In My Mother’s Compound: The Consequences of the Erasure of Igbo Women’s Trauma During the Biafran War and Its Relations to the Nullification of African-American Womanist History in the United States.
- Kimberly Chiamaka Okeke (University of Pittsburgh)
Abstract
This paper argues for the importance of incorporating Black womanist historiography into national public school systems, libraries, and cultural archives in light of the recent elimination of current diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. To emphasize this argument and explore potential harms of eliminating DEI, this paper draws on the historical connections, consequences, and controversies of the lack of education on gendered violence toward Igbo women in the Biafran War (or Nigerian Civil War).
Keywords: Diverisity, Equity, Inclusion, Biafra, Africana Studies, Black Studies
How to Cite:
Okeke, K. C., (2025) “In My Mother’s Compound: The Consequences of the Erasure of Igbo Women’s Trauma During the Biafran War and Its Relations to the Nullification of African-American Womanist History in the United States.”, The Political Librarian 8(2), 119-127.
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