Poison and Medicine: Ethnicity, Power, and Violence in a Nigerian City, 1966 to 1986
by Douglas A. Anthony
Category: History

A study of links between interethnic conflict and processes of reconciliation in the ethnically charged setting of Kano, northern Nigeria. It shows how Igbos renegotiated a position for themselves in the new political environment of Kano following the Nigerian Civil War of 1967-70.