Iboland

Iboland
Author: S. N. Nwabara
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1978
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

The Ride from Kingston to Montego Bay

The Ride from Kingston to Montego Bay
Author: Deborah Mboya
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2013-01-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1477280073

There is an African proverb that goes, There is a king in every man. The Ride From Kingston To Montego Bay is about a young man named Aghagbolu who is the great-great-great-grandson of Obi Okonya I, the first king of the village of Mbubu. He was an African prince when he lived in Iboland, the land of the living, a society that is filled with the magic of ancestral spirits, ceremonies, chiefs, clansmen, compounds, earth gods and goddesses, families, farming, feasts, festivals, kings, kinship, marketplaces, oral traditions, priests, priestesses, queens, towns, tribes, and villages. As the son of a king, growing up in a Royal Palace was a time when rumors of war with surrounding villages was a way of life. His father, Obi Mberekpe, inherited the African Company and a debt that was never paid to the Royal Jamaican Company when his father, Obi Ezeukwu, was the king of the village of Mbubu. To setttle the debt, the Royal Jamaican Company fought with the African Company in Iboland. Aghagbolu has lived in Jamaica ever since trade ships left the village of Mbubu with him on board at the end of the war. Today, he is a chaffeur in Jamaica and well-known throughout the Carribean for the oral tradition of his African village, telling folktales. Aghagbolu and his passenger, Lyndon Johnson, a very wealthy realtor, create an unforgettable friendship together on their way to the Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort in Montego Bay from the airport in Kingston.

The Cambridge History of Africa

The Cambridge History of Africa
Author: J. D. Fage
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 764
Release: 1975-09-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521204132

This volume looks at developments in Africa during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Religion, History, and Politics in Nigeria

Religion, History, and Politics in Nigeria
Author: Chima Jacob Korieh
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780761831402

Religion, History, and Politics in Nigeria is concerned with the problematic nature of religion and politics in Nigerian history. The book provides a lively and straightforward treatment of the relationship among religion, politics, and history in Nigeria, and how it affects public life today. By adopting various cultural, historical, political, and sociological perspectives, the text's contributors provide an excellent introduction to the volatile mix of religion and politics in Nigerian history, as well as a range of strategic choices open to religious adherents. The complexity of the relationship among religion, history, and politics is organized around four themes: indigenous values and the influence of Islam and Christianity, colonialism and religious transformation, the religious landscape of the post-colonial period, and the rise of evangelism and fundamentalism. The volume provides an insightful guide to contemporary history, contemporary religion, and contemporary politics, enabling the reader to reach informed and balanced judgments about the role in religion in Nigerian history and politics. This opens the door for serious examination and debate, and will be excellent for use by the general reader and in political science, history, and religion courses.

Nigeria

Nigeria
Author: James S. Coleman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2022-05-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520308182

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1958.

African Art and Leadership

African Art and Leadership
Author: Douglas Fraser
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 1972
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780299058241

A scholarly analysis of the close relationships among the structure, function, and history of the sub-Saharan African arts.