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The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism: Spectacles of Suffering

Author: Lasse Heerten

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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 war that had been fought for one year without fostering any substantial interest from the international public became ‘Biafra’ – the epitome of humanitarian crisis.

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