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...
by Jon Silverman | May 25, 2021 | Asaba Massacre 1967
‘Creating sites of memory assumes – indeed requires – the pre-existence of a will to remember’ (Dr Andy Pearce writing about Holocaust memorialization in the UK). But memory of conflict is invariably contested, with one side erecting monuments to its victories, the...
by Ibrahim Pam | May 25, 2021 | Asaba Massacre 1967
One of the most profound moments of the public hearings of the Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission (also known as the “Oputa Panel”) in Enugu in April 2001 was the testimony of Dr. Uriah, a medical practitioner and a native of Asaba. He had been called to...
by Professor Victor Izegbu | May 24, 2021 | Asaba Massacre 1967
My earliest memory of the civil war started with the Biafran invasion of the Mid West Region. I was still at boarding school at Government College Ughelli. I remember the Biafran soldiers walking around the main administrative building of the school. We were...
by Tani A. Molajo, SAN | May 22, 2021 | Asaba Massacre 1967
“They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the Morning. We will remember them” For the following brief commentary, I have not chosen a...
by Supo Shasore SAN | May 22, 2021 | Asaba Massacre 1967
The mind of a nation is its history, history is the mind of a nation. Like individuals a sound mind is important for well being, mental health matters to humans why not to nations. To be bereft of your mind is a tragedy that no one wishes or could possibility inflict...
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