Anthony Hamilton Millard Kirk-Greene
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Emeritus Lecturer in the Modern History of Africa, University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford. Author of Crisis and Conflict in Nigeria, 1966–1967 and others.
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Nigerian Civil War, war between Nigeria’s federal government and the secessionist state Biafra that lasted from 1967 to 1970. Nigeria became an independent country on October 1, 1960. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was its first federal prime minister—he had held that position since 1957—and Nnamdi Azikiwe…
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