A history of the republic of Biafra : law, crime, and the Nigerian Civil War /
On May 30th 1967, Sir Louis Mbanefo brought a new country into the world. Mbanefo was a widely respected judge, known to the Nigerian public as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. To his peers in the judiciary he was a formidable moralist, a "black Englishman" who "did not mix wel...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Law, order, and the Biafran national imagination
- Sworn on the gun: martial violence and violent crime
- Counterfeit country: fraud and forgery in Biafra
- Burying the hatchet: the problems of postwar reintegration
- A long heated moment: violent crime in the east central state
- No longer at ease: fraud and deception in postwar Nigeria
- Epilogue: war crimes and crimes of war.