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: Louis Nnamdi Oraka
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Igbo (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Author: Apollos O. Nwauwa
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498589693
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
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This book provides a unique insight into understanding the Igbo social, economic, and political world through comprehensive analyses of indigenous and foreign religious practices, issues surrounding women, literature, language, sexism in musical lyrics, films, and community development and government. It also explores thought-provoking cultural practices relating to marriage and divorce, reincarnation, naming, and masquerade dance. The themes covered in the book help readers appreciate the often-neglected multifaceted local and external forces that continue to shape the Igbo experience in southeastern Nigeria.
Author: Nnamdi Anacletus Odoemene
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Igbo (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Author: F. Chidozie Ọgbalụ
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Igbo (African people).
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Author: U. D. Anyanwu
Publisher: Fourth Dimension Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Published for the Centre for Igbo Studies at Abia State University, this study is the first book from the Centre. Aspects of the tradition of politics among the Igbo are examined, including religion, age, economy, history, leadership, structures, institutions, values, sex and gender. The twenty-six papers published here were presented at the First Annual Conference of the Centre, and are arranged in five parts: Theoretical Perspectives covering the meaning, content, style, purpose and values of Igbo political tradition; Political Systems focussing on case studies; Cultural Perspectives including Onomastics, patterns of religious influence, celebration of tradition of politics in Chinua Achebe's novels, gender, traditional communication and the oratorical co-efficient; Economic Perspectives; and the Contemporary Situation.
Author: Edmund Ilogu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789781603365
Category : Igbo (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Author: Rems Nna Umeasiegbu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Igbo (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Author: Victor Chikezie Uchendu
Publisher: New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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"Examines the Igbo social system and view of the world. Covers their contact with European culture and the warfare that raged within the Igbo borders."--Textbooks.com viewed Dec. 8, 2020.
Author: J. Oriji
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023011668X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
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Although the Igbo constitute one of the largest ethnic nationalities of Nigeria and the West African sub-region, little is known about their political history before the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. This book is a pioneer study of the broad changes Igbo political systems have undergone since the prehistoric period.
