The Biafran War The Struggle for Modern Nigeria.pdf

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Michael Gould holds a PhD from the School of Oriental and African

Studies (SOAS), University of London. He has lived and worked in Nigeria

and is an honorary chief of the Igbo people.

‘This book is an in-depth, scholarly and rigorous reassessment of the

traumatic Biafran War and the making of today’s Nigeria, based on the

author’s intimate personal knowledge of the region. One of its many

strengths is its profound understanding of post-colonial Nigeria and its

peoples. Another derives from the several searching interviews conducted

with many of the leading protagonists. Michael Gould has written an

excellent and genuinely enlightening book.’

Denis Judd, Professor of History, University of

New York in London

‘An outstanding account and analysis of the Nigerian Civil War (also

known as the Biafran War) … Its profound research is based on unique

personal interviews with many of the principal participants and on archival

and other primary sources, which no other author has been able to access …

Michael Gould’s outstanding study concludes with important interpretations

of Biafra’s longevity and how far genocide was a reality or a myth, along

with a notable appraisal of the history and impact of the two leaders … This

is a brilliant history of the Nigerian Civil War and, forty years later, stands

as the best analysis yet published.’

Anthony Kirk-Greene, Emeritus Fellow of

St. Antony’s College, Oxford