Florence Nwando Onwusi Didigu focused her studies on female survivors of the Nigerian Civil War, which she lived through in the late 1960s
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Carolyn Byerly, Didigu’s advisor and chair of her doctorate program, said the recent graduate “embodies endurance and intellectual determination,” and praised the way she used “feminist standpoint theory” to interpret interviews she conducted with 10 female survivors.
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