Download or read book My Homeland and a Vision Biafra written by Thomas Tochukwu Stanley and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many theories have been put forward about the origin of the Igbo people. Some claim that the Igbo migrated from the East and are either one of the lost tribes of Israel or Egypt. Another claim that they migrated from Western Africa. But available evidence such as Language diversity; Botanical (Forests Conservation); Population density; Archaeological, suggests that the Igbo and their forbears have lived in much their present homes from the dawn of human history. The traditional homeland of the lgbo people lies in the south-east and south south and some minor parts in North Central region of Nigeria. They are situated between the great river Niger and Cross Rivers State, with the Ibibio, Ijo, Igala, Idoma, Edo as their neighbors. The ancient scttlement at Igbo-Ukwu in eastern Nigeria was an outpost for West African's long-distance trade routes, one of which was the Trans-Saharan trade routes. The main items traded were gold, slaves, salt, cowries shells (the major unit of currency), weapons, expensive cloth, pepper, ivory, kola nuts, leather goods. The arrival of Europeans on the coast of West Africa undermined the Saharan trade, but did not finally finish it until well into the 19th century. This also made the Igboland to flourish, primarily trading slaves but after the abolition of slave trade in 1807, turned to trading in palm products, timber, elephant tusk and spices. The Igbos are a self-helping race who strongly believe in making themselves what they wish to be, hence the Igbo saying "Onye kwe Chi ya ekwe". They are a people rich in culture and tradition. Although generally having very similar cultures, they also show a local variation in cultures and customs. Based on these variations the Igbo land as a nation can be divided into five main subgroups: The Northern Igbo: - Igbo-Ukwu, Onitsha, Enugu, Nri-Awka The Western Igbo: - Ogwashi-Ukwu, Asaba, Agbor, The Southern Igbo: - Umuahia, Ngwa, Owerrinta, The Eastern Igbo: - Afikpo, Arochukwu-Ohiafia, Bende The North-Eastern Igbo: - Ogu-Ukwu, Abakaliki After several military conquest, Igbo land now became under British colonial rule. This was a style of govermnent not very popular amongst the Igbos, hence the British were faced with a lot of protest and resistance, but Igbo land still became a British Colony. In 1900 the area that was once administered by the British Niger Company now became the Protectorate of Southern Nigeria. Control of this area then got passed from the British Foreign Office to the Colonial Office. By 1900 - 1914 the Northern and Southern Nigeria were amalgamated. Then afterward the Eastern Region was formed and subsequently was divided into several other states Igbos can be found in these states: Abia, Anambra, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo, Akwaibom, Rivers, Edo, Benue and, kogi state Igbo pre colonial religion: In Pre Colonial Era, Igbo people believed in Odinani. It`s the common name for the traditional Igbo religious practices. The main characteristic of this religion is a monotheistic attribute. We believed in one God, but we also had a lot of spirits (Alusi or Arusi) Igbo`s traditional beliefs in some contextual meaning can resemble Christian cosmology. They believed in one God called Chineke. He was a creator of everything on the Earth. At the same time, the world was divided into Human and Spirit world. When people died, they traveled to the spirit world. Each person has a guardian spirit which was called Chi. Chineke or Chukwu assigned these spirits to every person. The closest concept to Chi spirit is the guardian angel in Christianity. This spirit also follows the person into the world of spirits. Igbo people believed that they could speak with ancestors who lived in the spirit world. IGBO LANDING In May 1803 a shipload of captive West Africans, upon surviving the Middle Passage, were landed by U.S. Buy to know more........
Download or read book There Was a Country written by Chinua Achebe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart—a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Decades in the making, There Was a Country is a towering account of one of modern Africa’s most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe’s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age.
Download or read book Putting Our Differences to Work written by Debbe Kennedy and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows readers how to turn various kinds of differences into competitive advantages, from differences in race, gender, age, national origin and sexual orientation to differences in experience, position, goals, competencies, working habits and management style.
Download or read book Destination Biafra written by Buchi Emecheta and published by Not Applicable. This book was released on 1982-06-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debbie Ogedemgbe joins the army to help her country, but is uncertain whether her English lover, Alan Grey, a military advisor, is concerned with Nigeria or British interests in Africa
Download or read book Emergent Masculinities written by Ndubueze L. Mbah and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Emergent Masculinities, Ndubueze L. Mbah argues that the Bight of Biafra region’s Atlanticization—or the interaction between regional processes and Atlantic forces such as the slave trade, colonialism, and Christianization—between 1750 and 1920 transformed gender into the primary mode of social differentiation in the region. He incorporates over 250 oral narratives of men and women across a range of social roles and professions with material culture practices, performance traditions, slave ship data, colonial records, and more to reveal how Africans channeled the socioeconomic forces of the Atlantic world through their local ideologies and practices. The gendered struggles over the means of social reproduction conditioned the Bight of Biafra region’s participation in Atlantic systems of production and exchange, and defined the demography of the region’s forced diaspora. By looking at male and female constructions of masculinity and sexuality as major indexes of social change, Emergent Masculinities transforms our understanding of the role of gender in precolonial Africa and fills a major gap in our knowledge of a broader set of theoretical and comparative issues linked to the slave trade and the African diaspora.
Download or read book War Child written by Emmanuel Jal and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary memoir tells the true story of a former child soldier, who survived and escaped a violent life to become Africa's number-one hip-hop artist and an international ambassador for children in war-torn countries.
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Download or read book New York My Village A Novel written by Uwem Akpan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exuberant storytelling full of wry comedy, dark history, and devastating satire—by the celebrated and original author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Say You’re One of Them. From a suspiciously cheap Hell’s Kitchen walk-up, Nigerian editor and winner of a Toni Morrison Publishing Fellowship Ekong Udousoro is about to begin the opportunity of a lifetime: to learn the ins and outs of the publishing industry from its incandescent epicenter. While his sophisticated colleagues meet him with kindness and hospitality, he is soon exposed to a colder, ruthlessly commercial underbelly—callous agents, greedy landlords, boorish and hostile neighbors, and, beneath a superficial cosmopolitanism, a bedrock of white cultural superiority and racist assumptions about Africa, its peoples, and worst of all, its food. Reckoning, at the same time, with the recent history of the devastating and brutal Biafran War, in which Ekong’s people were a minority of a minority caught up in the mutual slaughter of majority tribes, Ekong’s life in New York becomes a saga of unanticipated strife. The great apartment deal wrangled by his editor turns out to be an illegal sublet crawling with bedbugs. The lights of Times Square slide off the hardened veneer of New Yorkers plowing past the tourists. A collective antagonism toward the “other” consumes Ekong’s daily life. Yet in overcoming misunderstandings with his neighbors, Chinese and Latino and African American, and in bonding with his true allies at work and advocating for healing back home, Ekong proves that there is still hope in sharing our stories. Akpan’s prose melds humor, tenderness, and pain to explore the myriad ways that tribalisms define life everywhere, from the villages of Nigeria to the villages within New York City. New York, My Village is a triumph of storytelling and a testament to the life-sustaining power of community across borders and across boroughs.
Download or read book African Migrations written by Abdoulaye Kane and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Engaging case studies . . . add to understanding the social processes of voluntary and forced displacement within the continent and across the seas.” —Choice Spurred by major changes in the world economy and in local ecology, the contemporary migration of Africans, both within the continent and to various destinations in Europe and North America, has seriously affected thousands of lives and livelihoods. The contributors to this volume, reflecting a variety of disciplinary perspectives, examine the causes and consequences of this new migration. The essays cover topics such as rural-urban migration into African cities, transnational migration, and the experience of immigrants abroad, as well as the issues surrounding migrant identity and how Africans re-create community and strive to maintain ethnic, gender, national, and religious ties to their former homes.
Download or read book Humanitarian Photography written by Heide Fehrenbach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the historical evolution of 'humanitarian photography' - the mobilization of photography in the service of humanitarian initiatives across state boundaries.
Download or read book Afropolitan Horizons written by Ulf Hannerz and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction. Nigerian Connections -- Palm Wine, Amos Tutuola, and a Literary Gatekeeper -- Bahia-Lagos-Ouidah: Mariana's Story -- Igbo Life, Past and Present: Three Views -- Inland, Upriver with the Empire: Borrioboola-Gha -- The City, according to Ekwensi . . . and Onuzo -- Points of Cultural Geography: Ibadan . . . Enugu, Onitsha, Nsukka -- Been-To: Dreams, Disappointments, Departures, and Returns -- Dateline Lagos: Reporting on Nigeria to the World -- Death in Lagos -- Tai Solarin: On Colonial Power, Schools, Work Ethic, Religion, and the Press -- Wole Soyinka, Leo Frobenius, and the Ori Olokun -- A Voice from the Purdah: Baba of Karo -- Bauchi: The Academic and the Imam -- Railtown Writers -- Nigeria at War -- America Observed: With Nigerian Eyes -- Transatlantic Shuttle -- Sojourners from Black Britain -- Oyotunji Village, South Carolina: Reverse Afropolitanism.
Download or read book The Politics of Memory written by Ifi Amadiume and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Binaifer Nowrojee and Regan Ralph.
Download or read book The Open Sore of a Continent written by Wole Soyinka and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events that led up to dissident writer Ken Saro-Wiwa's execution in 1995 marked Nigeria's decline from a post-colonial success story to its current military dictatorship. Wole Soyinka, whose own Nigerian passport was confiscated by the Nigerian military in 1994, explores the history and future of Nigeria in a compelling jeremiad that is as intense as it is provocative, learned, and wide-ranging.
Download or read book Escape from Zombie Island written by S. P. Moran and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Firpo s last work assignment takes him to Haiti, the land of voodoo, a zombie island of sorts. The trip turns deadly and Firpo manages to escape, only to be thrust into another life and death situation, one with eternal implications. One involving escape from the true Zombie Island. Firpo s last bitter sweet days are his own dark night of the soul, where he discovers, as Einstein, that God does not play dice with the universe. Indeed, nothing is unrelated. More importantly, Firpo learns the one word answer to life s final question...
Download or read book Floating in a Most Peculiar Way written by Louis Chude-Sokei and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2021 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gutting, gorgeous memoir of a pan-African childhood that tracks the author's migrations from the short-lived African nation known as Biafra, to Jamaica, to Los Angeles' harshest streets
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Download or read book Challenging the State in Africa written by Godwin Onuoha and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2011 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the 'Igbo Question' and emergent forms of Igbo 'self-determination' in contemporary Nigeria. It does this within the context of contested citizenship, ethnic identity politics and the unresolved crisis of state ownership and legitimacy, which all feeds into the 'National Question' in the Nigerian public space. The thesis proceeds from a theoretical standpoint that places the 'Igbo Question' within the framework of the 'tri-polar' power struggle and competition among the three major ethnic groups in Nigeria. Based on a prior idea of statehood which is rooted in the aborted secessionist attempts of the Igbo ethnic group from the Nigerian state between 1967 and 1970, and drawing on the case of an Igbo ethno-nationalist separatist movement in Nigeria, known as the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), this thesis focuses on the use of 'territory' and 'space' as components of the 'repertoires of contention' in the quest for political change, sovereignty and self-determination. This provides the context in which 'claims' and 'counter-claims' of security, territoriality and sovereignty are enacted. While the thesis draws substantially on various forms of group and sub-national rights which have been identified and studied in international law, political philosophy and social science literature generally, it transcends these debates, but focuses more on the actual processes of appropriating, interpreting and applying these rights and laws against the state in specific contexts. The analysis of the 'Igbo Question' draws on issues and perspectives surrounding the salience, construction, mobilization and politicization of ethnic identity, and the dynamics of its deployment and use in national politics, coupled with the diverse struggles, contentions and conflicts inherent in it. The research provides an innovative and empirically grounded insight into the processes of 'juridification' of self-determination rights for groups within the nationstate in Africa; the dynamics, constraints and possibilities inherent in the mobilization of these rights and laws; the emancipatory potentials or transformative ends of these rights and laws; and the role of violence in nation-building processes in Africa.
