History and Culture of the Upper Cross River
Author | : S. O. Jaja |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Cross River Basin (Cameroon and Nigeria) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : S. O. Jaja |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Cross River Basin (Cameroon and Nigeria) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Axel Harneit-Sievers |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2021-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004492232 |
Local histories, written and published by non-academic historians, constitute a rapidly expanding genre in contemporary non-Western societies. However, academic historians and anthropologists usually take little notice of them. This volume takes a comparative look at local historical writing. Thirteen case studies, set in seven different countries of sub-Saharan Africa, India and Nepal, examine the authors, their books and their audiences. From different perspectives, they analyse the genre's intellectual roots, its relationship to oral historical narratives, and its relevance and impact in local and wider arenas. Local histories, it turns out, pursue a variety of agendas. They (re)construct local and communal identities affected by rapid social change. Often, they (re)write history as part of cultural and political struggles. Openly or implicitly, all of them place local communities on the map of the world at large.
Author | : Toyin Falola |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2023-08-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1666944491 |
This edited volume provides an interdisciplinary and balanced discussion on the changing dynamics of identities in Africa, with a focus on gender, ethno-cultural, and religious identity.
Author | : Ivor L. Miller |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2010-01-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1604738146 |
In Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba, Ivor L. Miller shows how African migrants and their political fraternities played a formative role in the history of Cuba. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, no large kingdoms controlled Nigeria and Cameroon's multilingual Cross River basin. Instead, each settlement had its own lodge of the initiation society called Ékpè, or “leopard,” which was the highest indigenous authority. Ékpè lodges ruled local communities while also managing regional and long-distance trade. Cross River Africans, enslaved and forcibly brought to colonial Cuba, reorganized their Ékpè clubs covertly in Havana and Matanzas into a mutual-aid society called Abakuá, which became foundational to Cuba's urban life and music. Miller's extensive fieldwork in Cuba and West Africa documents ritual languages and practices that survived the Middle Passage and evolved into a unifying charter for transplanted slaves and their successors. To gain deeper understanding of the material, Miller underwent Ékpè initiation rites in Nigeria after ten years' collaboration with Abakuá initiates in Cuba and the United States. He argues that Cuban music, art, and even politics rely on complexities of these African-inspired codes of conduct and leadership. Voice of the Leopard is an unprecedented tracing of an African title-society to its Caribbean incarnation, which has deeply influenced Cuba's creative energy and popular consciousness.
Author | : Simon Ottenberg |
Publisher | : Dorrance Publishing |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2022-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1638672644 |
Double Descent and Gender Issues in the Cross River Region of Southeastern Nigeria By: Simon Ottenberg Double Descent and Gender Issues in the Cross River Region of Southeastern Nigeria is a comprehensive study of an unusual form of human descent among a number of societies in Nigeria’s Cross River Region. The author provides an in-depth history and analysis of the variations of regional groups and raises the thought-provoking question of how matrilineal and patrilineal relationships affect a society’s gender relations.
Author | : Moses Effiong Ekpenyong |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 714 |
Release | : 2022-11-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9811929327 |
This book is a convergence of heterogeneous insights (from languages and literature, history, music, media and communications, computer science and information studies) which previously went their separate ways; now unified under a single framework for the purpose of preserving a unique heritage, the language. In a growing society like ours, description and documentation of human and scientific evidence/resources are improving. However, these resources have enjoyed cost-effective solutions for Western languages but are yet to flourish for African tone languages. By situating discussions around a universe of discourse, sufficient to engender cross-border interactions within the African context, this book shall break a dichotomy of challenges on adaptive processes required to unify resources to assist the development of modern solutions for the African domain.
Author | : Ruby Bell-Gam |
Publisher | : Oxford, England : Clio Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781851093274 |
Annotation. Offers annotated references to some 800 recent publications on this African country, in sections on economy, ethnic groups, mass media, religion, banking, and science and technology. Includes a chronology, and an introductory essay providing background on Nigeria's history and contemporary issues. This revised bibliography updates the first edition, which was published in 1989. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author | : Otu Abam Ubi |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2019-05-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0359550444 |
This work is a reconstruction of the Pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial history of the Yakurr of South Eastern Nigeria. It is primarily, based on Yakurr Oral Sources. The Study provides a historical foundation hence its title. It is hoped that future historians shall build upon that foundation. However, the work examines the collapse of the Wukari Empire (Jukun/Kororofa) and the development of the Atlantic Slave trade as the principal causal factors of the migrations of the various peoples who now occupy the middle and upper Cross River Regions. Such people include the Yalla, Ukelle (upper Cross River), Boki, Agbo, Bahumono, Mbembe and Yakurr (middle Cross River) region.
Author | : Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 872 |
Release | : 2009-12-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788195423 |
The Izon of the Niger Delta is a global history of the Izon, Ijo, or Ijaw people from their homelands in the Niger Delta, through Nigeria, the West and Central African coastlands, and in the Africa diaspora into Europe, the America's and the Caribbean. It is a preliminary study which raises questions and opens ground for further research. The book provides chapters that take an overview of issues on the environment of the Niger Delta, an analysis of the Ijo population, the language, culture, resources, history and linkage to the rest of Nigeria and the world. In effect these chapters provide a synopsis of the Ijo in the past and their situation in the present.