Ibo Village Affairs
Author: Margaret Mackeson Green
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0714616699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1964. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Igbo Village Affairs
Author: Margaret M. Green
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-11-12
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1136249982
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1964. With an updated preface from 1963, to include the census of 1953-54 and Eastern Nigerian law update, this is an account of the people of Igbo with material collected over two periods of field work between 1934 and 1937 in South Eastern Nigeria.
Understanding Things Fall Apart
Author: Kalu Ogbaa
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1999-01-30
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1573566675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThings Fall Apart is the most widely read and influential African novel. Published in 1958, it has sold more than eight million copies and been translated into fifty languages. African culture is not familiar to most American readers however, and this casebook provides a wealth of commentary and original materials that place the novel in its historical, social, and cultural contexts. Ogbaa, an Igbo scholar, has selected a wide variety of historical and firsthand accounts of Igbo history and cultural heritage. These accounts illuminate the historical context and issues relating to the colonization of Africa by European powers, in particular Britain's colonization of Nigeria. Fascinating materials bring to light the novel's cultural context—folkways, language and narrative customs, and traditional Igbo religion. Among the documents included are a slave narrative, interviews, journal and magazine articles, and historical essays. Each chapter is followed by questions for class discussion and ideas for student paper topics. A selection of maps and photos of Igbo culture complement the text. Following a literary analysis, historical documents trace the European powers' partition of Africa and the creation and colonization of Nigeria, home of the Igbo people. Several chapters on Igbo cultural harmony feature materials that explain the Igbo view of the world of humans and the world of the spirits, Igbo language, and traditional Igbo religion and material customs. Selections on the African novelists' novel place Things Fall Apart in the context of African literature and emphasize the difference between African and Western elements of fiction. A concluding chapter examines the debate on writing African novels in ex-colonizers' languages. This casebook will greatly enhance the reader's appreciation of the novel and understanding of Igbo history, society, culture, and civilization.
The Punishment Monopoly
Author: Pem Davidson Buck
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2019-11-22
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1583678344
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the roots of white supremacy and mass incarceration from the vantage point of history Why, asks Pem Davidson Buck, is punishment so central to the functioning of the United States, a country proclaiming “liberty and justice for all”? The Punishment Monopoly challenges our everyday understanding of American history, focusing on the constructions of race, class, and gender upon which the United States was built, and which still support racial capitalism and the carceral state. After all, Buck writes, “a state, to be a state, has to punish ... bottom line, that is what a state and the force it controls is for.” Using stories of her European ancestors, who arrived in colonial Virginia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and following their descendants into the early nineteenth century, Buck shows how struggles over the right to punish, backed by the growing power of the state governed by a white elite, made possible the dispossession of Africans, Native Americans, and poor whites. Those struggles led to the creation of the low-wage working classes that capitalism requires, locked in by a metastasizing white supremacy that Buck’s ancestors, with many others, defined as white, helped establish and manipulate. Examining those foundational struggles illuminates some of the most contentious issues of the twenty-first century: the exploitation and detention of immigrants; mass incarceration as a central institution; Islamophobia; white privilege; judicial and extra-judicial killings of people of color and some poor whites. The Punishment Monopoly makes it clear that none of these injustices was accidental or inevitable; that shifting our state-sanctioned understandings of history is a step toward liberating us from its control of the present.
The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria
Author: Daryll Forde
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-02-03
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 131529771X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoutledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.
Among the Ibos of Nigeria
Author: G.T. Basden
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-02-01
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 1136248498
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Overcoming Women's Subordination in the Igbo African Culture and in the Catholic Church
Author: Rose N. Uchem
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1581121334
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"When African scholars lament over the near destruction of African cultures, they do not reflect the reality of African women's historical traditions of empowerment and inclusion in pre-colonial/pre-Christian African societies, which were also lost in the same process of Western Christian cultural imperialism. Similarly, most male Church theologians writing or speaking about inculturation do not address the deeper cultural issues, which impact heavily on African women. ..... [from back cover]
Slavery in Africa
Author: Suzanne Miers
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780299073343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of sixteen short papers, together with a complex and very much longer introductory essay by the editors on "African 'Slavery' as an Institution of Marginality," constitutes an impressive attempt by anthropologists and historians to explore, describe, and analyze some of the various kinds of human bondage within a number of precolonial African societies. It is important to note that in spite of the precolonial emphasis of the volume, all of the essays are based at least partly on anthropological or ethnohistorical field research carried out since 1959. All but one have been augmented greatly by more conventional historical research in published as well as archival sources. And although the volume's focus is upon the structures and conditions of servitude within the several African societies described, many of the essays illustrate, and some discuss, the conceptual as well as the practical difficulties of separating the institutions and customs of "domestic" African slavery from those of the European dominated commercial slave trade in which many of the societies participated. -- from JSTOR http://www.jstor.org (May 24, 2013).
Christianity and Ibo Culture
Author: Ilogu
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1974-12
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9004665218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNigerian History, Politics and Affairs
Author: Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 736
ISBN-13: 9781592213245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese essays attempt to focus the light of history,on Nigeria, Nigerians and their contemporary,condition. The root idea here is that fundamental,to all historical works - that when the mind,interacts with the past, the result is something,like a torchlight whose beam is focused on the,present, thus enabling us to achieve a better,understanding of the problems which face us.,Afigbo has probed deep into Nigeria's pastbringing out all the facets, all the elements and,all the issues that are necessary to improve the,present.
