Book contents
- A History of the Republic of Biafra
- A History of the Republic of Biafra
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Law, Order, and the Biafran National Imagination
- 2 Sworn on the Gun: Martial Violence and Violent Crime
- 3 Counterfeit Country: Fraud and Forgery in Biafra
- 4 Burying the Hatchet: The Problems of Postwar Reintegration
- 5 A Long Heated Moment: Violent Crime in the Postwar East Central State
- 6 No Longer at Ease: Fraud and Deception in Postwar Nigeria
- Epilogue: War Crimes and Crimes of War
- Archival Collections Consulted
- Index
3 - Counterfeit Country: Fraud and Forgery in Biafra
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2020
- A History of the Republic of Biafra
- A History of the Republic of Biafra
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Law, Order, and the Biafran National Imagination
- 2 Sworn on the Gun: Martial Violence and Violent Crime
- 3 Counterfeit Country: Fraud and Forgery in Biafra
- 4 Burying the Hatchet: The Problems of Postwar Reintegration
- 5 A Long Heated Moment: Violent Crime in the Postwar East Central State
- 6 No Longer at Ease: Fraud and Deception in Postwar Nigeria
- Epilogue: War Crimes and Crimes of War
- Archival Collections Consulted
- Index
Summary
Chapter 3 analyzes how forged documents and fraudulent identities emerged in Biafra, considering how they overlapped with “legitimate” forms of official practice that the war had thrown into flux. These records show how the logics, tools, and skills of the battlefield inflected confrontations in Biafra, leading some people to survive in ways that the norms of war permitted, but the law classed as “crime.”
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- A History of the Republic of BiafraLaw, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War, pp. 111 - 151Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020