Traditional Humane Living Among the Igbo

Traditional Humane Living Among the Igbo

Author: C. C. Ifemesia

Publisher: Fourth Dimension Publishing Company

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13:

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This book discusses the Igbo people's antecedents and worldview. It demonstrates the humaneness in Igbo kingship, village democracies, secret societies, age groups and title associations. It explains the Igbo way of life which is centred upon human interests and values: a mode of living characterised by empathy, consideration and compassion for human beings.


Traditional Humane Living Among the Igbo

Traditional Humane Living Among the Igbo

Author: C. C. Ifemesia

Publisher: Fourth Dimension Publishing Company

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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This book discusses the Igbo people's antecedents and worldview. It demonstrates the humaneness in Igbo kingship, village democracies, secret societies, age groups and title associations. It explains the Igbo way of life which is centred upon human interests and values: a mode of living characterised by empathy, consideration and compassion for human beings.


The Igbo Intellectual Tradition

The Igbo Intellectual Tradition

Author: G. Chuku

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-27

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1137311290

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In this groundbreaking collection, leading historians, Africanists, and other scholars document the life and work of twelve Igbo intellectuals who, educated within European traditions, came to terms with the dominance of European thought while making significant contributions to African intellectual traditions.


Igbo in the Atlantic World

Igbo in the Atlantic World

Author: Toyin Falola

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2016-09-26

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 0253022576

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The Igbo are one of the most populous ethnic groups in Nigeria and are perhaps best known and celebrated in the work of Chinua Achebe. In this landmark collection on Igbo society and arts, Toyin Falola and Raphael Chijioke Njoku have compiled a detailed and innovative examination of the Igbo experience in Africa and in the diaspora. Focusing on institutions and cultural practices, the volume covers the enslavement, middle passage, and American experience of the Igbo as well as their return to Africa and aspects of Igbo language, society, and cultural arts. By employing a variety of disciplinary perspectives, this volume presents a comprehensive view of how the Igbo were integrated into the Atlantic world through the slave trade and slavery, the transformations of Igbo identities and culture, and the strategies for resistance employed by the Igbo in the New World. Moving beyond descriptions of generic African experiences, this collection includes 21 essays by prominent scholars throughout the world.


Endangered African Knowledges and the Challenge of Modernity

Endangered African Knowledges and the Challenge of Modernity

Author: Donald Mark C. Ude

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-04-02

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1040011403

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This book presents an innovative African philosophical response to coloniality and the attendant epistemicide of Africa’s knowledge systems, drawing on Igbo thinking. This book argues that theorizing modernity requires a critical conversation between African and Western scholarship, in order to unpack its links with coloniality and the subjugation of Africa’s indigenous knowledges. In setting out this discussion, the book also connects with Latin American scholarship, demonstrating how the modern world is structured to marginalize and destroy knowledges from across the Global South. This book draws on Igbo epistemic resources of solidarity thinking, positioned in contrast to capitalist knowledge-patterns, thereby providing an important Africa-driven response to modernity and coloniality. This book concludes by arguing that the Igbo sense of solidarity is useful and relevant to modern contexts and thus constitutes a vital resource for a less disruptive, more balanced, and more wholesome modernity. At a time of considerable global crises, this book makes an important contribution to philosophy both within Africa and beyond.


The Relationship Hermeneutics in the Context of Pastoral and Catechesis - Locus for Dialogue with Culture in the Missio Ecclesiae

The Relationship Hermeneutics in the Context of Pastoral and Catechesis - Locus for Dialogue with Culture in the Missio Ecclesiae

Author: Kingsley Anagolu

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2019-04

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 3643910886

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The authority-oriented pastoral/catechetical planning method, which characterizes the African mission transmission, has been problematic as it subtly neglects in its pedagogy the culture and daily life of the subject. Hence, the people operate a Christian/cultural double standard. This book proffers an alternative as the author makes the concept of the relationship hermeneutics model to a creative writing that aims towards an empirical application in the theology of inculturation, which is a subject-oriented and dialogical method that draws its strength from the incarnation prototype.