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ABSTRACT
Chinua Achebe, in his iconic work on the civil war, There Was a Country, asked a fundamental question: "why has the war not been discussed, or thought to the young, forty years after its end?"[1] It is a question that was explored in the introductory paragraphs of this work. While there have been several research papers and books written on the civil war, its history is still lost to many young Nigerians, despite its impact on the country's developmental trajectory. According to the BBC, the war is often treated as an event best forgotten.[2] Yet, how can we forget such a crucial timeline in our history, especially with its significance? The study of history, after all, helps us understand why today's societies behave as they do.[3] As such, to alienate the civil war from Nigeria's historical archives because of its gruesomeness or the regret we hold about those events is to create an incomplete narrative of the Nigerian story, a narrative that, without the fundamental details of the civil war, makes it difficult to understand Nigeria as it currently is.
