Biafra and humanitarian imperialism*
As we are reminded by Chinua Achebe of the atrocities that led to the Biafra War, and the horror that the war was, we should also not forget the era that it heralded – that of humanitarianism. From a 2010 article New Yorker article by Philip Gourevitch: Since Biafra, humanitarianism has become the idea, and… Read More »