Appendix 2: Chronology of the Nigerian Civil War

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Part 1. The Context
5. 1. Ken Saro-Wiwa, or “The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger” 1
6. 2. A Political Assessment: Genocide in Nigeria: The Ogoni Tragedy 17
7. Part 2. The Literary Experiments
8. 3. Literary Memoirs and Diaries: Soyinka, Amadi, and Saro-Wiwa 27
9. 4. The Poetry: Songs in a Time of War 53
10. 5. The Short Fiction: A Forest of Flowers and Adaku and Other Stories 69
11. 6. The Novel: Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English 87
12. 7. Pipe Dreams: Ken Saro-Wiwa, Environmental Justice, and Microminority Rights 109
13. 8. “Buried Beneath Six Feet of Crude Oil”: State-Sponsored Death and the Absent Body of Ken Saro-Wiwa 127
14. 9. Saro-Wiwa the Publisher 153
15. Part 4. Popular Media
16. 10. The Children’s Series 175
17. 11. Dream of Sologa, Eneka, and The Supreme Commander: The Theater of Ken Saro-Wiwa 201
18. Part 5. Epilogue
19. 12. “From This Hurt to the Unquestioning World”: Seven Poems from Delta Blues 213
20. Appendixes
21. Appendix 1: Chronology of Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Life 231
22. Appendix 2: Chronology of the Nigerian Civil War 237
23. Appendix 3: An Annotated Bibliography 245
24. The Contributors 285
25. Index 287
26. About the Book 291