Osu Caste System & the Future of Igbos in Nigeria
Author: Nnamdi Marcel Nwosu
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 157
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Author: Nnamdi Marcel Nwosu
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 157
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Victor Dike
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 0595459218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy is the Osu caste system, a form of discrimination, still deep-seated in Igboland? Are the civil and human rights of the Osu not being violated? How does the system affect global perception on Igbo culture and her civilization? The Osu Caste Discrimination in Igboland: Impact on Igbo Culture and Civilization, which is sequel to The Osu Caste System in Igboland: A Challenge for Nigerian Democracy, describes the pain, grief and agony of those groaning under the Osu caste system in Igboland. The system ascribes an inferior Osu status to the group and limits their social interaction, marriage contracts and relationship of love with the Diala. Consequently, their daily lives are tormented by the associated Osu stigma, which hinders their social mobility and progress. Any person reading this book should reflect critically on the issue and join hands to dismantle the system for justice, fairness and social progress.
Author: Victor E. Dike
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 116
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Igwebuike Romeo Okeke
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jerome Njikwulim Chukwu Okafor
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9789782204004
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Ugochukwu Opara
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2020-03-10
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 3643911122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is the conviction of Sacramentum Caritatis as well as the fathers of the Second Vatican Council that active participation at Eucharistic celebration cannot be easily disassociated from active involvement in the Church's mission in the world. This present study in the light of the foregoing presuppositions, exposes some of such challenges confronting the Afro-Igbo Christian, with special focus on the menace of the osu caste system, and proposes ways towards its eradication. One of such ways remains strengthening the Eucharistic celebration through the process of the inculturation.
Author: Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781580462426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfigbo sheds light on a dark corner of social history that has largely been neglected by historians."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-08-27
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1108895956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Republic of Biafra lasted for less than three years, but the war over its secession would contort Nigeria for decades to come. Samuel Fury Childs Daly examines the history of the Nigerian Civil War and its aftermath from an uncommon vantage point – the courtroom. Wartime Biafra was glutted with firearms, wracked by famine, and administered by a government that buckled under the weight of the conflict. In these dangerous conditions, many people survived by engaging in fraud, extortion, and armed violence. When the fighting ended in 1970, these survival tactics endured, even though Biafra itself disappeared from the map. Based on research using an original archive of legal records and oral histories, Daly catalogues how people navigated conditions of extreme hardship on the war front, and shows how the conditions of the Nigerian Civil War paved the way for the country's long experience of crime that was to follow.
Author: Ikenna Nzimiro
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-12-22
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0520325168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.
Author: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-09-04
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 0062696742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on interviews with young women who were kidnapped by Boko Haram, this poignant novel by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani tells the timely story of one girl who was taken from her home in Nigeria and her harrowing fight for survival. Includes an afterword by award-winning journalist Viviana Mazza. A new pair of shoes, a university degree, a husband—these are the things that a girl dreams of in a Nigerian village. And with a government scholarship right around the corner, everyone can see that these dreams aren’t too far out of reach. But the girl’s dreams turn to nightmares when her village is attacked by Boko Haram, a terrorist group, in the middle of the night. Kidnapped, she is taken with other girls and women into the forest where she is forced to follow her captors’ radical beliefs and watch as her best friend slowly accepts everything she’s been told. Still, the girl defends her existence. As impossible as escape may seem, her life—her future—is hers to fight for.