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Author : Ekhaguosa Aisien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Benin City (Nigeria)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112339242
Author : Ekhaguosa Aisien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Benin City (Nigeria)
ISBN : 9785293564
Author : Uyilawa Usuanlele
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666943320
Despite the enormous work on diasporas relating to Africa, the majority of this work focuses on trade diasporas located in West African groups, only mentioning the pre-colonial period in passing. Therefore, there is a need to redirect research on diasporas from within Africa to include non-economic diasporas during this time period. Diasporas and Ethnic Identity in Africa: The Edo ne Ekue among the Northeast Yoruba, 1485–1995 fills a gap by discussing the existence of diasporas in pre-colonial Africa that have been neglected by African scholars. Using the Edo ne Ekue as a case study, Uyilawa Usuanlele examines Edo people by shedding light on their political institutions, trading networks, and associations as autonomous and distinct within the Benin Kingdom. This book also discusses how the Edo ne Ekue simultaneously linked their institutions with the royal court of the Benin Kingdom at the expense of the local rulers of their host communities. Throughout this study, Usuanlele provides a better understanding of ethnic identity, state by state relations and their members outside their territorial boundaries to discover the dynamics of political, economic, and social changes within and between communities during and after pre-colonial times.
Author : Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351254595
The 16th century bronze plaques from the kingdom of Benin are among the most recognized masterpieces of African art, and yet many details of their commission and installation in the palace in Benin City, Nigeria, are little understood. The Benin Plaques, A 16th Century Imperial Monument is a detailed analysis of a corpus of nearly 850 bronze plaques that were installed in the court of the Benin kingdom at the moment of its greatest political power and geographic reach. By examining European accounts, Benin oral histories, and the physical evidence of the extant plaques, Gunsch is the first to propose an installation pattern for the series.
Author : Gore Charles Gore
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Benin City (Nigeria)
ISBN : 9781474468589
This book explores the roles of contemporary urban shrines and their visual traditions in Benin City. It focuses on the charismatic priests and priestesses who are possessed by a pantheon of deities, the communities of devotees, and the artists who make artifacts for their shrines. The visual arts are part of a wider configuration of practices that include song, dance, possession and healing. These practices provide the means for exploring the relationships of the visual to both the verbal and performance arts that feature at these shrines. The analysis in this book raises fundamental questions about how the art of Benin, and non-Western art histories more generally, are understood. The book throws critical light on the taken-for-granted assumptions which underpin current interpretations and presents an original and revisionist account of Benin art history.
Author : Moses E. Ochonu
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780253032621
A tapestry of innovation, ideas, and commerce, Africa and its entrepreneurial hubs are deeply connected to those of the past. Moses E. Ochonu and an international group of contributors explores the lived experiences of African innovators who have created value for themselves and their communities. Profiles of vendors, farmers, craftspeople, healers, spiritual consultants, warriors, musicians, technological innovators, political mobilizers, and laborers featured in this volume show African models of entrepreneurship in action. As a whole, the essays consider the history of entrepreneurship in Africa, illustrating its multiple origins and showing how it differs from the Western capitalist experience. As they establish historical patterns of business creativity, these explorations open new avenues for understanding indigenous enterprise and homegrown commerce and their relationship to social, economic, and political debates in Africa today.
Author : Daryl Peavy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780557183708
The dynamics of Traditional African Medicine/Magic, kings, mystical warriors,and priests on the rise of the Great Benin empire.
Author : Michael Gehler,Robert Rollinger
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9783658340032
By applying a comparative approach the volume focuses on a select group of „empires“ which are generally not in the focus of empires studies. They are studied in detail and analyzed due to a strict concept that takes into account real history and reception history as well. Reception history becomes more and more an important element in empire studies although this topic is still often more or less underdeveloped. The volume singles out a series of such “forgotten empires”. It aims to provide a methodologically clearly structured as well as a uniform and consistent approach. It develops a general set of questions that help to compare and distinguish these entities. This way the volume intends to examine and to illuminate empires that are generally ignored by modern scholarship.
Author : Idris Ejima Aruwa
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781669813064
This book is a comprehensive history of the Igala kingdom (Kogi state, Nigeria), people, land and language based on the study of the oral traditions, cultural practices, articles, published and unpublished works on Igala history. It is a compendium of the history of the Igala people from the Pre-16th century to the present day using the Igala cultural and rituals practices as evidence of historical events. It is a scholarly work on the chronology of the events that led to the establishment of the present dynastic monarchy in Igala land and the creation of the Igala kingdom which became the greatest pre-colonial kingdom in the River Niger-Benue confluence area in Nigeria, with its influence on the cultural, political and commercial developments on the northern Igbo country and along the River Niger down to the Niger-Delta area. The chronology was discussed under three main eras; the Pre-Dynastic Monarchy Era, the Proto-Dynastic Monarchy Era and The Dynastic Monarchy Era. The events that took place in each of these eras were extensively reported. The book illustrates the cultural leadership development of the autochthonous Igala clans, the Benin vassal Aji-Ata dynasty, the Achadu clan and the Empire building escapades of Ayegba oma Idoko starting from his progenitor “Abutu-Ejeh” breakaway from the ancient Jukun led Kwararafa Kingdom. Other subjects discussed include; the real history behind the sacrifice of Princess Inikpi and Oma-Odoko, the funeral rites and coronation rituals for the Ata-Igala and the origin of the name “Igala”. This book is recommended for students of history and those who want to enrich their knowledge on Igala, people, land, language and other related cultural matters.
Author : Julius Adekunle
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X030563431
Author : Akinwumi Ogundiran
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015003056943
This collection of original essays examines different aspects of historical experience in Nigeria and the adjacent regions from the beginning of agricultural communities about 6,000 B.C. to the eve of colonial rule in the mid-nineteenth century. The volume is the first comprehensive book on the different approaches and themes in Nigeria's pre-colonial history, and it is informed throughout by inter-disciplinary approaches that integrate archaeological data with oral historical narratives, historical ethnography, material culture, and documentary sources. The volume opens with an introduction that problematizes the pre-colonial historiography in Nigeria, situates each chapter in critical historiographic contexts, and identifies pathways for further studies. The introduction is followed by twenty-two chapters addressing a wide range of topics, including regional and inter-group interactions, ethnicity and identity, gender relations, state formation and sociopolitical development, urbanization, migrations, institutional and technological innovations, the intersections of commerce and religion and their impacts on the integration of pre-colonial societies into the Islamic World System, the Atlantic Slave Trade and its impacts, and the prelude to the British colonial conquest. This is the third of the festschrifts to honor and celebrate the achievements of Professor Toyin Falola. Distinguished scholar, teacher, author/editor of over 50 books, and author of hundreds of articles, chapters, and reviews, Professor Falola is certainly the most prolific historian of Africa ever, and arguably the most versatile. The political economy and socio-economic dimensions of his works on pre-colonial Nigeria inform the analytical and thematic approaches of this volume. In so doing, these essays critically celebrate Toyin Falola's contributions to the historiography of Nigeria, and open up new imprints of Nigeria's past.
Author : David U. Edebiri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Benin (Kingdom)
ISBN : UOM:39015061442391
Author : Ekhaguosa Aisien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Benin (Kingdom)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028509490
Author : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : African Americans
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026440888
Author : Thorsten Spahr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Benin
ISBN : UOM:39015066819783