Author: Austin Ifeanyichukwu Afuekwe
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Category : Alor (Anambra State, Nigeria)
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Author: Axel Harneit-Sievers
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004492232
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Local histories, written and published by non-academic historians, constitute a rapidly expanding genre in contemporary non-Western societies. However, academic historians and anthropologists usually take little notice of them. This volume takes a comparative look at local historical writing. Thirteen case studies, set in seven different countries of sub-Saharan Africa, India and Nepal, examine the authors, their books and their audiences. From different perspectives, they analyse the genre's intellectual roots, its relationship to oral historical narratives, and its relevance and impact in local and wider arenas. Local histories, it turns out, pursue a variety of agendas. They (re)construct local and communal identities affected by rapid social change. Often, they (re)write history as part of cultural and political struggles. Openly or implicitly, all of them place local communities on the map of the world at large.

Author: A. B. Jacobs
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Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Author: GMT EMEZUE
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9785244601
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 740

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Justice and Human Dignity, a collection of essays, is an assemblage of critical and well-researched essays projecting new theoretical and empirical hindsight from multidisciplinary perspectives. This books will be of special interest to academics, researchers and students of African Literature, Children's Studies, Languages and Linguistics, Religion, Media Studies, History, Economics, Finance, Political Science, Leadership and Governance, Peace and Conflict Studies, Gender Studies and Studies in African Diaspora. In all, the essays provide new and veritable insights on how past and recent issues and challenges bordering on themes of Justice and Human Dignity affect Africa and Africans in the 21st century.

Author: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Publisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: John Tokpabere Agberia
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Category : Arts, Nigerian
Languages : en
Pages : 542

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Author: Eloka Chijioke Paul Nwolisa Okanga
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Okanga (social and cultural anthropology, Catholic U. of Leuven, Belgium) explores the migration of the Igbo people of Nigeria. Drawing on research conducted in Nigeria and Belgium, he examines migration before, during, and after the colonial period; opposing ethnicities in modern Nigeria; the conditions that encourage young people to migrate to Belgium and elsewhere in Europe and the world; their experience in Belgium; and actual migration patterns. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Author: Chinua Achebe
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0385474547
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.

Author: Emmanuel M. P. Edeh
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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