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The Asaba Massacre Memorial: Remembrance, Redress, and Reconciliation

The Asaba Massacre Memorial: Remembrance, Redress, and Reconciliation

by S. Elizabeth Bird and Fraser Ottanelli | May 25, 2021 | Asaba Massacre 1967

For almost a decade, we researched what happened in Asaba in 1967, examining documents and interviewing survivors and witnesses to those terrible events. We presented this research in a book, The Asaba Massacre: Trauma, Memory and the Nigerian Civil War, launched in...

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    Asaba Massacre

    The Asaba Massacre occurred in early October 1967, during the Biafran War, fought over the secession of Biafra (the predominantly-Igbo, former Eastern Region of Nigeria). Asaba (Igbo: Àhàbà) has an interesting ancestral lineage (its origin is linked to Ugboma, Ezeanyanwu, Nnebisi, and Igala in the present Kogi State) though linguistically Igbo, Asaba was never part of biafran territory.

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