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On the intellectual landscape of the Biafran-Nigerian war, efforts have been made by scholars of different academic persuasions to present different dimensions of the tragedy. In cattiness of the spate of publications on the war, it seems that one bea in historiography that has non benefited much from the academic search-light is the area of using songs to capture the union of the experience of the people. As a veritable source of historical reconstruction, songs have been used by scholars of American slavery to reflect the past of the African slaves. Adopting inside-out modality, it provided a window by means of which we now have a clear picture of the breeding of the slaves. This is evident in the Let My People Go Spirituals, such as Didnt My Lord Deliver Daniel. This academic tilted corrected the mis office of the slaves which the White Filter approach engendered. Perhaps, it is in recognition of the usefulness of the inside-out modality that the convener of the conference on Biafran-Nigerian war rightly included as one of its sub-themes civil War and Memory. In the realm of memory, song, as a short metrical composition intended or adapt for singing, graphically mirrors the past in time and space. Evidently, in the assembly of the forms of oral tradition, song is highly recognized.



Thus, in the present dispensation, it is the civilize of the writer to use Biafran songs to make a pictorial representation of the war experience. The songs that are critical in this context are those depicting the bight of the Biafran nation, the religious inclination of the people, dirges, praises, sabotage, relief operations, etcetera The methodology adopted here is holistic and eclectic.
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Chigozie Bright NNABUIHE
part of Linguistics, African and Asian Studies,
University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.
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