Ogbo

Ogbo
Author: Ifeoma Onyefulu
Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1996
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Ogbo are a special part of village life in Nigeria, uniting children of the same age in a lifelong fellowship--a group with whom they celebrate festivals, share day-to-day chores, and face the challenges of growing up.

Osun across the Waters

Osun across the Waters
Author: Joseph M. Murphy
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2001-10-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780253108630

Ã’sun is a brilliant deity whose imagery and worldwide devotion demand broad and deep scholarly reflection. Contributors to the ground-breaking Africa's Ogun, edited by Sandra Barnes (Indiana University Press, 1997), explored the complex nature of Ogun, the orisa who transforms life through iron and technology. Ã’sun across the Waters continues this exploration of Yoruba religion by documenting Ã’sun religion. Ã’sun presents a dynamic example of the resilience and renewed importance of traditional Yoruba images in negotiating spiritual experience, social identity, and political power in contemporary Africa and the African diaspora. The 17 contributors to Ã’sun across the Waters delineate the special dimensions of Ã’sun religion as it appears through multiple disciplines in multiple cultural contexts. Tracing the extent of Ã’sun traditions takes us across the waters and back again. Ã’sun traditions continue to grow and change as they flow and return from their sources in Africa and the Americas.

Political Economy of Resource, Human Security and Environmental Conflicts in Africa

Political Economy of Resource, Human Security and Environmental Conflicts in Africa
Author: Kelechi Johnmary Ani
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2021-08-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9811620369

This book shows the push and pull effects between resources, human security and conflicts in Africa. It recognizes the need for resources in Africa to be processed into finished goods in order to influence global market and redefine the pattern of trade relations with powerful countries of Asia, America and Europe in shaping the destiny and future of African countries. The achievement of this laudable objective is plagued by the security challenges which are directly or indirectly linked to resource-related conflicts rocking most of the resource endowed countries in the continent, thereby threatening global peace and security. To deal with this menace in the continent, it requires global co-operation and support of foreign governments, international organizations, international non-government organizations, governments of host countries and its citizens. The book presents the cases and experiences of countries that are endowed with resource, as well as have experienced different forms of human insecurity and have witnessed environmental conflicts in its analysis, which make the discourse interesting and quite educating.

Denis Williams, a Life in Works

Denis Williams, a Life in Works
Author: Charlotte Williams
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2010
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9042027916

Evelyn A. Williams, a former teacher of art and design, is a practising painter with a recently established studio in Guyana, where she applies the principles of Mbari. Current research interests include Denis Williams's artworks and the vernacular architecture of the Village Movement. --Book Jacket.

The Block Theory of Finite Group Algebras:

The Block Theory of Finite Group Algebras:
Author: Markus Linckelmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2018-05-24
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1108589219

This is a comprehensive introduction to the modular representation theory of finite groups, with an emphasis on block theory. The two volumes take into account classical results and concepts as well as some of the modern developments in the area. Volume 1 introduces the broader context, starting with general properties of finite group algebras over commutative rings, moving on to some basics in character theory and the structure theory of algebras over complete discrete valuation rings. In Volume 2, blocks of finite group algebras over complete p-local rings take centre stage, and many key results which have not appeared in a book before are treated in detail. In order to illustrate the wide range of techniques in block theory, the book concludes with chapters classifying the source algebras of blocks with cyclic and Klein four defect groups, and relating these classifications to the open conjectures that drive block theory.

African Democratization and Military Coups

African Democratization and Military Coups
Author: Chuka Onwumechili
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1998-10-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0313388210

Onwumechili provides an exciting perspective on African military coups and reminds us that democracy is not synonymous solely with Western societies. He examines democracies in traditional Africa and shows how these socieites clearly defined and limited the roles of traditional African armies. From this background, Onwumechili makes readers appreciate that modern African armies are deviant institutions, with no roots in traditional Africa. Rather, he argues, one has to seek those roots in Africa's recent, colonial history. Dr. Onwumechili goes on to describe the reasons for coups and their tactics. Finally, he examines how military coups can be prevented. While previous solutions have largely failed, Onwumechili provides convincing solutions based on case studies.