationales des étudiants du tiers-monde en Union soviétique by Constantin Katsakioris

“…The Kurds quitted the Iraqi student union to create a Kurdish one, Somalis supported the annexation of territories in Kenya and Ethiopia, while Biafrans fought for secession during the Nigerian Civil War. The national cause was very often much more important than the cause of socialism.…”
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Des tranchées à la mangrove : Généalogies poétiques de la Grande Guerre à la "guerre du Biafra" by Nelly Segers

“…The Nigerian Civil war broke out in 1967 a few years after independence. …”
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Time and Identity by Raisa Simola

“… The 30th of May 1997 marked the 30th anniversary of the declaration of independence by Biafra from which the Nigerian Civil War or the Biafran War (1967-1970) ensued. …”
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Post-Conflict Economies in Africa

“…Papers discuss the postconflict reconstruction in Africa; the economic and political consequences of conflict and implications for postconflict recovery in Africa; economic policy in postconflict societies; ethnicity, institutions of governance, and conflict avoidance; Liberia and Sierra Leone; the Nigerian Civil War; the economics of civil conflict in Africa and the case of Chad; conflict, postconflict, and economic performance in Ethiopia; prospects for sustainable peace and postconflict economic growth in the Sudan; the challenge of entrenching peace in postconflict economies and the case of Uganda; the challenge of transition from war to peace in Burundi; the political economy of postconfict economic recovery; transformation for postconflict Angola; and postconflict economies in Africa. …”

Interrogating the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Policies in Nigeria, 1986–2018 by Mathias Chukwudi Isiani, Ngozika Anthonia Obi-Ani, Paul Obi-Ani, Chukwudi G. Chidume, Stella Okoye-Ugwu

“…While Eurocentric literature pinpoint the Nigerian civil war and her leaders’ corruptive tendency as the prima facie, Afrocentric literatures trace the country’s economic woes to her historical processes of colonial domination and economic exploitation. …”
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Historicising Foreign Powers’ Intervention in the Nigeria–Biafra War (1967-1970) by Uwomano Okpevra

“…Most scholars erroneously refer to the war as the Nigerian civil war, but historically it was a war fought by two “independent” countries – The Republic of Nigeria and Republic of Biafra, for There was a Country, as Achebe puts it (2012). …”
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Relations between Nigeria, France and selected francophone states in West Africa, 1960-1975 by Bach, D, Bach, Daniel C.

“…Ivory Coast during the Nigerian civil war. Subsequently, Nigerian influence spread into francophone West Africa at the expense of that of Ivory Coast, a change stimulated by shifts in France's policy towards Africa. …”

Negative spaces of Mumuye figure sculpture—style and ethnicity by Richard Fardon

“…A handful of Mumuye objects were collected before the Nigerian Civil war (1967–1970) during which most of those the artworld would consider ‘authentic’ left the country. …”
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War and trauma in chimamanda ngozi adichie's half of a yellow sun and chris abani's song for night by Che Jamal, Inna Malissa

“…Half of a Yellow Sun written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Song for Night by Chris Abani are two Nigerian civil war novels filled with tragedy, human disputes and survival. …”
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The roles and consequences of foreign involvement in Nigeria’s internal violent conflicts by Emmanuel T. Eyeh, Ogechi Akure Ikem, Ubaka Cosmas Molokwu, Jonas Olisaemeka Eze, Adaobi Egbe, S. Ososhepoh Ebu, Ozioma Victoria Uchime, Chukwuka Ethelbert Nwose

“…Prominent among these were the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970), herdsmen-farmers clashes and Boko-Haram insurgency. …”
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