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5 - A Long Heated Moment: Violent Crime in the Postwar East Central State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2020

Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Samuel Fury Childs Daly
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Duke University, North Carolina
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Chapter 5 uses legal records to describe the shape of crime in the postwar East Central State – the core of the former Biafra and the last region to fall to Nigeria – where poverty, unemployment, and a variety of social and political ills caused by the war conspired to make everyday life in the 1970s very violent and precarious.

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Nigeriaoilarmed robberymurdersexual violence
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A History of the Republic of Biafra
Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War
 , pp. 183 - 217
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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