Post-war Igbo economic dispossession
Full article adapted from Wikipedia revision 1378439770 by Wikipedia contributors. Text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Formatting has been adapted; article text and references are retained. Snapshot imported 2026-10-09.
After the Nigerian Civil War which lasted from 1967 to 1970, the federal and states governments in Nigerian implemented decrees and policies that substantially affected the Igbo's by stripping them of their socio-economic assets, including property, and opportunities. Someof of these inlcudes currency exchange, seizure of properties, dismissal from the military, and direct exclusion from benefiting from economic reform legislation, which systemically and structurally put the Igbos at a disadvantage in the post-war Nigerian economy.[1]
See also
- Nigerian Civil War
- Biafra
- Igbo people
- Yakubu Gowon
- Obafemi Awolowo
- Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
- Nnamdi Azikiwe
References
- ^ Okwuosa, Lawrence; Nwaoga, Chinyere T.; Uroko, Favour (19 April 2021). "The post-war era in Nigeria and the resilience of Igbo communal system". Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies. 13 (1): 867. doi:10.4102/jamba.v13i1.867. PMC 8063533. PMID 33936558.
Further reading
- Obi-Ani, P. (2009). Post-Civil War Political and Economic Reconstruction of Igbo Land, 1970–1983. Great AP Publishers Ltd., Nsukka, Nigeria.
- Ojukwu, C. O. (1989). Because I am Involved. Spectrum Books.
- de St. Jorre, John (1972). The Brothers' War: Biafra and Nigeria. Houghton Mifflin.