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    BLOG ARTICLE: History, Memory, and Wartime Heritage Interpretation: Insights from The Legacies of Biafra Heritage Project.

    In this piece, I discuss the first set of preliminary findings from the Legacies of Biafra Heritage Project in southeastern Nigeria. 

    This article, now published by Heriland, is based on a paper (of the same title) that I presented during the 23rd International Seminar on Heritage Interpretation and Presentation for Future Generations, held in Amsterdam, on 15th June 2023. The seminar was themed “Understanding Wartime Narratives in the Digital Age” and organised by a partnership including the Seoul National University, Our World Heritage, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Heriland.

    Read here: https://www.heriland.eu/2024/02/26/elementor-6406/


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    CONFERENCE: European Conference on African Studies (#ECAS9)

    At the just-concluded European Conference on African Studies (#ECAS9) in Cologne, I discussed family memory and heritagisation in post-conflict communities, from my ongoing PhD research on heritage and the legacies of the Biafra war.

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    ỌZỌEMENA NARRATIVE ART CONTEST

    The Centre For Memories, in collaboration with the Legacies of Biafra Heritage Project, is pleased to announce that registration has re-opened for the Ọzọemena Narrative Art Contest.

    We seek young people between the ages of 16 and 35 to engage in an artistic representation of their knowledge/memory of the Nigeria-Biafra War (1967 - 1970).

    The contest has three categories including short story writing, poetry and drawing/painting and contestants can express their knowledge/memory of the war via ANY or ALL of these means.

    There will be cash prizes for winners (1st Place - N50,000; 2nd place - N30,000; 3rd Place - N20,000, and other consolation gifts). Also, selected contestants will participate in an interactive session with War Veterans and stand a chance to have their works included in a later exhibition at the Centre For Memories gallery.

    Kindly click http://bit.ly/3NemCul to register for the contest. Deadline for registration is 11:59PM on Wednesday, 13 March 2024.

    The event is scheduled to hold as follows:

    Date: Friday 15 March 2024

    Time: 12:00 PM WAT

    Venue: 2 Awgu Street, off Umuoji Street, Independence Layout, Enugu


    NB: All who have registered will receive a confirmation email from the project team.

    For inquiries, contact 07031587185 or email lbheritageproject@gmail.com

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  • Ozoemena LBHP Questionnaire

    This 3-minute questionnaire was designed by Stanley Onyemechalu from the University of Cambridge, UK in collaboration with the Centre for Memories, Enugu as part of his doctoral research titled: Heritage & the legacies of violent conflict: The ‘Biafra war’ (1967-1970) and the people of Igboland, Nigeria. These questions aim to explore the level of intergenerational knowledge/memory transfer of the Nigeria-Biafra War among young people (Ages 16 - 35) in Igboland, Nigeria. This is completely anonymous and strictly for academic purposes. 


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    ỌZỌEMENA LEGACIES OF BIAFRA HERITAGE NARRATIVE ART CONTEST

    The Centre For Memories, in collaboration with Stanley JaChike Onyemechalu, is pleased to announce that registration has opened for the Ọzọemena narrative art contest.

    The contest is the second part of the Ọzọemena Legacies of Biafra Heritage Project that seeks to understand the level of knowledge/memory transfer from the older to the younger generation. The project forms part of Stanley’s PhD research at the University of Cambridge.

    We seek young people between the ages of 16 and 35 to engage in an artistic representation of their knowledge/memory of the Nigeria-Biafra War (1967 - 1970).

    The contest has three categories including short story writing, poetry and drawing/painting and contestants can express their knowledge/memory of the war via ANY or ALL of these means.

    There will be cash prizes for winners as well as a chance to exhibit their artworks at the Centre For Memories gallery.

    Kindly click http://bit.ly/3NemCul to register for the contest. The deadline for registration is 11:59PM on Wednesday, 5 July 2023.

    For inquiries, contact 07031587185 or lbheritageproject@gmail.com

    Please share with your contacts.

    #CentreForMemories 

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    JOURNAL ARTICLE: Long-Distance Nationalism, Diaspora Mobilisation, And The Struggle For Biafran Self-Determination In Nigeria.



    Through the lens of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in south-eastern Nigeria, and drawing on the concept of long-distance nationalism, this article broadens the erstwhile literature on secessionist agitations in post-colonial Africa by underscoring its diasporic dimension. 

    This work, published in the journal, Ethnicites, shows how the Igbo diaspora exacerbates separatist tensions in the homeland by reviving collective memories of the macabre Nigeria-Biafra war (1967–1970) and reimagining alternative political futures for ethnic Igbos devoid of the state’s grand narratives of nationhood. It contends that the diasporic dimension is profoundly critical to comprehending separatist agitations in southeastern Nigeria with implications for wider postcolonial African contexts.

    Read the full journal article here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/14687968231208307