CREATIVE PROCESSES AND TECHNIQUES IN A NEW GRAPHIC LITERATURE ON THE NIGERIA/BIAFRA WAR

Abstract

Between 2016 and 2023, Chidiebere Onwuekwe embarked on his doctoral journey in the Nsukka Art School. He pursued a PhD in Fine Art and Design which is a new programme in the school. Apart from the dissertation report, the findings of his reseach birthed a one hundred and forty-page graphic novel on the Nigeria/Biafra conflict. The work focused on Achuzia’s exploits as a Biafran Militia and Army officer. Soon after the approval his research topic entitled “A graphic novel of Joseph Achuzia’s Exploits in Nigeria/Biafra War, 1967 to 1970, and with the approval of his supervisor, he embarked on his first field trip to the War Museum in Umuahia where he did an achiaval research. He went into a stretching literature review on the conflict. Again, Onwuekwe conducted oral interviews on selected survivors of the War. With these endeavours successfully completed, he redeployed the data in the studio and worked on comic script, forming a storyline for the work.