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Nneka Ifejika
If history teaches us
anything, we must not forget.
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Biafra's Introduction
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Biafra
will live...again
What is Biafra?
Bravewomen
Biafran Women
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Igbo women stories
-Olikeze Egbunike
-Regina Madiebo
-Odua Uwechia
-Omekenyi Muotune
-Josephine Obika
-Matilda Osakwe
-Chinwe Uwatse
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Igbo women take on war
-Regina Madiebo
-Omekenyi Muotune
-Chinwe Uwatse
Biafran footages
-Photographs of refugees
Somewhere in Lagos
-Driving down the street
Poems
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-Poetic
reflections of their stories and my experience in Nigeria.
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Picture
Essay
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-Images
of Biafra. more >>>
My
Journey
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-Stories
and photographs of Nigeria. more >>>
West
Africa Review (May 2001)
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About the Project
What happened to Igbo
women during the Biafran War / Nigerian Civil War? Why haven't their
stories been told? Where are their voices in Nigerian history? The
project that I embarked on during my junior year was on the Nigerian
Civil War, also known as Biafra. Biafra is not a war I experienced
and though I was not born during the time, I am drawn to it because
so little has been done about it and because I want to understand
that history. My focus is on Igbo women's experiences and personal
accounts of the war. Why is that my focus? I choose this topic because
women's experiences and voices have long been omitted from history.
Biafra had a tremendous impact on Nigeria and yet so little has
been written about this impact on women. Yet, the people who played
a key crucial role in maintaining the cohesiveness of families are
women. Interestingly, historians seem to have turned a blind eye
to their experiences.
My project, "These
Women Are Brave" is significantly different from any
work that may have been done on Biafran women, thus far. First,
the project relies primarily on women's memories and personal
experiences. Second, the Internet is used to move the project
into another dimension and to give immediacy to this 34 years
story. By making this project widely accessibly, it is hoped that
the Internet will initiate a new activity in understanding and
beginning an overdue discussion on the Internet. From my discussion
with the Biafran women survivors, I have also learned that there
are so many stories of sadness, resentment, and sometimes joy.
Needless to say, no matter how sad these stories are, they need
to be told and remembered.
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Biafran
Song | War
Song
Biafran and War Song
Sung by Theresa Omekenyi Muotune, a survivor of Biafran War /
Nigerian Civil War.
These refugees
are going home after 30 months of terror. Their lives were
never quite the same after the war. Most of them have to
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Biafran
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The man
behind Biafra, Colonel Chukwuemeka Ojukwu. |
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your Stories
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This little girl speaks some 'mean'
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