DOUGLAS A.

DOUGLAS A. ANTHONY, Poison and Medicine: ethnicity, power, and violence in a Nigerian city, 1966 to 1986 Oxford: James Currey (hard shields 45.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 959 3; paperback 1795 [pound sterling] ISBN 0 85255 954 2); Portsmouth NH: Heinemann (hard screens US$67.95, ISBN 0 32507 052 0; paperback US$24.95, ISBN 0 32507 051 2) 2002 265 pp

During May-June and September-October 1966 intercommunal violence in northern Nigerian towns and cities expense the lives of thousands of Igbo. The occurrences of 1966, variously described as riots, pogrom or genocide, took

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