Introduction
1. The Nigeria-Biafra war: postcolonial conflict and the question of genocide
Lasse Heerten and A. Dirk Moses
Section I - Genocide and the Biafran bid for self-determination
2. Irreconcilable narratives: Biafra, Nigeria and arguments about genocide, 1966-1970
Douglas Anthony
3. Marketing genocide: Biafran propaganda strategies during the Nigerian civil war, 1967-1970
Roy Doron
4. The case against Victor Banjo: legal process and the governance of Biafra
Samuel Fury Childs Daly
5. The Biafran secession and the limits of self-determination
Brad Simpson
Section II - A global event
6. The UK and 'genocide' in Biafra
Karen E. Smith
7. France and the Nigerian civil war, 1967-1970
Christopher Griffin
8. Israel, Nigeria, and the Biafra civil war 1967-1970
Zach Levey
9. Strange bedfellows: an unlikely alliance between the Soviet Union and Nigeria during the Biafran War
Maxim Matusevich
10. West German sympathy for Biafra, 1967-1970: actors, perceptions and motives
Florian Hannig
11. Dealing with 'genocide': the ICRC and the UN during the Nigeria-Biafra war, 1967-1970
Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps
12. Humanitarian encounters: Biafra, NGOs and imaginings of the Third World in Britain and Ireland, 1967-1970
Kevin O'Sullivan
13. 'And starvation is the grim reaper': the American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive and the genocide question during the Nigerian civil war, 1968-1970
Brian McNeil
14. 'Black America cares': the response of African Americans to civil war and 'genocide' in Nigeria, 1967-1970
James Farquharson
Section III - Trauma and memory
15. Women and the Biafra-Nigeria war
Gloria Chuku
16. 'Biafra of the mind': MASSOB and the mobilization of history
Ike Okonta
17. Memory as social burden: collective remembrance of the Biafran War and imaginations of socio-political marginalization in contemporary Nigeria
Edlyne Anugwom
18. The Asaba massacre and the Nigerian civil war: reclaiming hidden history
S. Elizabeth Bird and Fraser Ottanelli
19. Imagined nations and imaginary Nigeria: Chinua Achebe's quest for a country
Mpalive-Hangson Msiska