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Rethinking Nigeria's Conflicts of State Building and the Legal Imperatives Beyond Chinua Achebe's ‘There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra’

Among the lasting consequences of colonialism is the creation of a hybrid state structure that replaces the legacies of the precolonial indigenous social authority patterns with new western paradigms.Notwithstanding the very few exceptions in Africa, postcolonial states are besieged with conflicts some of which are ethnic-related or struggles to control power and natural resources.My paper examines the Nigerian conflicts as explored in Chinua Achebe's 'There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra ' (2012).The analytical work examines the uncomfortable relationship that exists between the …

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Source	OpenAlex research
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	Social Evolution & History
Date	2018-03-01
Type	article
Details	openalex authorships.countries:NG,primary topic.subfield.id:3320\|3321\|3308\|1202\|3303\|3312\|2002\|2000\|2003 + local /\bnige
Found at	https://doi.org/10.30884/seh/2018.01.09
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Rethinking Nigeria's Conflicts of State Building and the Legal Imperatives Beyond Chinua Achebe's ‘There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra’. OpenAlex research, 2018. Vero Archive, record openalex:W2803372720.