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Nigerian Civil War: References & Edit History

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  • Anthony Hamilton Millard Kirk-Greene
  • J.E. Luebering
    J.E. Luebering is Senior Vice President and Acting Editor in Chief at Encyclopaedia Britannica.
  • Toyin O. Falola
    Dr. Toyin Falola is an African historian and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria and A Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters.

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Article History

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Invalidated site: University of Ohio - Origins - “No Victor and No Vanquished” - Fifty Years after the Biafran War. Jul 23, 2026
Add new Web site: Oregon State University - Origins - “No Victor and No Vanquished” - Fifty Years after the Biafran War. Apr 24, 2026
Add new Web site: Council on Foreign Relations - Fifty Years Later: U.S. Intelligence Shortcomings in the Nigerian Civil War. Mar 13, 2026
Add new Web site: University of Bristol - War and Stature: Growing Up during the Nigerian Civil War (PDF). Nov 21, 2025
Add new Web site: Digital Commons at East Tennessee State University - The Biafran War (1967-1970) and its Humanitarian Crisis. (PDF). Oct 10, 2025
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Late Night Live - Biafra and the story of the Nigerian civil war. Apr 23, 2025
Add new Web site: The Open University - OpenLearn - The Nigerian Civil War. Mar 17, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC - Remembering Nigeria's Biafra war that many prefer to forget. Dec 09, 2024
Add new Web site: National Endowment for the Humanities - Picturing the War �No One Cares About�. Sep 18, 2024
Article revised. Apr 12, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Ohio - Origins - “No Victor and No Vanquished” - Fifty Years after the Biafran War. Mar 28, 2024
Add new Web site: Ohio State University - Origins - �No Victor and No Vanquished� - Fifty Years after the Biafran War. Feb 16, 2024
Add new Web site: Black Past - Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970). Dec 05, 2023
Add new Web site: BBC - Remembering Nigeria's Biafra war that many prefer to forget. Oct 13, 2023
Add new Web site: Academia - The Nigerian Civil War. Aug 17, 2023
Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Biafra War. May 25, 2023
Media added. Mar 29, 2023
New article added. Mar 24, 2023
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