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| Biafra is HOT! Oxford University to hold discussion on Biafra Restoration |
The University Oxford, a leading university in Britain will hold a discussion on Biafra. The discussion titled "The New Biafrans: Historical Imagination and Structural Conflict in Nigeria's Separatist Revival" will be conducted by Oliver Owen (University of Oxford).
According to the announcement buy Oxford's Changing Character of War Programme,
"the talk will outline some salient features of the separatist
agitations by groups which are reviving the movement for independence
in eastern Nigeria, tracing its roots both in discourses of history and
in contemporary politics, and drawing parallels with the conditions
which have enabled other recent insurgencies.
Olly Owen is a political anthropologist whose doctoral study at Oxford’s
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology was an ethnography of
the Nigerian Police Force. Before that, he worked in London and Lagos
with West African civil society groups, and then as an investment risk
analyst covering the West Africa sub-region. He has also worked as a
journalist and consultant. Olly's current research is a study of new
transformations in revenue and fiscal governance in Nigeria. Alongside
this, he continues a focus on policing practices in Africa and his
recent co-edited book Police in Africa: The Street Level View is
published this year by Hurst."
The event is open to the public and a light lunch will be served outside the seminar room at 12.50pm.
Biafrans especially those in the United Kingdom are encouraged to attend
the event that will take place on Tuesday, March 8, 2016 from 1:00 to
2:30pm @ Seminar Room G, Manor Road Building Oxford, OX1 3UQ.
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