Download or read book The Resilience of Igbo Culture written by Azuka A. Dike and published by Fourth Dimension Publishing Company. This book was released on 1985 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major thrust of this book is the ethnography of the Awka-Igbo in particular the Northern Igbos. In delineating and analysing the socio-cultural structures, the author attempts to demonstrate their continuity from pre-colonial times to the present, thus showing the resilience of Awka-Igbo culture despite the seventy year British occupation. The core of the work is the ethnography of Awka town, which the author uses to distinguish between local northern customs and those which are pan-Igbo.
Download or read book A Clash of Cultures written by Emmanuela C. Nwokeke C. P. and published by Stillwater River Publications. This book was released on 2023-04-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on her personal experience as a Nigerian, Emmanuela C. Nwokeke C.P. provides a fresh analysis of the socio-political and cultural conditions of the Igbo people via Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. She examines themes of identity, tradition, and resilience, as well as the ways in which the Igbo people both challenge and are challenged by the changing world. Readers are taken on a journey through the struggles of the Igbo people." -Professor Davide Del Bello (University of Bergamo, Italy) "The book in your hands represents a detailed and creative work on the face-off between British colonialism and pre-colonial Igbo society. Drawing from Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, the author brilliantly articulates a thriving Igbo culture prior to the British invasion. She challenges the Igbo-pessimistic stereotypes that cast pre-colonial Igbo society as a primitive jungle devoid of civilization. A Clash of Cultures is an excellent companion to Achebe's Things Fall Apart and provides an interpretative lens for appreciating its depth." -Lazarus Ejike Onuh, S.T.L. "A fascinating interpretation of Chinua Achebe and an insight to Things Fall Apart from a postcolonial point of view. A must-read for people from all walks of life." -Sr. Juliet Emereonye, C.P. "There is no doubt that Things Fall Apart is one of the most significant Nigerian novels as the novel portrays in clear terms the conflict between Western culture and Igbo culture during the era of colonization. A Clash of Cultures gives a contemporary analysis of the impact of the conflict and exrays it in vivid terms. This book will give a reader a clear understanding of the current situation. It helps one to know where we are today and how we got there. I highly recommend this book to all." -Fr. Jude Alih, M.S.P. Emmanuela C. Nwokeke, C.P. hails from Imo State, Nigeria. She is a Passionist Sister of St. Paul of the Cross. She holds a BA in Foreign Languages and Literature and an MA in Pan-American Languages and Literature from the University of Bergamo, Italy.
Download or read book The Resilience of Belief in Supernatural Beings in Igbo Traditional Religion and Its Impact on Evangelisation written by Ethelbert Uwadoka and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.
Download or read book The Dynamics of Cultural Revitalisation written by Nnamdi Anacletus Odoemene and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Igbo and the Tradition of Politics written by U. D. Anyanwu and published by Fourth Dimension Publishing Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Culture Precepts and Social Change in Southeastern Nigeria written by Apollos O. Nwauwa and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Resilience in Culture written by Oliver V. Madu and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Justice in Igbo Culture written by Nkeonye Otakpor and published by Malthouse Press. This book was released on 2008-12-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has existed the naÔve assumption that until the unsolicited advent of colonialism, the so-called "noble and savage" tribes had no legal system worthy of attention. The Igbo people were not exempted from this assumption. Justice itself cannot be realized outside a system of law and its institutions. It is a system in which law is a vital aspect of man's culture and social existence; embodying the collective will of the community and binding the members of that community in a unity of purpose. In all of these, the exercise of reason is essential and indispensable. In the face of the colonial and neo-colonial assumption of the non-existence of law, the evidence on the ground suggests something totally different. If anything, that evidence shows that the assumption was an essential part of the ideology of colonialism and an important psychological armour which, in conjunction with the Bible and gun-powder, helped to bring about the physical, political, economic, and mental domination of non-Europeans. In this book, an attempt is made to elucidate the logical features of some fundamental concepts and phrases related to justice, dispute settlement, and the organization of life and work in Igbo communities in Aniocha north local government area of Delta State.
Download or read book Igbo Israel written by Odi Moghalu and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legend of The Lost Tribes of Israel remained for scholars, historians, archeologists, anthropologists and Hebraists a fascinating topic for millennia. When Israel faced an imperial conquest in the hands of the Assyrian empire in 722 B.C. as earlier warned by prophets Isaiah and Hosea, the nation also went on exile and into what seemed oblivion. A people who for penalty of apostasy became a dispersed people across the globe for nearly three thousand years creating a puzzle of identity and location for so long has suddenly began to emerge from the shadows of time. The account of their journey and experiences over this period had largely remained conjectures as they assimilated amongst foreign cultures. The Igbo, sojourned in the two sides of lower Niger, one of Africas great rivers second only to the Nile and like other exiled tribes of Israel was relatively unknown to those who never had any contacts with them. The era of trans-Atlantic forced migrations and European colonization opened this connection. The exposition of a peoples beliefs, behavior, attitudes and values within religious, cultural and political context had only affirmed their origin and identity.
Download or read book Efuru written by Flora Nwapa and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appearing in 1966, Efuru was the first internationally published book, in English, by a Nigerian woman. Flora Nwapa (1931–1993) sets her story in a small village in colonial West Africa as she describes the youth, marriage, motherhood, and eventual personal epiphany of a young woman in rural Nigeria. The respected and beautiful protagonist, an independent-minded Ibo woman named Efuru, wishes to be a mother. Her eventual tragedy is that she is not able to marry or raise children successfully. Alone and childless, Efuru realizes she surely must have a higher calling and goes to the lake goddess of her tribe, Uhamiri, to discover the path she must follow. The work, a rich exploration of Nigerian village life and values, offers a realistic picture of gender issues in a patriarchal society as well as the struggles of a nation exploited by colonialism.
Download or read book New Dawn for African Women written by Michael Muonwe and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need for renegotiation of the place and role of women in the family, the Church, and the society cannot be any more urgent than now, especially as people are more aware of the devastating effects of the evils of inequality, discrimination, and oppression. It is a pity that the excellent qualities of bravery, industry, resilience, and perseverance historically attributed to African women, with which they negotiated for better place in the family, the Church, and the society, have been manipulated to serve as instruments for their denigration. The problem is that the patriarchal articulations of gender relations from the western world that entered Africa through colonialism, Christianity, western education and globalization allied themselves with the macho elements in African culture, and institutionalized the oppression of women; a move that women have always resisted both overtly and covertly. But how long could they hang on? This book provides exceptional and critical assessment of these issues, especially from the perspective of the Igbo society of Nigeria. Apart from assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the efforts made by women themselves to surmount these challenges, it also explores how the autochthonous values of the traditional culture could integrate with Christian values to enthrone gender equality in the society. "Fr Muonwe demonstrated in this present publication his pastoral zeal for justice especially on the predicaments of women in African nay Igbo society. He regrets as it were that the African (Igbo) traditional society is still far from realizing the Christian gospel ideal of dignity and equality of human person because of the obvious environment that is strictly androcentric and carefully crafted in patriarchal hegemony... I thank Fr Muonwe for... this timely publication especially for many Igbo Christian communities today experiencing crisis in several aspects of our culture... I hope the Bishops, the Priests, the Religious and Laity will find in this present work a rare and indispensable treasure for solutions to our pastoral predicaments." Rev. Fr. Prof. Anthony B. C. Chiegboka. "New Dawn for African Women is encyclopaedic in content and daunting in its wealth of documentation... [It] is a well-written book. The contents covered much more than Igbo women, or gender issues. It addressed such other issues as Igbo cosmology, Igbo concept of life and death, the history of Christianity in Igboland and Igbo social anthropology, among others. It is a book, which every Nigerian, especially the Igbo, should read. The book is inspirational and provocative in the extreme; it is original and displays 'learning lightly carried.' One cannot but return to it over and over again after the first reading. I very strongly recommend it to the Nigerian and African reading public." C. Ego Uzoezie (Ph.D.)
Download or read book Igbo Culture written by Reuben Eneze and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presented his book "Igbo Culture" in a most convincing way by quoting expert opinions on most of the issues he discussed in the book. Through his carefully researched work and detailed analysis of facts, he showed in the book that Igbo youths working hard like their ancestors can reform Igboland into a new and better civilization by sifting the good aspects of Igbo culture into today's way of life. He started his book by making a brief reference to the possible migration route of Igbo ancestors from their earliest settlements in the forest region of Central Africa to their present-day settlement in Southeastern Nigeria of West Africa. He also made a brief reference to the development of the Igbo civilization through the period covering the Stone Age and Iron Age civilizations (pages 1-14). He painted a clear picture of the cultural background of the community where he was born and brought up and lived in for more than sixty years before he traveled to the United States of America. He traced the more than twenty-six generations-deep lineages, beliefs, concepts, customs, and history of Ihe Shikeaguma in Ntuegbe clan of Enugu State in Southeastern Nigeria as a sample core Igbo culture community. He also delved into the historical links and social formation of this community, with emphasis on genealogy, religion, settlement, language, government, law enforcement, defense, seasons, festivals, and residential structures (pages 15-83). He took his readers to Igbo thought on God, self, family, human life, birth, death, spirit, human mind, and reincarnation (pages 85-113). He clearly documented the cultural products of Igbo thought, which can be seen in the formulation of Igbo institutions with special reference to marriage, the extended family system, the social status structure and title system, festivals, informal education, traditional law, community service, religion, divination, and health-care services (pages 114-202). He explained that the symbolism of various articles and some spoken words in Igbo culture are products of Igbo thought. He referred to ofo stick, kola nut, alligator pepper, spears, tribal face marks, body paint, white chalk, and the young palm frond as symbols or instruments of Igbo philosophical expressions and concepts (pages 203-214). He showed how Igbo culture and philosophy have been affected by the cultures of Igbo neighbors in Nigeria and by other foreign cultures with special references to the following: (a)Ugwuele civilization (a Stone Age culture)-1,000,000 BC-500,000 BC (b)Nri civilization (a ritualized kingship system)-AD 800-AD 1700 (c)Aro civilization (slave trade and colonial era)-AD 1700-AD 1850 (d)Border civilization (slave trade and colonial era)-AD 800-AD1900 (e)External civilization (slave trade and colonial era)-AD 1700-AD 2000 (pages 215-238) The author concluded his work by making an evaluation of Igbo culture. He carefully examined the oriented values of the Igbo and highlighted those areas of Igbo culture that should be refurbished and reinfused into Igbo life by the Igbo themselves in order to transform Igboland into a big theater of modern civilization (pages 239-246).
Download or read book Social Practices Among the IGBO written by Funmi O. Bammeke and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The article discusses social practices among the Igbo of South-Eastern Nigeria. It identifies practices that have defied social change and have survived over the years as well as those that have been modified or completely changed. The paper observes the resilience of the Igbo people and their strong kinship ties which they still treasure in spite of the fact that they are well traveled. It observes that in spite of the Igbo people's contact with foreign values and ideas, they still preserve very strong links with their communities; a fact which makes tradition and modernization co-exist in the dynamic Igbo society.
Download or read book Language Endangerment in Nigeria The Case of Yoruba written by and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, University of Würzburg (Anglistik), course: Language Contact, language: English, abstract: Language diversity is a cultural heritage of the world. Even though approximately 6,000 languages still exist, many minority languages are threatened with extinction in almost every part of the world. The study focuses on language endangerment in Nigeria presented by the example of Yoruba. The aim of this paper is to present the topic of language endangerment in general concerning the historical background, the classification, the value of languages, and the causes as well as the supports for language endangerment. It is discussed whether Yoruba counts into the category of endangered languages or not.
Download or read book Igbo Culture Second Edition written by Reuben K. Eneze and published by Reuben K. Eneze. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "Second Edition" of the Igbo Culture, the author has granted a significant upgrade, done with love and appreciation for the blessing of being a son of the Igbo Nation. He has greatly upgraded the book, after years of new and careful research work, and collection of readers' opinions on some of the issues in the book. Additional information on some of the issues discussed has been included to assist the reader understand the message of the author and to better accommodate the readers' views. The book has its grammar and punctuation reedited with dates and periods of events updated. Most of the Igbo vernacular words are in bold print, so that non-Igbo readers can distinguish between English and vernacular words.In the first edition, the author presented his book "Igbo Culture" in a most convincing way by quoting expert opinions on most of the issues he discussed in the book. Through his carefully researched work and detailed analysis of facts, he showed in the book that Igbo youths working hard like their ancestors can reform Igboland into a new and better civilization by sifting the good aspects of Igbo culture into today's way of life. He started his book by making a brief reference to the possible migration route of Igbo ancestors from their earliest settlements in the forest region of Central Africa to their present-day settlement in Southeastern Nigeria of West Africa. He also made a brief reference to the development of the Igbo civilization through the period covering the Stone Age and Iron Age civilizations. He painted a clear picture of the cultural background of the community where he was born and brought up and lived in for more than sixty years before he traveled to the United States of America. He traced the more than twenty-six generations-deep lineages, beliefs, concepts, customs, and history of Ihe Shikeaguma in Ntuegbe clan of Enugu State in Southeastern Nigeria as a sample core Igbo culture community. He also delved into the historical links and social formation of this community, with emphasis on genealogy, religion, settlement, language, government, law enforcement, defense, seasons, festivals, and residential structures. He took his readers to Igbo thought on God, self, family, human life, birth, death, spirit, human mind, and reincarnation. He clearly documented the cultural products of Igbo thought, which can be seen in the formulation of Igbo institutions with special reference to marriage, the extended family system, the social status structure and title system, festivals, informal education, traditional law, community service, religion, divination, and health-care services. He explained that the symbolism of various articles and some spoken words in Igbo culture are products of Igbo thought. He referred to ofo stick, kola nut, alligator pepper, spears, tribal face marks, body paint, white chalk, and the young palm frond as symbols or instruments of Igbo philosophical expressions and concepts. He showed how Igbo culture and philosophy have been affected by the cultures of Igbo neighbors in Nigeria and by other foreign cultures with special references to the following: (a) Ugwuele civilization (a Stone Age culture)-1,000,000 BC-500,000 BC (b) Nri civilization (a ritualized kingship system)-AD 800-AD 1700 (c) Aro civilization (slave trade and colonial era)-AD 1700-AD 1850 (d) Border civilization (slave trade and colonial era)-AD 800-AD1900 (e) External civilization (slave trade and colonial era)-AD 1700-AD 2000. The author concluded his work by making an evaluation of Igbo culture. He carefully examined the oriented values of the Igbo and highlighted those areas of Igbo culture that should be refurbished and re-infused into Igbo life by the Igbo themselves in order to transform Igboland into a big theater of modern civilization.
Download or read book Nri written by Otigbuanyinya O. C. Onyesoh and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
