Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Thesis
Biafra, a country in the Nigerian Civil War, and was a symbol of independence and hope. However, Biafra failed for three main reasons. They had Deadly Military opposition from Nigeria. Their economy was ruined. And had internal issues due to differed opinions.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Source Cited
Adebanwi, Wale Death, national memory and the social construction of heroism.Cambridge University Press The Journal of African History November 2008
February 20 2008
http://infotrac.galegroup.com.sdplproxy.sandiego.gov/itw/infomark/1/1/1/purl=rc1_BRC_0_A193467761?sw_aep=san67255
Akintola was returned to office in disputed elections which were again marred by widespread violence in the Western Region. In the context of all this, some young soldiers, who were mostly of Igbo extraction, struck on 15 January 1966. In what was later described as a 'mutiny', they killed political leaders and military chiefs in Lagos, Ibadan and Kaduna. Those killed included the Prime Minister, Tafawa Balewa; the Premiers of the Northern and Western Regions, Ahmadu Bello and the man regarded as Bello's lackey in the west, Ladoke Akintola; the Federal Minister of Finance, Festus Okotie-Eboh; and ranking soldiers, including Brigadier Z. Maimalari, Brigadier S. A. Ademulegun (and his wife), Cols. R. A. Shodeinde and Kur Mohammed, Lt-Cols. J. Y. Pam, A. C. Unegbe and A. Largema.
However, a few of the coup plotters of Igbo extraction who were expected to arrest and kill, upon resistance, the Igbo Premier of the Eastern Region, Michael Okpara, and the Premier of the Mid-West Region, Dennis Osadebey, put the former under house arrest and failed even to reach the latter. This provoked the description of the coup as a 'tribal uprising'. (17) This allegation, as one of the plotters, Adewale Ademoyega states, ignored the fact that not only did some northern officers and men take part in, and approve of, the coup, but also they were 'extremely jubilant and most vociferous that the revolution should continue'. (18)
The mutiny, although hailed in most quarters as a God-send, was eventually halted by the senior cadre of the military which took over the reins of power and detained the majors who executed the coup. The head of the Nigerian Army, Major General J. T. U. Aguiyi Ironsi, an Igbo, then took over power as the head of the new military government. After establishing himself securely in office, Ironsi stated that disunity was the major crisis faced by the recently independent country. Owing to this, he announced plans to abrogate the federal system in favour of a unitary system in which the civil service was to be unified and the regions were more or less to cease to be the semi-independent parts of a federating unit. On 24 May 1966, despite opposition in the Western and Northern Regions, Ironsi promulgated Decree No. 34, 1966, which abrogated federalism and turned the regions into 'groups of provinces'. According to Ironsi, the new decree intended to 'remove the last vestiges of intense regionalism of the recent past, and ... produce that cohesion in the government structure which is so necessary in achieving and maintaining the paramount objectives of the National Military Government ... national unity'. (19)
this source helped me in learn more of the reasons behind the actions of the civil war. Like why certain things happened and whether some things needed to be done or if people just did them because they wanted to.
February 20 2008
http://infotrac.galegroup.com.sdplproxy.sandiego.gov/itw/infomark/1/1/1/purl=rc1_BRC_0_A193467761?sw_aep=san67255
Akintola was returned to office in disputed elections which were again marred by widespread violence in the Western Region. In the context of all this, some young soldiers, who were mostly of Igbo extraction, struck on 15 January 1966. In what was later described as a 'mutiny', they killed political leaders and military chiefs in Lagos, Ibadan and Kaduna. Those killed included the Prime Minister, Tafawa Balewa; the Premiers of the Northern and Western Regions, Ahmadu Bello and the man regarded as Bello's lackey in the west, Ladoke Akintola; the Federal Minister of Finance, Festus Okotie-Eboh; and ranking soldiers, including Brigadier Z. Maimalari, Brigadier S. A. Ademulegun (and his wife), Cols. R. A. Shodeinde and Kur Mohammed, Lt-Cols. J. Y. Pam, A. C. Unegbe and A. Largema.
However, a few of the coup plotters of Igbo extraction who were expected to arrest and kill, upon resistance, the Igbo Premier of the Eastern Region, Michael Okpara, and the Premier of the Mid-West Region, Dennis Osadebey, put the former under house arrest and failed even to reach the latter. This provoked the description of the coup as a 'tribal uprising'. (17) This allegation, as one of the plotters, Adewale Ademoyega states, ignored the fact that not only did some northern officers and men take part in, and approve of, the coup, but also they were 'extremely jubilant and most vociferous that the revolution should continue'. (18)
The mutiny, although hailed in most quarters as a God-send, was eventually halted by the senior cadre of the military which took over the reins of power and detained the majors who executed the coup. The head of the Nigerian Army, Major General J. T. U. Aguiyi Ironsi, an Igbo, then took over power as the head of the new military government. After establishing himself securely in office, Ironsi stated that disunity was the major crisis faced by the recently independent country. Owing to this, he announced plans to abrogate the federal system in favour of a unitary system in which the civil service was to be unified and the regions were more or less to cease to be the semi-independent parts of a federating unit. On 24 May 1966, despite opposition in the Western and Northern Regions, Ironsi promulgated Decree No. 34, 1966, which abrogated federalism and turned the regions into 'groups of provinces'. According to Ironsi, the new decree intended to 'remove the last vestiges of intense regionalism of the recent past, and ... produce that cohesion in the government structure which is so necessary in achieving and maintaining the paramount objectives of the National Military Government ... national unity'. (19)
this source helped me in learn more of the reasons behind the actions of the civil war. Like why certain things happened and whether some things needed to be done or if people just did them because they wanted to.
QQC
Q:That night, she had the first Dark Swoop: a thick blanket descended from above and pressed itself over her, firmly, while she struggled to breathe.
Q: What are these Dark Swoops, are they real or just in her head?
C:Olanna in the book talks about having dark swoops 3 or 4 times a day and she describes them as if someone is strangling her. I'm not totally sure what is happening if some one is doing this to her or if it's because of the traumatic experience she had that is causing her mind to do this to her.
Q: What are these Dark Swoops, are they real or just in her head?
C:Olanna in the book talks about having dark swoops 3 or 4 times a day and she describes them as if someone is strangling her. I'm not totally sure what is happening if some one is doing this to her or if it's because of the traumatic experience she had that is causing her mind to do this to her.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie A Novel
1. Type title and author of text
2. Give brief (3-5 sentence) plot overview (what's going on in the story)
3. Give Revolution Background (date, place, why the fight?)
4. Post a possible research question
5. Go to your group members and leave a critique of their research question
Half of the Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie A Novel
The book switches between three narrators that are all connected. Ugwu, is a servant boy of a Professor. Olanna, is the Professor's girlfriend and Richard is Olanna's sister's boyfriend. After their lives settle in, at about 150 pages the revolution breaks out and starts to affect their lives. So This all takes place in Nigeria in the sixties. And basically whats happening is a General in the government is tired of taking orders from Britain (i think) and starts to get and army together and is trying to detach Nigeria from Britain? And Everyone's been talking about it and it finally happened.
RESEARCH QUESTION:Who exactly were the Nigerians gaining independence from and why did they want to?
2. Give brief (3-5 sentence) plot overview (what's going on in the story)
3. Give Revolution Background (date, place, why the fight?)
4. Post a possible research question
5. Go to your group members and leave a critique of their research question
Half of the Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie A Novel
The book switches between three narrators that are all connected. Ugwu, is a servant boy of a Professor. Olanna, is the Professor's girlfriend and Richard is Olanna's sister's boyfriend. After their lives settle in, at about 150 pages the revolution breaks out and starts to affect their lives. So This all takes place in Nigeria in the sixties. And basically whats happening is a General in the government is tired of taking orders from Britain (i think) and starts to get and army together and is trying to detach Nigeria from Britain? And Everyone's been talking about it and it finally happened.
RESEARCH QUESTION:Who exactly were the Nigerians gaining independence from and why did they want to?
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