Life Among the Ibo Women of Nigeria

Life Among the Ibo Women of Nigeria
Author: Salome C. Nnoromele
Publisher: Lucent Books
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781560063445

Examines the traditional role of Ibo women as equal participants in the social, economic, religious, and political lives of their communities and how this role has been influenced and changed by centuries of colonization and the pressures of modern society.

The Legendary Uli Women of Nigeria

The Legendary Uli Women of Nigeria
Author: Ambassador (Dr.) Robin Renee Sanders
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1483679233

Dr. Robin Renee Sanders, having lived in Africa for several years, was always struck by the ancestral, socio-historical and educational aspects of certain African cultural practices, especially languages, artifacts, and sign and symbol systems from the Ovahimba in Namibia and Pygmies in Congo, to the Horom, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, and Fulani of Nigeria. Her experiences on the Continent made her appreciate each and every culture and "its information systems," which in the end she called "communication expressions." The book follows eight extraordinary Nigerian women in the December phase of their lives as they try to preserve the meanings of their endangered sign, symbol, and motif system called Uli (oo-lee). Uli is an acknowledgement of their Igbo history, culture and ancestors. Sanders agrees with others scholars who posit that non-text, non-oral forms of communication expressions such as Nigeria's Uli, and other sign and symbol systems throughout the world, particularly in Africa, are just as important or "viable" as the written word and their meanings should be respected and preserved. Endangered cultural practices, like Uli, are just as important to protect as endangered languages as a symbolic relationship exists between the two.

Life Among the Ibo Women of Nigeria

Life Among the Ibo Women of Nigeria
Author: Salome Nnoromele
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1998
Genre: Igbo (African people)
ISBN:

Examines the traditional role of Ibo women as equal participants in the social, economic, religious, and political lives of their communities and how this role has been influenced and changed by centuries of colonization and the pressures of modern society.

Among the Ibos of Nigeria

Among the Ibos of Nigeria
Author: G.T. Basden
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136248560

First published in 1966. This book offers a description of the primitive life, customs and animistic beliefs of the Ibo people of Nigeria by one who, for thirty-five years, enjoyed the privilege of their intimate confidence and friendship. It includes 70 Illustrations and a Sketch Map and a new Bibliographical Note by John Ralph Willis.

Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart
Author: Chinua Achebe
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1994-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0385474547

“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.

Among the Ibos of Nigeria

Among the Ibos of Nigeria
Author: G.T. Basden
Publisher: Ravenio Books
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2013-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

This classic study includes the following chapters: I. From Liverpool to Onitsha II. The Ibo Country III. The Ibo Country (continued) IV. The Ibo Village V. Child Life VI. Courtship and Marriage VII. Ibo Men—Young and Old VIII. Ibo Women and Their Ways IX. Polygamy and Slavery X. Death and Burial Rites and Ceremonies XI. Sports and Pastimes XII. The Ibo at Work XIII. The Yam—The Ibo Staff of Life XIV. Palms—For Use and Profit XV. Some Arts and Crafts XVI. Arts and Crafts for Women XVII. Music XVIII. Trade and Currency XIX. War and Weapons XX. Some Aspects of Religion XXI. Sacrifice and Sacrifices XXII. Secret Societies XXIII. In the Shadow of Death XXIV. Chiefs and Their Orders XXV. Some Points of Etiquette XXVI. Fables—Folklore-Proverbs XXVII. The Day of Better Things XXVIII. Christianity and Islam

Igbo Women and Economic Transformation in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900-1960

Igbo Women and Economic Transformation in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900-1960
Author: Gloria Chuku
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415972109

Extrait de amazon.com : "Among Africanists and feminists, the Igbo-speaking women of southeastern Nigeria are well known for their history of anti-colonial activism which was most demonstrated in the 1929 War against British Colonialism. Perplexed by the magnitude of the Women's War, the colonial government commissioned anthropologists/ethnographers to study the Igbo political system and the place of women in Igbo society. The primary motive was to have a better understanding of the Igbo in order to avoid a repeat of the Women's War. This study will analyze the complexity and flexibility of gender relations in Igbo society with emphasis on such major cultural zones as the Anioma, the Ngwa, the Onitsha, the Nsukka, and the Aro."

African Women and the Shame and Pain of Infertility

African Women and the Shame and Pain of Infertility
Author: Damasus C. Okoro
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2020-06-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1725265702

In African Women and the Shame and Pain of Infertility: An Ethico-Cultural Study of Christian Response to Childlessness among the Igbo People of West Africa, Okoro discusses the shipwreck that is associated with infertility in marriage in Africa. Within this space, childlessness places a big question mark on a woman’s femininity and the self-esteem of the man. The stigma of infertility most often leads to social isolation and humiliation, particularly of married women, even when the source of infertility may not have come from them. Unfortunately, this situation goes against the highly valued Igbo ethical principle of onye aghala nwanne ya, meaning “no kith or kin should be left behind.” Therefore, the purpose of the book is to help married people in Igbo land and Africa at large to appropriate this indigenous principle in their response to the problem of infertility. To attain this, the author critically evaluates discrimination and oppression of infertile couples, particularly women, and shedding light on the paradoxes found in Igbo cultural expressions. He employs a constructive, ethical, cultural, religious, contextual, and theological approach that explores important Igbo religious paradigms like Chi (an Igbo religio-cultural understanding of personal destiny) and Ani (the feminine deity in-charge of the land and fertility) to argue the case for the liberation and integration of infertile couples.

What Will My Mother Say

What Will My Mother Say
Author: Dympna Ugwu-Oju
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

As a Nigerian Ibo woman living in the United States & raising daughters, the author frequently finds herself in conflict between her native culture & her adoptive culture. Her attempts to resolve this conflict are the basis of a fascinating autobiography.