The Fathers of My Children: the Genealogy and Lifestyle Changes of the Umorens of Asong in Eastern Nigeria
The Fathers of My Children: the Genealogy and Lifestyle Changes of the Umorens of Asong in Eastern Nigeria

Author: Joseph A. Umoren

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2015-10-09

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 1514414139

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The Fathers of My Children: The Genealogy and Lifestyle Changes of the Umorens of Asong in Eastern Nigeria describes the ancestral origin of the Umorens and the existing lineal connection with all Africans in the Diaspora, regardless of their different migrational pathways in which they found themselves outside of Africa, particularly in North America. The book is also a description of the total African experience throughout human history and of the human motivation in the African voluntary and involuntary migrations. The causes and effects of such migrations are delineated to include the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, the Partition of Africa, and the Colonization and Decolonization of Africa. In part, it is a story of the African holocaust, which spans over four hundred years. While the book does not call for an African retreat from the New Wave of globalism and the individual quest for greener pastures, it serves to remind all Africans of the need to reverse African economic and cultural deprivation, the decay of the African villages and traditional lifestyles through their renewed Africanism that connects one to another and rebuilds the communities they left behind.

Culture and History of Olokoro People
Culture and History of Olokoro People

Author: Paul Okamnaonu Nwaogu

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2016-06-25

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 1524512419

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This is a book about Olokoro, our community. The account is not comprehensive, but it forms an important beginning (as other accounts before it) in the formal and permanent documentation of the history, culture, and the way of life of our people and their achievements. The community has grown from a point where its government has transformed from a mere disparate village organization to a level where a unified election dominates the process. The community is made up of diverse population with different ideological orientations that should be harnessed for the development of the community. His Royal Highness Eze J. J. Ogbulafor, Uvuoma 1 of Olokoro, took development of the community seriously as well as extolled the culture. The present dispensation of having many Ezes in Olokoro will lead to progress if properly harnessed by all and sundry. My vision for Olokoro in this regard is articulated in my autobiography (Nwaogu 2015.175). Olokoro community belongs to us all, and denizens should feel free to contribute ideas that will move our community forward. Perceptive readers are welcome, and this includes sharing of comments, suggestions, insights that will broaden our minds toward the achievement of a unified, progressive, and respectable community.

The Yoruba Traditional Healers of Nigeria
The Yoruba Traditional Healers of Nigeria

Author: Mary Adekson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-01-05

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 1135942218

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This work examines the counseling approaches and techniques used by Yoruba traditional healers of Nigeria. It also describes the functions performed by Yoruba traditional healers when they work within the Yoruba cultural milieu. The information elicited from Yoruba traditional healers through videotape and interviews was analyzed by a Nigerian woma

Brother Mine
Brother Mine

Author: Jean Toomer

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2010-06

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0252035402

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"Unusually valuable for the history of modernism. This fascinating correspondence will create further interest in Toomer, Frank, and the mixed-race environment of the 1920s."---Linda Wagner-Martin, author of Telling Women's Lives: The New Biography --

The Other Special Relationship
The Other Special Relationship

Author: R. Kelley

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-02-22

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1137392703

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The close diplomatic, economic, and military ties that comprising the "special relationship" between the United States and Great Britain have received plenty of attention from historians over the years. Less frequently noted are the countries' shared experiences of empire, white supremacy, racial inequality, and neoliberalism - and the attendant struggles for civil rights and political reform that have marked their recent history. This state-of-the-field collection traces the contours of this other "special relationship," exploring its implications for our understanding of the development of an internationally interconnected civil rights movement. Here, scholars from a range of research fields contribute essays on a wide variety of themes, from solidarity protests to calypso culture to white supremacy.

Terrorism in Africa
Terrorism in Africa

Author: Martha Crenshaw

Publisher: Dartmouth Publishing Company

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13:

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Part of a series, this work is concerned with international terrorism, and deals with its manifestation in Africa. Among the events and topics covered are: the Entebbe rescue mission; African guerillas and indigenous governments; South Africa, terrorism and state disintegration; and more.

Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria
Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria

Author: Toyin Falola

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2009-09-25

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0253003393

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Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria looks closely at the conditions that created a legacy of violence in Nigeria. Toyin Falola examines violence as a tool of domination and resistance, however unequally applied, to get to the heart of why Nigeria has not built a successful democracy. Falola's analysis centers on two phases of Nigerian history: the last quarter of the 19th century, when linkages between violence and domination were part of the British conquest; and the first half of the 20th century, which was characterized by violent rebellion and the development of a national political consciousness. This important book emphasizes the patterns that have been formed and focuses on how violence and instability have influenced Nigeria today.

Waiting in the Twilight
Waiting in the Twilight

Author: Joan Riley

Publisher: Women's Press (UK)

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13:

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This is the moving story of Adella, who moves to Jamaica where life seems to promise so much-- a respectable career and the chance of professional status as a seamstress. Adella falls in love with Stanton, whom she eventually follows to England-- and who then deserts her. Now a grandmother, Adella waits for her husband to return, haunted by memories and assessing what has been achieved over the years.

Crick Crack, Monkey
Crick Crack, Monkey

Author: Merle Hodge

Publisher: Heinemann

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780435989514

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Tee is suspended between the warmth, spontaneity and exuberance of Tantie's household and the formality and pretension of Aunt Beatrice's world, which Tee is obliged to accept when she wins a scholarship. Her initiation into the negro middle class is an uneasy one.