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    Nigeria a Political Review

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    Nigeria is named after the Niger River. A British journalist in the 1890s named Flora Shaw suggested the name because of the river was a dominant presence in region and the name was accepted as the official name of those territories in the Niger Region. (ANYANWU) The country can be divided into three regions that include the forest lands in the south‚ the Sudan savanna in the north‚ and the Middle Belt‚ in between. Nigeria has an extensive geographic size‚ with a large degree of ecological‚ economic

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    “For every prohibition you create‚ you also create an underground” (Biafra). John Biafra‚ who started the underground punk movement in 80s‚ thus expresses the ineffectiveness of prohibition. The fact is that in the past‚ nowadays‚ and probably in the future‚ neither of prohibitions of vital and ubiquitous elements of life had have a complete success on people. The history witnesses the prohibitions of vital elements such as ideas‚ cults‚ choices‚ and their short-term “nominal” successes. It’s called

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    citizens were not even safe in their own homes because of the fear of being killed. Nigeria was in a crisis; they were in a civil war. The civil war included three different tribes: the Biafra (Igbo) people‚ the Yoruba‚ and the Hausa-Fulani. The conflict was so bad that the United Nations had to get involved. The Biafra tribe is better known as the Igbo people. The Igbo’s land first came to contact with Portugal in the 15th centuries. There was a major market for buying and selling Igbo slaves. For the

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    English‚ a "language of colonizers"‚ in African literature. In 1975‚ his lecture An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s "Heart of Darkness" became the focus of controversy‚ for its criticism of Joseph Conrad as "a bloody racist". When the region of Biafra broke away from Nigeria in 1967‚ Achebe became a devoted supporter of Biafran independence and served as ambassador for the people of the new nation. The war ravaged the populace‚ and as starvation and violence took its toll‚ he appealed to the people

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    Ch. 19 – Southwest Asia and the Indian Ocean‚ 1500--1750 I. The Ottoman Empire Expansion and Frontiers 1. Osman established the Ottoman Empire in northwestern Anatolia in 1300. He & his successors consolidated control over Anatolia. 2. Egypt and Syria were added to the empire in 1516—1517. Suleiman the Magnificent conquered much of eastern Europe. 3. The Ottoman Empire fought w/Venice for two centuries as it attempted to exert its control over the Mediterranean.

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    This kind of policy‚ breeds not only disunity but creates insecurity. This kind of composition of the army among other things also “helped to open up Nigeria for political instability immediately after independence” (Ejiogu 2007‚ p.106). Since 1966 coup‚ only 6 years after independence – and the counter coup which started the civil war-‚ Nigeria has been ruled by different military leaders who conducted both successful and there were some unsuccessful coup d’état too (Kolawole‚ 2005). A study of

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    Butterfly pops open In a bright yellow Smear in the silicon Hardness of my vision. “Mango Seedling” is a poem dedicated to Christopher Okigbo‚ whom Achebe along with many others regarded as Nigeria’s leading poet and who was killed fighting for Biafra in 1967. Like Okigbo’s own poetry‚ it draws on a mixture of Igbo and European allusions. The poem celebrates courage and determination of Okigbo. Poised in courageous impartiality Between the primordial quarrel of Earth And sky striving bravely

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    Why do they unsettle us so? We in the civilized West know all about bestial and mindless cruelty‚ as the events of 1939-45 graphically prove. And yet as we read about Darfur and Mogadishu today and recall Rwanda and Sierra Leone not long ago‚ or Biafra and Congo further back‚ we realize that these vicious‚ bitter African conflicts have left their trace on contemporary history‚ and on contemporary consciousness‚ in ways somehow different from the usual squalid reckoning that modern warfare encourages

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    In the year of 1960‚ the nation of West Africa in Nigeria won independence from Britain and a defeated Biafra rejoined Nigeria in 1970. “Civil Peace”‚ written by Chinua Achebe‚ discloses the aftermath of the war. The author shows Johnathan Iwegbu’s success and positive thinking through dynamic characters‚ characterization‚ and characters’ motivation. Life still goes on with the obstacles of negativity and optimism. Achebe uses Johnathan’s work ethics to express dynamic characters. With the aftermath

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    Wole Soyinka Biography

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    He has periodically been visiting professor at the universities of Cambridge‚ Sheffield‚ and Yale. During the civil war in Nigeria‚ Soyinka appealed in an article for cease-fire. For this he was arrested in 1967‚ accused of conspiring with the Biafra rebels‚ and was held as a political prisoner for 22 months until 1969. Soyinka has published about 20 works: drama‚ novels and poetry. He writes in English and his literary language is marked by great scope and richness of words. As dramatist

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