Oral Testimony and the Nigerian Civil War Archive
- Ngozi P. Uche(corresponding author)
- Department of History and International Studies, Sample University (SAMPLE)
- * Corresponding author
- Pages
- pp. 1–24
- DOI
- Assigned once JHTS joins Crossref
- Received
- 27 February 2027
- Accepted
- 18 May 2027
- Published
- 27 June 2027
- Licence
- OA CC BY 4.0
Abstract
Official archives of the Nigerian Civil War remain incomplete, and much of what is known survives in family memory. This article analyses thirty oral testimonies collected in Enugu and Anambra States to show how survivors narrate displacement, hunger and return. It argues that oral testimony is not merely a supplement to written records but an archive with its own forms and silences, and it proposes protocols for its ethical use in historical writing.
Cite this article
Uche, N. P. (2027). Oral Testimony and the Nigerian Civil War Archive. Journal of Humanities and Transcultural Studies, 1(2), 1–24. http://localhost:3000/articles/oral-history-and-the-nigerian-civil-war-archive