The Legendary Uli Women Of Nigeria

Author : Ambassador (Dr.) Robin Renee Sanders
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781483679235

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The Legendary Uli Women of Nigeria by Ambassador (Dr.) Robin Renee Sanders Pdf

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 : Dr. Robin Renee Sanders
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781524568528

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The Rise of Africa’S Small & Medium Size Enterprises by Dr. Robin Renee Sanders Pdf

Ambassador (Dr.) Robin Renee Sanders new book on The Rise of Africas Small & Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs) is an insightful examination of the dramatic shift in the development paradigm for Sub Saharan Africa driven in large part by the imaginative, innovative, and insta-impact leadership of the regions small businesses or SMEs. SMEs have helped drive economic development, growth and aided in increasing the size of the Continents middle class, Sanders says. With the Introduction to the book by renown civil rights leader Ambassador Andrew Young, and the Foreword by Sub Saharan Africas leading businessman, Mr. Aliko Dangote, Sanders book credits the determination of Africa SMEs and entrepreneurs (which includes African nationals, immigrants and African Americans) for stepping into the void left by 40-years of post-independence development approaches that had little impact on reducing overall poverty and creating jobs in the region. Africas dynamic entrepreneurial spirit of Generation-Xers and Millennials are and have formed SMEs and social enterprises that today are responsible for conceiving and inventing many of the new apps, and answers to address the regions age-old poverty issues, Sanders emphasizes. Africa SMEs are not only a key driver for jobs, but serve as an additional catalyst to grow the middle class. Sanders argues that it was the Rise of the Africa SME converging with technology and its mobility that has changed, over the last decade, the focus and direction of development in Sub Saharan Africa. The book has a few vignettes from Sanders diplomatic life and work as CEO of the FEEEDS Advocacy Initiative with Africa SMEs over the years, as well as regional examples of some of innovative things Africa entrepreneurs are doing in sectors ranging from agriculture and food security to energy and climate change. The book also walks readers through what donors, foundations and African stock markets are doing today to help in the SME space. Sanders ends with recommendations of what more can be done by donors, African governments, and the new U.S. administration to further assist Africa SMEs, particularly the group she calls the critical mass, and those at the fragile end of Africas middle class.

Author : Luigi Esposito,Vidya Jain
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527519190

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Connecting Contemporary African-Asian Peacemaking and Nonviolence by Luigi Esposito,Vidya Jain Pdf

This collection brings together accomplished and emerging scholars who are researching and working for grassroots social change throughout Africa and Asia. The essays within are sourced from a series of seminars held during the founding African Peace Research and Education Association Conference at the Economic Community of West African States Parliament in Abuja, Nigeria. The book draws strategic lines of connection between diverse peoples on the two most populous continents. Looking at contemporary Gandhian, Chinese, armed guerrilla, insurrectionist, state-supported, and civil resistance movements, each essay reviews recent attempts at peace-building, while also placing modern efforts in traditional, historic, indigenous contexts.

Author : Felicia Ibezim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1914-01-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1938598067

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The Igbo Women of Nigeria by Felicia Ibezim Pdf

Author : Joseph Therese Agbasiere
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136358937

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Women in Igbo Life and Thought by Joseph Therese Agbasiere Pdf

A member of the Igbo tribe of Nigeria who became a nun and trained as an anthropologist, Joseph Therese Agbasiere had a unique opportunity to transcend some of the preconceptions and subjectivities inevitable when an 'outsider' studies a native society. Her richly detailed ethnography examines kinship practices, marriage customs, and women's responsibilities in the house and the community, establishing the tremendous influence that Igbo women wield in public affairs. Igbo ideas about the universe, the person and spiritual considerations are also discussed and shown to be primarily centred around women. This fascinating work is a testament to the combination of personal insight and academic detachment which the author brought to her study of Igbo women before her death in 1998. It will be a valuable resource for students and scholars in anthropology, African studies and women's studies.

Author : Cheryl Johnson-Odim,Nina Emma Mba
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252066138

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For Women and the Nation by Cheryl Johnson-Odim,Nina Emma Mba Pdf

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 : Adaobi Whyte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Women
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123531084

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The Plight of the Nigerian Woman by Adaobi Whyte Pdf

Author : Salome C. Nnoromele,Salome Nnoromele
Publisher : Lucent Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Igbo (African people)
ISBN : 1560063440

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Life Among the Ibo Women of Nigeria by Salome C. Nnoromele,Salome Nnoromele Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Women
ISBN : UVA:X001011789

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Women in Nigeria Today by Anonim Pdf

Author : Susan James,Bisi Ogunleye,Country Women Association of Nigeria,University of Guelph. International Education Services
Publisher : Guelph, Ont. : International Education Services, University of Guelph
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : 0889553246

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Putting African People First by Susan James,Bisi Ogunleye,Country Women Association of Nigeria,University of Guelph. International Education Services Pdf

Author : Bolanle Awe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X004021143

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Nigerian Women in Historical Perspective by Bolanle Awe Pdf

Author : Kehinde Oniru
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578908018

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Nigeria's First Women by Kehinde Oniru Pdf

Nigeria's Celebrates Its 61st Anniversary in 2021, These 61 Nigerian Women have shaped not only their country but the world.In Nigeria's First Women, Kehinde Oniru relays the stories of sixty-one pioneering women from Nigeria-from sixteenth-century warrior Amina to modern-day Google development Expert Ire Aderinokun, from authors to educators to political activists and beyond. These women-with their remarkable contributions to Nigeria and the world are proof of what is possible with determination, courage, and passion.Nigerian women have the power to become change-makers using their talents, gifts, and passions to change the community and the world. Through insurmountable challenges they faced throughout time, one thing stands true: Nigerian women have never given up or backed down. They have and will continue to persist and prevail.

Author : Uche Azikiwe
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015037768788

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Women in Nigeria by Uche Azikiwe Pdf

Previously a neglected area, women's studies is now a recognized field of study in Nigeria. With more than 500 annotated entries, this bibliography documents the literature on Nigerian women. It covers material from books, journals, theses, dissertations, government documents, and conference papers from 1975 to 1993, the most recent date for which published Nigerian sources are available. Entries appear in chapters devoted to agriculture and economy, national development, education and training, health, home and family, and labor force and workplace. A valuable source of data on women in Nigeria, the book will be useful for researchers and planners interested in women in this country and women in general.

Author : Ngugi wa Thiong'o,Ngugi Thiong'o
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786744190

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Something Torn and New by Ngugi wa Thiong'o,Ngugi Thiong'o Pdf

Novelist Ngugi wa Thiong’o has been a force in African literature for decades: Since the 1970s, when he gave up the English language to commit himself to writing in African languages, his foremost concern has been the critical importance of language to culture. In Something Torn and New, Ngugi explores Africa’s historical, economic, and cultural fragmentation by slavery, colonialism, and globalization. Throughout this tragic history, a constant and irrepressible force was Europhonism: the replacement of native names, languages, and identities with European ones. The result was the dismemberment of African memory. Seeking to remember language in order to revitalize it, Ngugi’s quest is for wholeness. Wide-ranging, erudite, and hopeful, Something Torn and New is a cri de coeur to save Africa’s cultural future.

Author : Bolanle Awe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Women
ISBN : 9783545566

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Nigerian Women Pioneers and Icons by Bolanle Awe Pdf