Read and Download eBook Full
Author: 'Dapo Olorunyomi
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFFF is a limited edition print zine that aims to raise the steaks in fashion discourse with a healthy serving of food for thought. It's filled with recipes, reviews and recommendations from seasoned tastemakers, with step-by-step instructions for the fashion hungry.
Author:
Publisher:
Published: 1996-06-24
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
Author: Akintunde Akinyemi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-03-05
Total Pages: 1041
ISBN-13: 3030555178
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook offers the most comprehensive, analytic, and multidisciplinary study of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the African Diaspora to date. Preeminent scholars Akintunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola assemble a team of leading and rising stars across African Studies research to retrieve and renew the scholarship of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the Diaspora just as critical concerns about their survival are pushed to the forefront of the field. With five sections on the central themes within orality and folklore – including engagement ranging from popular culture to technology, methods to pedagogy – this handbook is an indispensable resource to scholars, students, and practitioners of oral traditions and folklore preservation alike. This definitive reference is the first to provide detailed, systematic discussion, and up-to-date analysis of African oral traditions and folklore.
Author: Max Siollun
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-09-01
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1787382974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the cataclysmic decade that is the focus of this book, Nigeria was subject to several near-death experiences. These began when the country nearly tore itself apart after the northern-led military government annulled the results of a 1993 presidential election won by the southerner Moshood Abiola, and ended with former military ruler General Olusegun Obasanjo being the unlikely conduit of democracy. This mini-history of a nation's life also reflects on three mesmerizing protagonists who personified that era. First up is Abiola: the multi-billionaire businessman who had his election victory voided by the generals who made him rich, and who was later assassinated. General Sani Abacha was the mysterious, reclusive ruler under whose watch Abiola was arrested and pro-democracy activists (including Abiola's wife) were murdered. He also oversaw a terrifying Orwellian state security operation. Although Abacha is today reviled as a tyrant, the author eschews selective amnesia, reminding Nigerians that they goaded him into seizing power. The third protagonist is Obasanjo, who emerged from prison to return to power as an elected civilian leader. The penumbra of military rule still looms over Nigeria nearly twenty years after the soldiers departed, and key personalities featured in this book remain in government, including the current president.
Author: Adetayo Alabi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-08-19
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1000428869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOral Forms of Nigerian Autobiography and Life Stories discusses the oral life stories and poems that Africans, particularly the Yoruba people, have told about the self and community over hundreds of years. Disproving the Eurocentric argument that Africans didn’t produce stories about themselves, the author showcases a vibrant literary tradition of oral autobiographies in Africa and the diaspora. The oral auto/biographies studied in this book show that stories and poems about individuals and their communities have always existed in various African societies and they were used to record, teach, and document history, culture, tradition, identity, and resistance. Genres covered in the book include the panegyric, witches’ and wizards’ narratives, the epithalamium tradition, the hunter’s chant, and Udje of the Urhobo. Providing an important showcase for oral narrative traditions this book will be of interest to students, scholars, and researchers in African and Africana studies, literature and auto/biographical studies.
Author: Harriet Otis-Lawrence
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Published: 2021-07-19
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 1647023041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Child Came Home: A Personal Journey Through Nigeria By: Harriet Otis-Lawrence Harriet Otis-Lawrence shares her journey of her twenty-three year stay in Nigeria. Knowing very little about Nigeria, Otis-Lawrence still decided to make the big move. During her time there, she met remarkable people and learned a lot about her ancestral identities. Otis-Lawrence’s twenty-three-year journey will help you further understand the complex culture of Nigeria.
Author: Liora Bigon
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-06-06
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 3319324853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines the discursive relations between indigenous, colonial and post-colonial legacies of place-naming in Africa in terms of the production of urban space and place. It is conducted by tracing and analysing place-naming processes, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa during colonial times (British, French, Belgian, Portuguese), with a considerable attention to both the pre-colonial and post-colonial situations. By combining in-depth area studies research – some of the contributions are of ethnographic quality – with colonial history, planning history and geography, the authors intend to show that culture matters in research on place names. This volume goes beyond the recent understanding obtained in critical studies of nomenclature, normally based on lists of official names, that place naming reflects the power of political regimes, nationalism, and ideology.
Author: Femi Ojo-Ade
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780865437906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNigeria, a country of immense natural and human resources, with the potential to actually realise the too-often meaningless notion of independence, has suffered from decades of debilitating military leadership. Covering a period of five years in the unfolding tragicomedy of Africa's most populous country, this book addresses various issues concerning Nigeria in a style filled with dark humour, pungency and perspicacity. Ojo-Ade offers a full understanding of the Nigerian dilemma and its hope for a better future.
