Women In Nigeria
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| Author | : Cheryl Johnson-Odim |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780252066139 |
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was a Nigerian feminist who fought for suffrage and equal rights for her countrywomen long before the second wave of the women's movement in the United States. She also joined the struggle for Nigerian independence as an activist in the anticolonial movement.For Women and the Nation is the story of this courageous woman, one of a handful of full-length biographies of African women activists. It will be welcomed by students of women's studies, African history, and biography, as well as by opponents of the Nigerian military regime that has held one of her sons, Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti, in solitary confinement since August 1995.CHERYL JOHNSON-ODIM, chair and associate professor of history at Loyola University in Chicago, is coeditor of Expanding the Boundaries of Women's History. NINA EMMA MBA, senior lecturer in history at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, is the author of Nigerian Women Mobilized and Ayo Rosijc.
| Author | : Cynthia Tasha Osajibenedict |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2021-05-07 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
Dear Naija Girl, is a blend of stories, and experiences, highlighting the ordeals of women and what it means to be female in Nigeria. It opens up its readers to what women go through in this part of the world to be successful and also be heard or given a voice in their individual spheres. Asides from sharing true life stories of several women, it also highlights the struggles of women in Nigeria go through even when they appear successful, how they have to constantly defend their success in the judging and preying eyes of the society they come from. Amidst all, it offers a way forward.Enjoy the read.
| 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.
| Author | : Gloria Chuku |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 351 |
| Release | : 2020-10-07 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1793617856 |
This first comprehensive study of the Nigeria-Biafra War (1967-1970) through the lens of gender explores the valiant and gallant ways women carried out old and new responsibilities in wartime and immediate postwar Nigeria. The book presents women as embodiments of vulnerability and agency, who demonstrated remarkable resilience and initiative, waging war on all fronts in the face of precarious conditions and scarcities, and maximizing opportunities occasioned by the hostilities. Women’s experiences are highlighted through critical analyses of oral interviews, memoirs, life histories, fashion and material culture, international legal conventions, music, as well as governmental and non-governmental sources. The book fills the gap in the war scholarship that has minimized women’s complex experiences fifty years after the hostilities ended. It highlights the cost of the conflict on Nigerian women, their participation in the hostilities, and their contributions to the survival of families, communities and the country. The chapters present counter-narratives to fictional and nonfictional accounts of the war, especially those written by men, which often peripheralize or stereotypically represent women as passive spectators or helpless victims of the conflict; and also highlight and exaggerate women’s moral laxity and sensationalize their marital infidelities.
| Author | : Abi Daré |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 401 |
| Release | : 2021-02-23 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1524746096 |
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK! “Brave, fresh . . . unforgettable.”—The New York Times Book Review “A celebration of girls who dare to dream.”—Imbolo Mbue, author of Behold the Dreamers (Oprah’s Book Club pick) Shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and recommended by The New York Times, Marie Claire, Vogue, Essence, PopSugar, Daily Mail, Electric Literature, Red, Stylist, Daily Kos, Library Journal, The Everygirl, and Read It Forward! The unforgettable, inspiring story of a teenage girl growing up in a rural Nigerian village who longs to get an education so that she can find her “louding voice” and speak up for herself, The Girl with the Louding Voice is a simultaneously heartbreaking and triumphant tale about the power of fighting for your dreams. Despite the seemingly insurmountable obstacles in her path, Adunni never loses sight of her goal of escaping the life of poverty she was born into so that she can build the future she chooses for herself – and help other girls like her do the same. Her spirited determination to find joy and hope in even the most difficult circumstances imaginable will “break your heart and then put it back together again” (Jenna Bush Hager on The Today Show) even as Adunni shows us how one courageous young girl can inspire us all to reach for our dreams…and maybe even change the world.
| Author | : Marc Matera |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2011-10-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0230356060 |
In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspectives of the war's colonized and colonial participants and examines its various actions within a single, gendered analytical frame.
| Author | : Azeenarh Mohammed |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Gender expression |
| ISBN | : 9781911115595 |
A brave and ground-breaking anthology of queer women's life stories
| Author | : Hilary Matfess |
| Publisher | : Zed Books Ltd. |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2017-11-15 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1786991489 |
For over a decade, Boko Haram has waged a campaign of terror across northeastern Nigeria. In 2014, the kidnapping of 276 girls in Chibok shocked the world, giving rise to the #BringBackOurGirls movement. Yet Boko Haram’s campaign of violence against women and girls goes far beyond the Chibok abductions. From its inception, the group has systematically exploited women to advance its aims. Perhaps more disturbing still, some Nigerian women have chosen to become active supporters of the group, even sacrificing their lives as suicide bombers. These events cannot be understood without first acknowledging the long-running marginalisation of women in Nigerian society. Having conducted extensive fieldwork throughout the region, Hilary Matfess provides a vivid and thought-provoking account of Boko Haram’s impact on the lives of Nigerian women, as well as the wider social and political context that fuels the group’s violence.
| Author | : Helen Callaway |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 1986-08-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1349183075 |
| Author | : Nwando Achebe |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2011-02-21 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0253222486 |
While providing critical perspectives on women, gender, sex and sexuality, and the colonial encounter, she considers how it was possible for this woman to take on the office and responsibilities of a traditionally male role.
