Mauricio Mbomio

Annotated Bibliographies

English 102 Section 066 Spring 2008

Instructor Anna Mikhalova

08 April 2008

CIVIL PEACE BY CHINUA ACHEBE

Uchendu, Egobi. “recollections of childhood experiences during the nigerian civil war”

Academic Search Premier 2007

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This article explains the way children were treated during and after the Nigerian civil war.

During the three years following the Nigerian civil war, little attention was given to the children of that West African country. The country was devastated by the civil war and folks just focused on how to end the situation and go back to their normal lives. The issue of taking care of children was underestimated and therefore anybody who grew up as a children in that period of time experienced crises in their childhood.

Since Jonathan has five children, I’m going to use the information I find in this article to see how Jonathan’s children experienced crises in their childhood and to identify what was the difference between children’s lives during and after the civil war.

How, Russell Worren. “Nigeria's Civil War.”

Academic Search Premier Sept 16, 1967.

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In this article Russell Worren cites the possible reasons that lead to the civil war in Nigeria. Before the Nigeria’s civil war there were several events that showed racial antagonism existing in many West African countries.

I will use information from this article to know the caused of the civil war in Nigeria and if possible identify one or more of its cultural aspect in the Nigerian society.

McKenna, Joseph C.” Elements of a Nigeria peace.”

Academic Search Premier. July 1969.

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This article enumerates the factors that should be considerate in negotiating a peace settlement in Nigeria. The Nigerian citizens felt obliged to seek for solutions to end the war. Many were the set of issues they had to face in order to put an end to the conflict. One of those issues was to convince one of the parties (either Gowon or Ojukwu to cease the fire.

This article will help me understand how people in Nigeria dealt with issue of their civil war and how they put an end to it. I will be able to know what factors put the war to an end and how they achieved it.

Home page. http://chinua-achebe.com/chenua-achebe-profile.htm.

This is the entire biography of the author of the Civil Peace, Chinua achebe. The home page described Achibe as Africa’s most Acclaim and fluent writer of the English language. It shows the influence the Nigeria’s civil war had in Achebe’s life and how it lead him write a short story about it.

Information found in this home page will be used to establish between the author and the period of time the civil war took place. I will also use it to keep track on the author’s background to notice some of the aspects that let him to write the story.

Feuser, Wilfried F. “Anomy and beyond. Nigeria's civil war in literature”

Historical Abstracts. 1984

The article discuss the impact of the Nigeria-Biafra war, 1967 -1970, on Nigeria literature and how literature of other countries illustrate the international impact of the war.

Many people believe that after the civil, the Nigeria literature changed dramatically. Because of the impact of the war, many others inclined they literary work to persuade people to achieve peace and get back to their lives. Many other authors around the continent wrote on the issue of international impact of the war.

I’m going to use information available in this article to establish the difference between the literature before and after war. Questions on how literature changes based on social events will also be answered.

Obiora Uzokwe, Alfred. “Surviving in Biafra. The Story of the Nigerian.” 2003

www.universe.com

In this book, Uzokwe tells his own story as child survivor in the Biafra war.

In the book, Uzokwe narrates how it was like to be from the eastern side of Nigeria in those moments. He gives step by step details how the conflict began and how they started to move he and his family from the capital Lagos where they were settled to the eastern side where they belonged to.

By using information from this book I will compare the story told by Achenua and the one told by Uzokwe to verify the credibility of the story I’m writing about. Since Uzokwe is telling the story in first person and he is from the same area where the war took place, the two stories will have to have a lot in common even if one is about a survival soldier and the other is about survival child. But in overall these two people have something in common, they both survived a civil war therefore the two stories will have to match in one way or the other.