The Biafran War and postcolonial humanitarianism : spectacles of suffering / Lasse Heerten, Freie Universitat Berlin.

In the summer of 1968, audiences around the globe were shocked when newspapers and television stations confronted them with photographs of starving children in the secessionist Republic of Biafra. This global concern fundamentally changed how the Nigerian Civil War was perceived: an African civil wa...

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Main Author: Heerten, Lasse (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Series:Human rights in history.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316282243
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