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

"In the summer of 1968, audiences around the globe were shocked when newspapers and TV 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 war...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Heerten, Lasse (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Series:Human rights in history.
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