Author: Joshua Omeke
Publisher: KDP
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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The Middle Belt of Enlightenment is a non-fiction memoir that discusses the author's experience of parenting while growing up in his community and the susceptible knowledge he had come to acquire over time. In each chapter, the author discloses severe techniques that can advance parenting. And also revealed his ideology that has helped others develop skills that could advance their approach towards parenting, nurturing mentees and personal development. lis true some may not want to be parents but the knowledge in this memoir is highly recommended as regardless of our choices we will be surrounded with children someday and it is of the essence we are remembered for our impartation. The author is to be applauded for sticking to the first person pronoun across the memoir and use of metaphors, quotes, and narrative approach in telling his experiences.
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: Julius Adekunle
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Author: Toyin Falola
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108837972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 691
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An introduction to the politics and society of post-colonial Nigeria, highlighting the key themes of ethnicity, democracy, and development.
Author: Bronwen Manby
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564322258
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Attempts to Import Weapons
Author: Carol V. McKinney
Publisher: SIL International
ISBN: 1556714440
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Why have large numbers of the Bajju people of the Middle Belt of Nigeria become Christians? The first conversions occurred in 1929 and today almost one hundred percent of the Bajju claim to be Christians, so this people movement happened within a relatively short period. McKinney details the various contexts in which religious change took place among the Bajju: in traditional Bajju culture, in their relations with the Hausa-Fulani, in the British colonial context, and in the missionary context. She presents the results of an in-depth interview schedule administered in 1984 and 2011 to respondents in both a rural village and a Kaduna suburb. This longitudinal study, together with the author's involvement in participant observation, personal language learning, and archival records research, help provide answers to the questions of why, and to what degree, a worldview paradigm shift has occurred among the Bajju. The author also discusses some traditional religious beliefs retained by Bajju Christians, and charts traditional religious beliefs with biblical texts. Bajju Christian Conversion in the Middle Belt of Nigeria will be essential to anthropologists specializing in conversion studies, and be of interest to missiologists, and to the Bajju people themselves. It is a companion volume to Baranzan's People: An Ethnohistory of the Bajju of the Middle Belt of Nigeria, published by SIL International(R) 2019.
Author: David Eltis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521840686
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 777
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The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1908
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Author: Nnamdi Elleh
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317179358
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 351
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In 1975, the Nigerian authorities decided to construct a new postcolonial capital called Abuja, and together with several internationally renowned architects these military leaders collaborated to build a city for three million inhabitants. Founded five years after the Civil War with Biafra, which caused around 1.7 million deaths, the city was envisaged as a place where justice would reign and where people from different social, religious, ethnic, and political backgrounds would come together in a peaceful manner and work together to develop their country and its economy. These were all laudable goals, but they ironically mobilized certain forces from around the country in opposition against the Federal Government of Nigeria. The international and modernist style architecture and the fact that the government spent tens of billions of dollars constructing this idealized capital ended up causing more strife and conflict. For groups like Boko Haram, a Nigerian Al-Qaida affiliate organization, and other smaller ethnic groups seeking to have a say in how the country’s oil wealth is spent, Abuja symbolized everything in Nigeria they sought to change. By examining the creation of the modernist national public spaces of Abuja within a broader historical and global context, this book looks at how the successes and the failures of these spaces have affected the citizens of the country and have, in fact, radicalized individuals with these spaces being scene of some of the most important political events and terrorist targets, including bombings and protest rallies. Although focusing on Nigeria’s capital, the study has a wider global implication in that it draws attention to how postcolonial countries that were formed at the turn of the twentieth century are continuously fragmenting and remade by the emergence of new nation states like South Sudan.
Author: Daniel M.N. McDikkoh PhD
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300156198
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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The idea of putting something in hiam Ham (Jaba language) first occurred to me some decades back, actually in the early 1980's. This was shortly following the completion of my masters' degree in the nursing program at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, in 1980. I did not immediately respond to the urge, or challenge, as you might prefer to call it at that time for a variety of reasons, including the very fact that I had also embarked on a PhD program. I later on transferred to the PhD program at Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1983.
