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2019-02-19 |
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The Biafran War (1967–1970) has often been called “the forgotten war”, yet it marked
a watershed in the development of the Nigerian foreign policy, gave birth to the NGO
Médecins sans frontières and its refugee camps taught foreign journalists the intercultural
skills they were to use later to report on other African conflicts. While many books
and scholarly articles have been written on the war, its use of languages and impact
on post-war language policies have never really been considered. Using media bulletins
compiled by the author between 1968 and 1970, data collected by French journalists
and published in 1968–1969, memoirs published later by various people involved in
the humanitarian efforts of the period and songs recorded by the Biafran Red Cross
during the conflict, this chapter will reveal how war years confirmed language preferences
built during the colonial period. It will show how the necessity to communicate both
with the outside and within the Biafran enclave contributed to gradually shape language
practices, and will consider the reasons behind that choice. It will finally confirm
the huge emotional and psychological power mobilised by languages during the conflict. |
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Ugochukwu, Françoise (2019). Colonial Heritage, Identity-Building and Communication:
English and Nigerian Languages in Biafra. In: Kelly, Michael; Footitt, Hilary and
Salama-Carr, Myriam eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Languages and Conflict.
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 419–439. |
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Ugochukwu, Françoise (2019). Colonial Heritage, Identity-Building and Communication:
English and Nigerian Languages in Biafra. In: Kelly, Michael; Footitt, Hilary and
Salama-Carr, Myriam eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Languages and Conflict.
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 419–439. |
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ext-a233f55d72060f29ddd4b6c6c98ceb57 |
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Colonial Heritage, Identity-Building and Communication: English and Nigerian Languages
in Biafra |
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