Author: T Akachi Ezeigbo
Publisher: Purple Shelves Publishers
ISBN: 9789789878710
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
In this monograph, the author examines women's leadership roles in three spheres of influence under women's control: Omoku, Ime Chi and Omugwo institutions and argues that there were a variety of leadership opportunities open to Igbo women in the past - some of them still exist today and will continue to exist in the years to come - through which they exerted and can still exert their influence to ensure the well-being of their families and communities.With Women and Leadership in Igboland: Omoku, Ime Chi and Omugwo Institutions, the author empowers women with the knowledge that, like their foremothers, they have a right to hold leadership positions not only in the home but also in the workplace and public space.
Women and Leadership in Igboland
Author: T Akachi Ezeigbo
Publisher: Purple Shelves Publishers
ISBN: 9789789878710
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
In this monograph, the author examines women's leadership roles in three spheres of influence under women's control: Omoku, Ime Chi and Omugwo institutions and argues that there were a variety of leadership opportunities open to Igbo women in the past - some of them still exist today and will continue to exist in the years to come - through which they exerted and can still exert their influence to ensure the well-being of their families and communities.With Women and Leadership in Igboland: Omoku, Ime Chi and Omugwo Institutions, the author empowers women with the knowledge that, like their foremothers, they have a right to hold leadership positions not only in the home but also in the workplace and public space.
Publisher: Purple Shelves Publishers
ISBN: 9789789878710
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
In this monograph, the author examines women's leadership roles in three spheres of influence under women's control: Omoku, Ime Chi and Omugwo institutions and argues that there were a variety of leadership opportunities open to Igbo women in the past - some of them still exist today and will continue to exist in the years to come - through which they exerted and can still exert their influence to ensure the well-being of their families and communities.With Women and Leadership in Igboland: Omoku, Ime Chi and Omugwo Institutions, the author empowers women with the knowledge that, like their foremothers, they have a right to hold leadership positions not only in the home but also in the workplace and public space.
Things Fall Apart
Author: Chinua Achebe
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0385474547
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
“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.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0385474547
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
“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.
Overcoming Women's Subordination in the Igbo African Culture and in the Catholic Church
Author: Rose N. Uchem
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
ISBN: 1581121334
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
"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]
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
ISBN: 1581121334
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
"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]
I, Eric Ngalle
Author: Eric Ngalle
Publisher: Parthian
ISBN: 9781912109104
Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Eric Ngalle thought he was leaving Cameroon for a better life... Instead of arriving in Belgium to study for a degree in economics he ended up in one of the last countries he would have chosen to visit--Russia. Having seen his passport stolen, Eric endured nearly two years battling a hostile environment as an illegal immigrant while struggling with the betrayal that tore his family apart and prompted his exit. This painfully honest and often brutal account of being trapped in a subculture of deceit and crime gives a rare glimpse behind the headlines of a global concern.
Publisher: Parthian
ISBN: 9781912109104
Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Eric Ngalle thought he was leaving Cameroon for a better life... Instead of arriving in Belgium to study for a degree in economics he ended up in one of the last countries he would have chosen to visit--Russia. Having seen his passport stolen, Eric endured nearly two years battling a hostile environment as an illegal immigrant while struggling with the betrayal that tore his family apart and prompted his exit. This painfully honest and often brutal account of being trapped in a subculture of deceit and crime gives a rare glimpse behind the headlines of a global concern.
The Female King of Colonial Nigeria
Author: Nwando Achebe
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253222486
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
While providing critical perspectives on women, gender, sex and sexuality, and the colonial encounter, she considers how it was possible for this woman to take on the office and responsibilities of a traditionally male role.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253222486
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
While providing critical perspectives on women, gender, sex and sexuality, and the colonial encounter, she considers how it was possible for this woman to take on the office and responsibilities of a traditionally male role.
Anthills of the Savannah
Author: Chinua Achebe
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435905385
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Annotation Achebe writes of the old Africa and the new, tribal warfare and the war that goes on in people's hearts. His story takes place two years after a military coup in the mythical West African state of Kangan, and shows the transformation of a brilliant young.
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435905385
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Annotation Achebe writes of the old Africa and the new, tribal warfare and the war that goes on in people's hearts. His story takes place two years after a military coup in the mythical West African state of Kangan, and shows the transformation of a brilliant young.
Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa
Author: Nwando Achebe
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821440802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
An unapologetically African-centered monograph that reveals physical and spiritual forms and systems of female power and leadership in African cultures. Nwando Achebe’s unparalleled study documents elite females, female principles, and female spiritual entities across the African continent, from the ancient past to the present. Achebe breaks from Western perspectives, research methods, and their consequently incomplete, skewed accounts, to demonstrate the critical importance of distinctly African source materials and world views to any comprehensible African history. This means accounting for the two realities of African cosmology: the physical world of humans and the invisible realm of spiritual gods and forces. That interconnected universe allows biological men and women to become female-gendered males and male-gendered females. This phenomenon empowers the existence of particular African beings, such as female husbands, male priestesses, female kings, and female pharaohs. Achebe portrays their combined power, influence, and authority in a sweeping, African-centric narrative that leads to an analogous consideration of contemporary African women as heads of state, government officials, religious leaders, and prominent entrepreneurs.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821440802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
An unapologetically African-centered monograph that reveals physical and spiritual forms and systems of female power and leadership in African cultures. Nwando Achebe’s unparalleled study documents elite females, female principles, and female spiritual entities across the African continent, from the ancient past to the present. Achebe breaks from Western perspectives, research methods, and their consequently incomplete, skewed accounts, to demonstrate the critical importance of distinctly African source materials and world views to any comprehensible African history. This means accounting for the two realities of African cosmology: the physical world of humans and the invisible realm of spiritual gods and forces. That interconnected universe allows biological men and women to become female-gendered males and male-gendered females. This phenomenon empowers the existence of particular African beings, such as female husbands, male priestesses, female kings, and female pharaohs. Achebe portrays their combined power, influence, and authority in a sweeping, African-centric narrative that leads to an analogous consideration of contemporary African women as heads of state, government officials, religious leaders, and prominent entrepreneurs.
Promoting Gender Equality in Political Participation
Author: Damilola Taiye Agbalajobi
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1786615215
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
The book analyses patterns of women’s political participation and evaluates disparity between levels of women’s participation in politics and representation in governance in Nigeria. It also examines the causes of women’s underrepresentation in governance and decision-making as well as their implications for the country’s socioeconomic development and describes strategies for increased women’s representation in governance and decision-making in Nigeria. This study relies on political-culture and liberal-feminist theory and adopts a mixed-method research design involving quantitative and qualitative methods. It uses multistage sampling in selecting Nigeria’s South-East, North-West and South-West geopolitical-zones and 1206 women of electoral age for the study survey conducted using structured questionnaire and in-depth interview.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1786615215
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
The book analyses patterns of women’s political participation and evaluates disparity between levels of women’s participation in politics and representation in governance in Nigeria. It also examines the causes of women’s underrepresentation in governance and decision-making as well as their implications for the country’s socioeconomic development and describes strategies for increased women’s representation in governance and decision-making in Nigeria. This study relies on political-culture and liberal-feminist theory and adopts a mixed-method research design involving quantitative and qualitative methods. It uses multistage sampling in selecting Nigeria’s South-East, North-West and South-West geopolitical-zones and 1206 women of electoral age for the study survey conducted using structured questionnaire and in-depth interview.
Women and Development in Africa
Author: Michael Kevane
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9781588262387
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Kevane explores gender issues in Africa in the context of the continent's poor economic performance.
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9781588262387
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Kevane explores gender issues in Africa in the context of the continent's poor economic performance.
Women Embodied Leaders
Author: Randal Joy Thompson
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1835494781
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Why has embodied somatic leadership more recently become highlighted, and what conditions in the world have brought this approach to leadership under study and scrutiny? Women Embodied Leaders answers these questions, analyzing models of embodied somatic leadership, and how women use this leadership from a number of perspectives.
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1835494781
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Why has embodied somatic leadership more recently become highlighted, and what conditions in the world have brought this approach to leadership under study and scrutiny? Women Embodied Leaders answers these questions, analyzing models of embodied somatic leadership, and how women use this leadership from a number of perspectives.