ABSTRACT This article examines recent scholarship proposing the use of memory practice to remedy the traumatic aftermaths of Nigeria-Biafra War past. The assumption sustained in this scholarship is that through certain cultural memory practices such as truth commissions and commemorative rituals some form of appeasement might be reached regarding the extent of subsistence of that traumatic past. We fault these scholarly claims proposing memory as panacea to mass injustices and tragedies. In addition to the problematic proposals for using memory to remedy past atrocities in Nigeria, we observe that the question of justice is either absent or construed sometimes vaguely as one and the same with memorialisation. Accordingly, this paper further explores the place of justice in (and its implications for) this recent scholarship on Nigeria-Biafra War past. By inserting and centralising questions of justice in the discourse of that war, we seek to rethink the assumptions of memory practice as a remedy to past atrocities in Nigeria. The underlying argument of our discussion is that not only does the emphasis on memory diminish the political nature of the conflict but also that resort to memory indicates a continued reluctance to address the fundamental questions of political in/justice in Nigeria.

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反对以记忆作为对尼日利亚-比亚夫拉战争过去的创伤后果的补救：进一步的正义？

摘要本文探讨了最近的一项学术研究，该研究提出了使用记忆实践来纠正尼日利亚-比亚夫拉战争过去的创伤后果的方法。这项奖学金的假设是，通过某些文化记忆实践，例如真相委员会和纪念仪式，可以就创伤过去的生存程度达成某种形式的app靖。我们对这些将记忆视为大规模不公正和悲剧的灵丹妙药的学术主张表示怀疑。除了关于使用记忆来补救尼日利亚过去的暴行的有问题的建议之外，我们注意到，正义的问题要么不存在，要么有时被模糊地解释为与纪念相同。因此，本文进一步探讨了最近关于尼日利亚-比夫拉战争的最新奖学金的司法地位（及其对它的影响）。通过在这场战争的讨论中插入和集中正义问题，我们试图重新考虑记忆实践的假设，以弥补尼日利亚过去的暴行。我们讨论的基本论点是，不仅对记忆的重视会削弱冲突的政治性质，而且诉诸记忆表明继续不愿解决尼日利亚政治不公正的根本问题。