Igbo Women In The Diaspora And Community Development In Southeastern Nigeria

Author : Sussie U. Aham-Okoro
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498544290

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Igbo Women in the Diaspora and Community Development in Southeastern Nigeria by Sussie U. Aham-Okoro Pdf

Gender, Migration and Development in Africa: Igbo Women in the Diaspora and Community Development in Southeastern Nigeria provides a unique approach to the study of the role of Igbo women in the diaspora to community development in Igboland. Utilizing primary sources, specifically, migration stories of women and the groups they form in the United States and other parts of the world, the book highlights the dynamism in the zeal to give back to their communities of origin in Igboland. The book seeks to affirm the propensity of Igbo women to evolve through personal efforts and formation of social groups to extend humanitarian services to underprivileged individuals and societies in Igboland. Through several community development programs, they have provided needed medical and educational supplies, hospital equipment, supplies and sponsored several medical missions in different parts of the Igboland. This book further counters the previously understudied role of women in development. Through a comprehensive documentation of the various programs and projects completed by the groups and individual charities, readers and policy makers will be inspired to appreciate the efforts of the various groups and extend needed support and assistance to the groups. The findings in the book reveal the increasing shift from the brain drain concept to brain circulation and networking within the Igbo women community. They are positively utilizing the skills and resources acquired from their host communities to engage in the development processes through remittances and social development projects. The study reinforces the trends and ideas that the improvement of African societies may well depend on the contributions of Africans outside the continent, especially women.

Author : Gloria Chuku
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415972108

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Igbo Women and Economic Transformation in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900-1960 by Gloria Chuku Pdf

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."

Author : Gloria Chuku,Sussie U. Aham-Okoro
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793617859

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Women and the Nigeria-Biafra War by Gloria Chuku,Sussie U. Aham-Okoro Pdf

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 : Apollos O. Nwauwa,Ogechi E. Anyanwu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498589697

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Culture, Precepts, and Social Change in Southeastern Nigeria by Apollos O. Nwauwa,Ogechi E. Anyanwu Pdf

This book provides a unique insight into understanding the Igbo social, economic, and political world through comprehensive analyses of indigenous and foreign religious practices, issues surrounding women, literature, language, sexism in musical lyrics, films, and community development and government. It also explores thought-provoking cultural practices relating to marriage and divorce, reincarnation, naming, and masquerade dance. The themes covered in the book help readers appreciate the often-neglected multifaceted local and external forces that continue to shape the Igbo experience in southeastern Nigeria.

Author : Victoria R. Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1338 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440861185

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Indigenous Peoples [4 volumes] by Victoria R. Williams Pdf

The book is an essential resource for those interested in investigating the lives, histories, and futures of indigenous peoples around the world. Perfect for readers looking to learn more about cultural groups around the world, this four-volume work examines approximately 400 indigenous groups globally. The encyclopedia investigates the history, social structure, and culture of peoples from all corners of the world, including their role in the world, their politics, and their customs and traditions. Alphabetically arranged entries focus on groups living in all world regions, some of which are well-known with large populations, and others that are lesser-known with only a handful of surviving members. Each entry includes sections on the group's geography and environment; history and politics; society, culture, and tradition; access to health care and education; and threats to survival. Each entry concludes with See Also cross-references and a list of Further Reading resources to guide readers in their research. Also included in the encyclopedia are Native Voices inset boxes, allowing readers a glimpse into the daily lives of members of these indigenous groups, as well as an appendix featuring the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Author : Martin S. Shanguhyia,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000713930

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Development In Modern Africa by Martin S. Shanguhyia,Toyin Falola Pdf

Development in Modern Africa: Past and Present Perspectives contributes to our understanding of Africa’s experiences with the development process. It does so by adopting a historical and contemporary analysis of this experience. The book is set within the context of critiques on development in Africa that have yielded two general categories of analysis: skepticism and pessimism. While not overlooking the shortcomings of development, the themes in the book express an optimistic view of Africa’s development experiences, highlighting elements that can be tapped into to enhance the condition of African populations and their states. By using case studies from precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial Africa, contributors to the volume demonstrate that human instincts to improve material, social and spiritual words are universal. They are not limited to the Western world, which the term and process of development are typically associated with. Before and after contact with the West, Africans have actively created institutions and values that they have actively employed to improve individual and community lives. This innovative spirit has motivated Africans to integrate or experiment with new values and structures, challenges, and solutions to human welfare that resulted from contact with colonialism and the postcolonial global community. The book will be of interest to academics in the fields of history, African studies, and regional studies.

Author : Suzanne Manizza Roszak
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496842930

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They Also Write for Kids by Suzanne Manizza Roszak Pdf

Outside the world of children’s literature studies, children’s books by authors of well-known texts “for adults” are often forgotten or marginalized. Although many adults today read contemporary children’s and young adult fiction for pleasure, others continue to see such texts as unsuitable for older audiences, and they are unlikely to cross-read children’s books that were themselves cross-written by authors like Chinua Achebe, Anita Desai, Joy Harjo, or Amy Tan. Meanwhile, these literary voices have produced politically vital works of children’s literature whose complex themes persist across boundaries of expected audience. These works form part of a larger body of activist writing “for children” that has long challenged preconceived notions about the seriousness of such books and ideas about who, in fact, should read them. They Also Write for Kids: Cross-Writing, Activism, and Children’s Literature seeks to draw these cross-writing projects together and bring them to the attention of readers. In doing so, this book invites readers to place children’s literature in conversation with works more typically understood as being for adult audiences, read multiethnic US literature alongside texts by global writers, consider children’s poetry and nonfiction as well as fiction, and read diachronically as well as cross-culturally. These ways of reading offer points of entry into a world of books that refuse to exclude young audiences in scrutinizing topics that range from US settler colonialism and linguistic prejudice to intersectional forms of gender inequality. The authors included here also employ an intricate array of writing strategies that challenge lingering stereotypes of children’s literature as artistically as well as intellectually simplistic. They subversively repurpose tropes and conventions from canonical children’s books; embrace an epistemology of children’s literature that emphasizes ambiguity and complexity; invite readers to participate in redefining concepts such as “civilization” and cultural belonging; engage in intricate acts of cross-cultural representation; and re-envision their own earlier works in new forms tailored explicitly to younger audiences. Too often disregarded by skeptical adults, these texts offer rich rewards to readers of all ages, and here they are brought to the fore.

Author : Gabriele Rosenthal
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9783863955717

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Transnational Biographies by Gabriele Rosenthal Pdf

Every day many people leave the place where they live and move to some other place, where they settle permanently or stay for many years. The contributions to this volume are based on the results of three empirical research projects which set out to investigate the situation of migrants in Jordan, Brazil, Germany and other European countries. The articles focus on migrants at their place of arrival and ask questions such as: How do they look back on their life histories and migration paths? What dynamics and processes led up to their migration projects and how do they explain their motives? The studies in this volume show that leaving and arriving are interrelated: leaving one’s home region is part of a long process, partly planned and partly unplanned, which is determined by complex collective, familial and individual constellations, and which has significant consequences for the action patterns and participation strategies of migrants in their arrival societies. This book also shows which constellations enable some migrants to realize their goals in their present situation, and which constraints or obstacles make it impossible for others to do so.

Author : Akinloyè Òjó,Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe,Felisters Jepchirchir Kiprono
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351119887

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Gender and Development in Africa and Its Diaspora by Akinloyè Òjó,Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe,Felisters Jepchirchir Kiprono Pdf

This book considers how the establishment and/or improvement of gender equality impacts on the social, economic, religious, cultural, environmental and political developments of human societies in Africa and its Diaspora. An interdisciplinary team of contributors examine the role of gender in development against the background of Africa’s convoluted and arduous history of state formation, slavery, colonialism, post-independence, nation-building and poverty. Each chapter highlights and stimulates further discussion on the struggles that many African and African Diaspora societies grapple with in the perplexing issue of gender and development - concentrating on gains that have been made and the challenges yet to be surmounted.

Author : Yomi Oruwari
Publisher : Vantage Publishers International
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073040060

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Women, Development, and the Nigerian Environment by Yomi Oruwari Pdf

Author : Michael Kevane
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1588262383

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Women and Development in Africa by Michael Kevane Pdf

Kevane explores gender issues in Africa in the context of the continent's poor economic performance.

Author : Victor Chikezie Uchendu
Publisher : New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015001691669

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The Igbo of Southeast Nigeria by Victor Chikezie Uchendu Pdf

"Examines the Igbo social system and view of the world. Covers their contact with European culture and the warfare that raged within the Igbo borders."--Textbooks.com viewed Dec. 8, 2020.

Author : Catherine M. Coles,Barbara Entwisle,Margaret Hardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Reference
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040420445

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Nigerian Women in Development by Catherine M. Coles,Barbara Entwisle,Margaret Hardner Pdf

Author : Michael Muonwe
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781524562892

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New Dawn for African Women by Michael Muonwe Pdf

The need for renegotiation of the place and role of women in the family, the Church, and the society cannot be any more urgent than now, especially as people are more aware of the devastating effects of the evils of inequality, discrimination, and oppression. It is a pity that the excellent qualities of bravery, industry, resilience, and perseverance historically attributed to African women, with which they negotiated for better place in the family, the Church, and the society, have been manipulated to serve as instruments for their denigration. The problem is that the patriarchal articulations of gender relations from the western world that entered Africa through colonialism, Christianity, western education and globalization allied themselves with the macho elements in African culture, and institutionalized the oppression of women; a move that women have always resisted both overtly and covertly. But how long could they hang on? This book provides exceptional and critical assessment of these issues, especially from the perspective of the Igbo society of Nigeria. Apart from assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the efforts made by women themselves to surmount these challenges, it also explores how the autochthonous values of the traditional culture could integrate with Christian values to enthrone gender equality in the society. Fr Muonwe demonstrated in this present publication his pastoral zeal for justice especially on the predicaments of women in African nay Igbo society. He regrets as it were that the African (Igbo) traditional society is still far from realizing the Christian gospel ideal of dignity and equality of human person because of the obvious environment that is strictly androcentric and carefully crafted in patriarchal hegemony I thank Fr Muonwe for this timely publication especially for many Igbo Christian communities today experiencing crisis in several aspects of our culture I hope the Bishops, the Priests, the Religious and Laity will find in this present work a rare and indispensable treasure for solutions to our pastoral predicaments. Rev. Fr. Prof. Anthony B. C. Chiegboka. New Dawn for African Women is encyclopaedic in content and daunting in its wealth of documentation [It] is a well-written book. The contents covered much more than Igbo women, or gender issues. It addressed such other issues as Igbo cosmology, Igbo concept of life and death, the history of Christianity in Igboland and Igbo social anthropology, among others. It is a book, which every Nigerian, especially the Igbo, should read. The book is inspirational and provocative in the extreme; it is original and displays learning lightly carried. One cannot but return to it over and over again after the first reading. I very strongly recommend it to the Nigerian and African reading public. C. Ego Uzoezie (Ph.D.)

Author : Amadu Sesay,Adetanwa Odebiyi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112643841

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Nigerian Women in Society and Development by Amadu Sesay,Adetanwa Odebiyi Pdf