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Law and Its Other: The Everyday Life of Crime in Post–Civil War Nigeria

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Samuel Fury Childs Daly . A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2023

Andrew Ivaska
Andrew Ivaska*
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Associate Professor of History at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Email: andrew.ivaska@concordia.ca
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 48 , Issue 2 , May 2023 , pp. 707 - 711
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Bar Foundation

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Footnotes

He is the author of Cultured States: Youth, Gender, and Modern Style in 1960s Dar es Salaam (Duke University Press, 2011), which won the African Studies Association’s Bethwell A. Ogot Award for the best book in Eastern African History and was a finalist for the Canadian Historical Association’s Wallace K. Ferguson Prize for the best book in a field outside of Canadian History. He is currently completing a book entitled Liberation Itineraries: Dar es Salaam, Political Exile, and the Making of the 1960s.

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