Echoes of Secession:The Hero, the Rebel, and the Rhetoric of Might in Nigerian Civil War Pictorial Propaganda

by Etiido Effiong Inyang Abstract This article evaluates the nature of images that negotiated and sustained secession propaganda during the Nigerian Civil war between 1967 and 1970. More specifically, it examines the character and disposition of the constructed image of the secessionist leader Emeka Ojukwu through a variety of photographs, cartoons, and posters used during the […]