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The story of the Nigerian civil war, what led to it, and its impact on especially the Igbo has been told, is being told, and will continue to be told. Although, Igbo land was the central theatre of the war some peripheral areas also experienced the war and its impact. Just like the centrality of the Igbo in any discussion of the war, the historiography of the war has generally privileged male writers and male experiences since the war has often been viewed as a man's theater with little or no attention paid to the experiences of most women who belonged to communities not mapped out as areas of the theater of war. Using the qualitative research approach, this paper adopts the feminist narrative interpretation an approach to narrative grounded in both history and feminist perspective to bring to the fore the experiences of some Mbembe women during the government policy of liberation of territories. These narratives in conclusion demonstrate how an official policy became the bases of experiences ranging from especially socio-economic and psychological dislocations, but it also brings to the fore the gender insensitivity of post-war reconciliation policies

Mbembe women, Feminist narratives, Qualitative research, Victimized Feminity, Civil War,