The Nigerian Civil War of 1967-70: My Selected Bibliography
Yesterday, I made a promise to someone on Facebook to provide a selected bibliography on the Nigerian Civil War of 1967-70. Since then, I have had other private requests for a copy, as a result of which I took the decision to make it available publicly.
As with any historical event, there are countless books, academic papers/articles, newspaper reports, personal opinions as well as social media write-ups on what is known as the Biafran War.
The selected texts below are by no means all the fictional or non-fictional accounts of the war that are available. They are the texts (books) I have found useful in the course of my own delve into the darkest part of the history of a promising nation.
For those who may wonder, I have read each of the items below, apart from having a hard-copy library of a significant number of the texts.
| AUTHOR | YEAR | TITLE | PUBLISHER |
|---|---|---|---|
| Achebe C | 2013 | There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra | London: Penguin Books |
| Achuzia J O G | 1986 | Requiem Biafra | Enugu: Fourth Dimensions Publishers |
| Achebe C | 1973 | Christmas in Biafra and Other Poems | New York: Doubleday |
| Adekunle B | 2004 | The Nigeria Biafra War Letters: A Soldier’s Story | Phoenix Pub Group |
| Adichie C N | 2006 | Half of a Yellow Sun | London: Fourth Estate |
| Affia G B | 1970 | Nigerian Crisis 1967-1970: A Preliminary Bibliography | Lagos: University of Lagos |
| Aguolu C C | 1973 | Nigerian Civil War 1967-1970: An Annotated Bibliography | Boston: G. K. Hall |
| Ajibola W | 1978 | Foreign Policy and Public Opinion: A Case Study of British Foreign Policy over the Nigerian Civil War | Ibadan: Ibadan University Press |
| Akinyemi B | 1979 | The British Press and the Nigerian Civil War: the Godfather Complex | Ibadan: University Press |
| Akpan N | 1972 | The Struggle for Secession: A Personal Account of the Nigerian Civil War | London: Frank Cass |
| Alabi-Isama G | 2013 | The Tragedy of Victory: On-the-spot Account of the Nigeria-Biafra War in the Atlantic Theatre | Ibadan: Spectrum Books Limited |
| Amadi E | 1973 | Sunset in Biafra: A Civil War Diary | London: Heinemann |
| Aneke L N | 2007 | The Untold Story of the Nigeria-Biafra War | New York: Triumph Publishing |
| Anwunah P A | 2007 | The Nigeria-Biafra War 1967-1970: My Memoirs | Ibadan: Spectrum Books Limited |
| Asika U | ? | No Victors No Vanquished | Enugu: East-Central State Information Service |
| Awolowo O | 1981 | Awo on the Nigerian Civil War | Ikeja: John West Publications |
| Azikwe N | 1969 | Origins of the Nigerian Civil War | Apapa: Nigerian National Press |
| Azikwe N | 1969 | Peace Proposals for Ending the Nigerian Civil War | London: Colusco |
| Balogun O | 1973 | The Tragic Years: Nigeria in Crisis 1966-1970 | Benin City: Ethiope Publishing Company |
| Birch G | 1968 | Biafra: The Case for Independence | London: Britain-Biafra Association |
| Brewin A and MacDonald D | 1970 | Canada and the Biafran Tragedy | Toronto: James Lewis and Samuel |
| Cervenka Z | 1971 | The Nigerian Civil War 1967-1970: History of the War Selected Bibliography and Documents | Frankfurt am Main: Bernard & Graefe |
| Clarke J D | 1987 | Yakubu Gowon: Faith in a United Nigeria | London: Cass |
| Collis R | 1970 | Nigeria in Conflict | London: Secker & Warburg |
| De St Jorre J | 1972 | The Nigerian Civil War | London: Hodder and Stoughton |
| Draper M J | 1999 | Shadows: Airlift and Airwar in Biafra and Nigeria 1967 – 1970 | Aldershot: Hikoki Publications Limited |
| Eastern Nigeria | 1966 | The Nigerian Crisis | Enugu: Government Printer |
| Ejike B | 2003 | Weapons of Biafra: A Child’s Account of the Nigerian Civil War | Lagos: Gik Publishers Limited |
| Ekwe-Ekwe H | 1991 | The Biafra War: Nigeria and the Aftermath | Lewiston: Edwin Mellen |
| Ekwe-Ekwe H | 2006 | Biafra Revisited | Dakar: African Renaissance |
| Ekwensi C O D | 1980 | Divided We Stand: A Novel of the Nigerian Civil War | Enugu: Fourth Dimension |
| Emecheta B | 1982 | Destination Biafra: A Novel | London: Allison & Busby |
| Essien J M | 1987 | In the Shadow of Death: Personal Recollections of Events during the Nigerian Civil War | Ibadan: Heinemann Educational Books |
| Federal Ministry of Information | 1970 | Lt Col Effiong Declares that Biafra has Ceased to Exist | Lagos: Federal Ministry of Information |
| Federal Ministry of Information | 1970 | Broadcast to the Nation by the Head of the Federal Military Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Major-General Yakubu Gowon | Lagos: Federal Ministry of Information |
| Forsyth F | 1977 | The Biafra Story: The Making of An African Legend 2nd Ed | New York: Penguin Books |
| Gbulie B | 1989 | The Fall of Biafra | Enugu: Benlie |
| Gowon Y and Effiong P | 2001 | The Nigerian Civil War And Its Aftermath: Views From Within | Ibadan: John Archers Limited |
| Graham-Douglas N B | 1968 | Ojukwu’s Rebellion and World Opinion | London: Galitzine Chant Russell & Partners |
| Idahosa P E | 1989 | Truth and Tragedy: A Fighting Man’s Memoirs of the Nigerian Civil War | Ibadan: Heinemann |
| Ige B | 1995 | People Politics and Politicians of Nigeria (1940 – 1979) | Ibadan: Heinemann Educational Books |
| Iguh O T | 1977 | Last Days of Biafra | Lagos: O T Iguh |
| Ike V C | 1976 | Sunset at Dawn: A Novel about Biafra | London: Collins & Harvill Press |
| Ikpe S | 2013 | Red Belt: Biafra Rising | London: Bygfut Media Limited |
| Iroh E | 1979 | Toads of War | London: Heinemann |
| Kirk-Greene A | 1975 | The Genesis of the Nigerian Civil War and the Theory of Fear | Uppsala: The Scandinavian Institute of African Studies |
| Kirk-Greene A H M | 1971 | Crisis and Conflict in Nigeria: A Documentary Sourcebook 1966 – 1969 Vol 1 January 1966-July 1967 | London: Oxford University Press |
| Kirk-Greene A H M | 1971 | Crisis and Conflict in Nigeria: A Documentary Sourcebook 1966 – 1970 Vol 2 July 1967–January 1970 | London: Oxford University Press |
| Korieh C J (ed) | 2012 | The Nigeria-Biafra War: Genocide and the Politics of Memory | Cambria Press |
| Madiebo A | 1980 | The Nigerian Revolution and the Biafran War | Enugu: Fourth Dimension Publishers |
| Mbanefo A | 1984 | A Psychological Analysis of the Nigerian Civil War: Future Implications for Unity and Nationhood in The Civil War Years: Proceedings of the National Conference on Nigeria Since Independence Zaria March 1983 Vol III | Zaria: Gaskiya Corporation Ltd |
| Mezu S O | 1971 | Behind the Rising Sun | London: Heinemann |
| Muffett D J M | 1982 | Let Truth Be Told | Zaria: Hudahuda Pub Co |
| Nafziger E W | 1982 | The Economics of Political Instability: The Nigerian-Biafran War | Boulder Colorado: Westview Press |
| Niven R | 1970 | The War of Nigerian Unity | Ibadan: Evans Brothers Nigeria Publishers |
| Njoku H | 1987 | A Tragedy Without Heroes: The Nigeria Biafra War | Enugu: Fourth Dimension Publishing Company |
| Nwankwo A | 1972 | Nigeria: The Challenge of Biafra 3rd edn | Enugu: Fourth Dimension Publishers |
| Nwankwo A A and Ifejika S U | 1969 | The Making of a Nation: Biafra | London: C Hurst |
| Nwapa F | 1975 | Never Again | Enugu: Nwamife Publishers |
| Nweke G A | 1976 | External Intervention in African Conflicts: France and French-Speaking West Africa in the Nigerian Civil War 1967-1970 | Boston Boston University: African Studies Centre |
| Nyerere J K | 1969 | The Nigeria-Biafra Crisis | Dar es Salaam: Government Printer |
| Nzimiro I | 1982 | Nigerian Civil War: A Study in Class Conflict | Enugu: Frontline Publishing Company |
| Obasanjo O | 1980 | My Command: An Account of the Nigerian Civil War 1967-1970 | Ibadan: Heinemann |
| Obikeze D S and Ada A M | 1985 | Children and the Nigerian Civil War: A Study of the Rehabilitation Programme for War-Displaced Children | Nsukka: University of Nigeria Press |
| Obiozor G | 1993 | The United States and the Nigerian Civil War: an American Dilemma in Africa 1966-1970 | Lagos: NIIA |
| Odogwu B | 1985 | No Place to Hide: Crises and Conflicts inside Biafra | Enugu: Fourth Dimensions Publishers |
| Ogali O A | 1982 | The Return of Ojukwu and Why Biafra Lost The War | Nigeria: Ogali A Ogali |
| Ogbemudia S | 1991 | Years of Challenge | Ibadan: Heinemann |
| Ojukwu C O | 1969 | Biafra: Selected Speeches with Journals of Events | New York: Harper & Row |
| Ojukwu C O | 1969 | Ahiara Declaration: The Principles of the Biafran Revolution | Cambridge Mass: Biafra Review |
| Ojukwu E | 1989 | Because I Am Involved | Ibadan: Spectrum Books |
| Okpaku J (ed) | 1972 | Nigeria: Dilemma of Nationhood: An African Analysis of the Biafran Conflict | New York: Third Press |
| Okpi K | 1982 | Biafra Testament | Oxford: Macmillan |
| Okpoko J | 1986 | The Biafran Nightmare: The Controversial Role of International Relief Agencies in a War of Genocide | Enugu: Delta of Nigeria |
| Oluleye J | 1999 | Military Operations: The Planning and the Conduct during the Nigerian Civil War 1967-1970 | Abuja: National War College |
| Onyegbula G A | 2005 | Memoirs of the Nigerian-Biafran Bureaucrat: An Account of Life in Biafra and Within Nigeria | Ibadan: Spectrum Books |
| Opiah E A | 1972 | Why Biafra?: Aburi Prelude to Biafran Tragedy | San Rafael Calif: Leswing Press |
| Orewa G O | 1977 | We Are All Guilty – The Nigerian Crisis | Ibadan: Spectrum Books |
| Osaghae E E, Onwudiwe E and Suberu R T (eds) | 2002 | The Nigerian Civil War And Its Aftermath | Ibadan: John Archers Limited |
| Ottah N | 1981 | Rebels Against Rebels | Devon: Arthur H Stockwell Ltd |
| Oyewole F | 1975 | Reluctant Rebel | London: Rex Collins |
| Oyeweso S (ed) | 1992 | Perspectives on the Nigerian Civil War | Lagos: Campus Press Ltd |
| Panther-Brick S K (ed) | 1970 | Nigerian Politics and Military Rule: Prelude to the Civil War | London: The Athlone Press |
| Parise G | 1968 | Biafra | Milano: Libreria Feltrinelli |
| Saro-Wiwa K | 1989 | On a Darkling Plain: An Account of the Nigerian Civil War | London: Saros |
| Schabowska H and Himmelstrand U | 1978 | African Reports on the Nigerian Crisis News Attitudes and Background Information: A Study of Press Performance Government Attitude to Biafra and Ethno-Political Integration | Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies |
| Stremlau J | 1977 | The International Politics of the Nigerian Civil War 1967-1970 | Princeton: Princeton University Press |
| Sullivan J R | 1969 | Breadless Biafra | Dayton Ohio: Pflaum Press |
| **** | ? | The Aburi Report | Enugu: Government Printer |
| Thompson J | 1990 | American Policy and African Famine: the Nigerian-Biafran War 1967-1970 | New York: Greenwood Press |
| Ugobelu E | 1992 | Biafra War Revisited: A Concise Account of Events that led to the Nigerian Civil War | Atlanta GA: ProPrints of Atlanta |
| Uku S R | 1978 | The Pan-African Movement and the Nigerian Civil War | New York: Vantage |
| Usman Y B and Kwanashie G A (eds) | 1995 | Inside Nigerian History 1950-1970: Events Issues and Sources | Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University Press |
| Uwechue R | 1971 | Reflections on the Nigerian Civil War: Facing the Future | New York: Africana Publications |
| Waugh A and Cronje S | 1969 | Biafra: Britain’s Shame | London: Joseph |