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Women in the War Zone – a comparative study of  Achebe Girls at War  (1972) & Ofoegbu Blow the Fire  (1985) Francoise Ugochukwu The Open University (UK)
Literature on the  Nigerian civil War ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
The writers’ imbalance ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Achebe & Ofoegbu ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Chinua Achebe Girls at War and other stories London,  Heinemann 1972, 123p.
Leslie Ofoegbu Blow the Fire Enugu, Tana Press  1985, 167p.
Chinua Achebe’s  Girls at war and other stories ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Leslie Ofoegbu’s  Blow the fire ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Stories of displacement   ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Daily life on the move ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
A highly organised society ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Women’s stories ,[object Object],[object Object]
A family focus A/ Achebe ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Gladys, the country’s image ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
A family focus B/ Ofoegbu ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
For better, for worse ,[object Object]
Marriage & its breakdown ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Children in the war ,[object Object],[object Object]
1968-1969 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
1969-1970 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
And in the end… ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Ten years after… Ofoegbu’s testimony ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Achebe as a key  to other war stories ,[object Object]
Since then, “some of the most powerful aspects of Igbo culture and demography are reinforced through the production and circulation of collective memories of Biafra.” D.Jordan Smith, “Legacies of Biafra: marriage, ‘home people’ and reproduction among the Igbo of Nigeria” Africa 75(1) 2005: 30

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Women in the war zone

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  • 5. Chinua Achebe Girls at War and other stories London, Heinemann 1972, 123p.
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  • 24. Since then, “some of the most powerful aspects of Igbo culture and demography are reinforced through the production and circulation of collective memories of Biafra.” D.Jordan Smith, “Legacies of Biafra: marriage, ‘home people’ and reproduction among the Igbo of Nigeria” Africa 75(1) 2005: 30