Biafra - academic and expert comments, 1966-1970
File
Shelfmark: MSS. Perham 420
Held at the Weston Library
Comprises:
- folder 1 (fols. 1-45 and item 1) seminar papers and an article in The World Today by Martin Dent, 1966-1967
- folder 2 (fols. 1-17) 'The Nigerian Revolution' by David Williams, transcript of paper given at Chatham House on 9 Feb 1966
- folder 3 (fols. 1-21) Africa Research Limited Documentations Service numbers 3/67 and 4/68 reporting the proceedings at meetings on the Nigerian situation at Aburi and Addis Ababa, 1967-1968
- folder 4 (fols. 1-42 and items 1-2) comments on the Biafran situation by Conor Cruise O'Brien, 'A Condemned People', New York Review, 21 Dec 1967 (fols. 1-14); by a missionary in Lagos (fols. 15-22); by Dr T.O. Elias, 'Freedom of Assembly', Journal of International Commission of Jurists, Vol. VIII, No. 2, Dec 1967 (item 1); by Dr Nabo Graham-Douglas, 'Ojukwu's Rebellion and World Opinion' (item 2); by Brigadier H.C.T. Stronge, 'Biafra: Could it have happened if...' (fols. 23-27); and by Anthony Kirk-Greene, 'The War of a Thousand Days', Blackwood's Magazine, Vol. 307, No. 1853, Mar 1970 (fols. 28-42)
- folder 5 (item 1) 'The Nigerian Civil War: the background and economic and political consequences' [by Ferguson], 1968
- folder 6 (fols. 1-14) 'Biafra: unintended consequences', 'Traditions and hunger in Biafra', and 'Nigeria's Colonel Adekunle' (anonymous), the last given at a symposium in the University of the West Indies, 17 Apr 1969, 1968-1969
- folder 7 (fols. 1-33) articles by Colin Legum, including an untitled communication from Biafra; 'New Hope for Nigeria: the search for a national unity', Round Table, number 230, Apr 1968; 'Nigeria vs Biafra: on taking sides', Christianity and Crisis, 1969; and Legum's series of articles for The Observer, Sep 1969
- folder 8 (fols. 1-2 and item 1) 'The Nigeria-Biafra War' by J.C. Perkins and E.S. James, with covering letters, 1969
- folder 9 (item 1) 'Nigeria, the economy and the War', a survey by The Financial Times, 4 Aug 1969.
Dates
- Creation: 1966-1970
Extent
9 folders
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MSS. Perham 420
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
Contact:
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Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk