In 1967, just ​seven years after declaring independence from British colonization, a civil war erupted in Nigeria that left millions of civilians dead and the country known as the “Giant of Africa” fractured and reeling. In the decades since the conflict, historians delineated the causes and consequences of what became known as the Nigerian-Biafran War. The aim of this paper is to examine historical and academic sources about the years leading up to the war in 1967, towards a nuanced understanding of a watershed moment in Nigerian history. The article contends that for Nigeria to progress towards political stability and economic prosperity in the twenty-first century, the Nigerian-Biafran War must be re-imagined as a predictable aftermath of hegemonic colonialism and ethnicism. As such, this paper contributes to the emerging literature on the impact of the civil war on collective grief, ethnocultural relations, economics, and post-colonial history.

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比夫拉之血：重新评估尼日利亚-比夫拉战争中的政治和民族文化冲突

1967 年，也就是宣布从英国殖民统治下独立七年后，尼日利亚爆发了内战，造成数百万平民死亡，这个被称为“非洲巨人”的国家支离破碎、摇摇欲坠。在冲突发生后的几十年里，历史学家描绘了后来被称为尼日利亚-比夫拉战争的原因和后果。本文的目的是检查有关 1967 年战争前几年的历史和学术资料，以便对尼日利亚历史上的一个分水岭时刻有细致入微的理解。文章认为，尼日利亚要想在 21 世纪走向政治稳定和经济繁荣，就必须将尼日利亚-比夫拉战争重新设想为霸权殖民主义和种族主义的可预见后果。因此，