Poison and Medicine: Ethnicity, Power, and Violence in a Nigerian City, 1966 to 1986
A study of links between interethnic conflict and processes of reconciliation in the ethnically charged setting of Kano, northern Nigeria. It shows how the Igbos renegotiated a position for themselves in the new political environment of Kano following the Nigerian Civil War of 1967-1970. North America: Heinemann
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An historical view of ethnic conflict in Nigeria.
AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations and Note on CurrencyIntroduction11Ethnicity Enshrined: Igbos in Hausaland312The Ironsi Regime and the Specter of "Igbo Domination": January-July 1966553Purging the North: August-October 1966864From "Savages" to "Brothers": Official Representations of the Igbo, 1966-19701195"They Will Return": The Contradictions of Abandoned Property1476"I Need to Get to Kano": Post-War Igbo Migration1757Rebuilding Community, 1970-1986217Conclusion: Religion and Ethnicity at Century's End233AppThe 1966 Disturbances245Bibliography251Index267
