Visions of nationhood
Subtitle: prelude to the Nigerian Civil War
By: G.N. Uzoigwe
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Nigeria's post colonial traumas, 1960-1967; title: Crisis in the Western region, 1962 : struggle for regional power; title: Controversy over national census, 1962-1963 : a portend of things to come; title: Federal election, 1964-1965 : democracy Nigerian style; title: Western region election, October 1965 : the "Wild Wild West" at it again; title: Coups and countercoups, January-July 1966 : the fall of the house that Lugard built; title: Genocide and secession, May 1966-May 1967; title: pt. 2. "The end of obedience is protection" : on the social contract and Biafran secession (a treatise of government); title: The historicity of the social contract; title: The meaning of the state : why an individual or a group should obey it : Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau; title: Modern relevance : case study of Biafra; title: pt. 3. Select documents; title: The meeting of the Supreme Military Council at Aburi, Accra, Ghana, 4-5 January, 1967; title: The Nigeria-Biafra conflict : Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Peace Conference, 5-15 August 1968.