Post-war Igbo economic dispossession

After the Nigerian Civil War which lasted from 1967 to 1970, the federal and states governments in Nigerian implemented decrees and policies that substantially affected the Igbo's by stripping them of their socio-economic assets, including property, and opportunities. Someof of these inlcudes currency exchange, seizure of properties, dismissal from the military, and direct exclusion from benefiting from economic reform legislation, which systemically and structurally put the Igbos at a disadvantage in the post-war Nigerian economy.

See also Nigerian Civil War Biafra Igbo people Yakubu Gowon Obafemi Awolowo Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Nnamdi Azikiwe

References

Further reading Obi-Ani, P. (2009). Post-Civil War Political and Economic Reconstruction of Igbo Land, 1970–1983. Great AP Publishers Ltd., Nsukka, Nigeria. Ojukwu, C. O. (1989). Because I am Involved. Spectrum Books. de St. Jorre, John (1972). The Brothers' War: Biafra and Nigeria. Houghton Mifflin.