Asaba Memorial Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Bird S. Elizabeth; Ottanelli, Fraser
Publication Date
8-18-2010
Date
2009-12-16
Abstract
Oral history interview with Victoria Nwanze, a survivor of the Asaba Massacre, a mass killing of civilians which occurred in 1967 during the Nigerian Civil War. Nwanze was a student at the University of Nigeria when the war started, and returned to her family in Asaba at the end of September 1967. On October 5, when the Nigerian troops entered the city, some soldiers came to their house and took her and her family to St. Patrick's College, where they stayed until the morning of October 7--the day of the massacre. They went out with the other townspeople to welcome the troops. When they got to the plaza, the women were taken to a hospital to wait while the men were shot. After returning to their house, they went to the nearby town of Ibusa, where Nwanze and the other girls stayed until December. She was also present for another incident in March 1968, during which her grandmother's house was burned.
Keywords
Massacres--Nigeria, Crimes against humanity, History--Nigeria--Civil War, 1967-1970, History--Nigeria--Civil War, 1967-1970--Personal narratives, Asaba (Nigeria)
Subject: geographic
Asaba (Nigeria)
Holding Location
University of South Florida
Language
English
Media Type
Oral histories; Online audio
Format
audio/mp3
Identifier
A34-00014
Recommended Citation
Nwanze, Victoria, "Victoria Nwanze oral history interview" (2010). Asaba Memorial Oral History Project. 1.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/asaba/1
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