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Igbo Art and Culture and other Essays (Classic Authors and Texts on Africa) by Simon Ottenberg, 2005-11-15 Igbo Singing and Three Igbo Stories:A Poetic Interpretation of West African Wisdom (Voices of Indigenous Peoples) by Jabez L. Van Cleef, 2008-06-04 The Meaning of Religious Conversion in Africa: The Case of the Igbo of Nigeria by Cyril C. Okoroche, 1987-09 The Ekumeku Movement: Western Igbo Resistance to the British Conquest of Nigeria 1883-1914 by Don C. Ohadike, 1991-07 Women in Igbo Life and Thought by Joseph Therese Agbasiere, 2000-08-09 Foreign Missionary Background and Indigenous Evangelization in Igboland (Okumenische Studien, 15.) Family Matters: Feminist Concepts in African Philosophy of Culture (S U N Y Series in Feminist Philosophy) by Nkiru Nzegwu, 2006-03-02 Understanding Things Fall Apart: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (The Greenwood Press "Literature in Context" Series) by Kalu Ogbaa, 1999-01-30

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41. African Studies Activities At Carleton University
    I am especially pleased to have a submission from WISER in South africa . often settling down among the indigenous peoples and marrying them,  
    http://caas.concordia.ca/htm/fallwinter03.htm
    
    Extractions: Fall/Winter 2003 From the Editor: Thanks to those of you who sent in submissions for this Fall/Winter Newsletter. I am especially pleased to have a submission from WISER in South Africa Please email me with submissions for the next Newsletter, or with suggestions on content, style, etc., that you would like to see in your Newsletter! Allison Goebel, Editor goebela@post.queensu.ca Upcoming CAAS Conferences The CAAS executive meeting in Boston has set out our plans for the next three CAAS meetings.  In 2004 and 2005, at least, we will be trying something new. Plans are in hand for our joint meeting with the ASA from November 11 th to 14 th 2004 in New Orleans , under the theme of “Language, Memory, and Identity in Africa and the Diaspora.” Of particular interest will be set of specially commissioned panels concerning some of the achievements and ongoing projects of Africanists in Canada , which we will present to the global community of Africanists which gathers at the ASA conference.  Plans are underway for these commissioned panels, but I am open to further suggestions. 

42. ENC Online: World Cultures In The Mathematics Class
    The peoples of West africa and Middle America, as well as the Inuit of the far When the indigenous peoples of North America were pushed westward by  
    http://www.enc.org/features/focus/archive/multi/document.shtm?input=ACQ-111364-1

43. Mirago Indeks : Top : Society : Ethnicity : Indigenous_People
    Aboriginal Connections An indigenous peoples Web Directory - A Oha NezeNdi-igbo - A non-political association of igbos of Nigeria who reside in Cape  
    http://www.mirago.dk/search/directories.aspx?cat=Top/Society/Ethnicity/Indigenou

44. Black History
    Farther south in Nigeria the igbo and related peoples traditionally built With the Westernizing of African cities, much indigenous architecture has been  
    http://www.britannica.com/Blackhistory/article.do?nKeyValue=384737

45. Local Entrepreneurship In Southeast Asia And Subsaharan Africa:
    In the early colonial period, these moves kept most indigenous African The igbo of eastern Nigeria live in one of the more densely populated areas of  
    http://www.unu.edu/hq/academic/Pg_area4/Brautigam.html
    
    Extractions: email: dbrauti@american.edu For much of the past decade, the world has applauded the striking development performance of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. Despite the setbacks caused by the present financial crisis in Asia, the rapid structural transformation and improvement in the standard of living in these three countries remains a powerful testament to the benefits of a strategy emphasizing industrial exports. African countries have tended to remain commodity exporters, and while Africa has remained largely untouched by the "Asian flu", the continent also missed out on the benefits of engagement with the global market. Why has Southeast Asia developed such a dynamic industrial export sector, while Subsaharan Africa has not? Until the recent financial crisis, most analyses argued that Southeast Asia had "developmental states", while Subsaharan Africa largely did not. These developmental states were credited for putting in place the fundamentals of macroeconomic stability and investment in education, and orienting policy to favor exports, or at least to create a level playing field between exports and imports. They were said to have engaged their private sectors in high-level "deliberative councils", designing and implementing policies that encouraged productivity and efficiency. However, the financial crisis put this interpretation into question. In the aftermath of the crisis, the Southeast Asian states are now being castigated for their high levels of patronage, corruption, and business-state collusion.

46. African History And Environmental History
    6 The taming of nature and indigenous peoples emerges as the central motif. in igbo Spatial Heterotopias’ in Luig and von Oppen, The Making of African  
    http://www.h-net.org/~environ/historiography/africaeh.htm

47. Resources On The Igbo
    african Arts Adamma a contemporary igbo maiden spirit on igbo africaIndigenous People Baule Home. africa, african Anthropology General Resources.  
    http://www.mongabay.com/indigenous_ethnicities/african/Igbo.html

48. Resources On The Ibibio
    african indigenous anthropology fon people of the Ibibio, igbo, and otherAfrican people The Ibibio believe that Mami Wata brings  
    http://www.mongabay.com/indigenous_ethnicities/african/Ibibio.html

49. Religious Underpinnings Of The Osu Caste System
    The igbo society is one of those indigenous African groups that underwent onlya partial One could assert that such is the lot of a conquered people.  
    http://www.kwenu.com/publications/nwosu/religion_osu.htm
    
    Extractions: U.S.A. mnwosu@erols.com Friday, August 2002 osu maintained an aloof relationship with the mundane world and rest of the civil society. The early osu ranks, in spite of their spiritual duties at the shrines, were non-celibate and thus had families with offspring that ultimately grew into sizeable communities that dwelt in close proximity of major shrines in parts of Igboland. The civil society maintained a set of taboos that regulated routine interactions between the osu and the general public mostly out of fear or respect for the powerful deities under whose aegis they thrived and performed their religious functions. Intimate social interaction, including marriage, was forbidden between osu and non-osu, for example. In some locales, it is forbidden for the non- osu to spill the blood of osu , even in non-hostile situations. Some go as far as forbidding the non- osu from eating meat that was butchered or prepared in an osu homestead. The list of items that maintain a social divide between the

50. West African Kingdoms 500-1590: Religion And Philosophy History Study Guide
    This list of states and peoples is not exhaustive, but it does provide a indigenous African cultures—especially ritual arts and music—were suppressed.  
    http://www.bookrags.com/samphist/
    
    Extractions: Jump to: Overview Topics In Religion And Phil... Significant People Download the PDF This is an online sample of a complete History Guide. Overview Historiographical Context. Rejecting Classifications. The Rise of Christian Europe (1965), "Undergraduates, seduced, as always, by the changing breath of journalistic fashion, demand that they should be taught the history of black Africa. Perhaps, in the future there will be some African history to teach. But at present there is none, or very little: there is only the history of Europeans in Africa. The rest is darkness . . . and darkness is not a subject of history." Views such as this one are the result of too much reliance on Arabic and European sources and not enough primary research in West African sources. By the final decades of the twentieth century, historians and archaeologists had learned much about the complex civilizations that existed in West Africa between 500 and 1590, cultures whose religious and philosophical traditions have deep indigenous roots. Geographical and Cultural Backgrounds.

51. MISSIO IMMACULATAE: Missionary Page Of The Franciscans Of The Immaculate
    Nigerian culture reflects African, Islamic, and European influences. In thesouth, indigenous peoples produced their own art long before Europeans  
    http://www.marymediatrix.com/mission/kb/kb15/6.shtml
    
    Extractions: The People ... Culture and Arts FACTS AT A GLANCE Country name: Federal Republic of Nigeria Location: Western Africa, bordering the Gulf of Guinea, between Benin and Cameroon Climate: varies; equatorial in south, tropical in center, arid in north Population: Ethnic groups: more than 250 ethnic groups; the most populous and politically influential: Hausa and Fulani

52. SparkNotes: Things Fall Apart: Context
    colonial government and the traditional culture of the indigenous igbo people . Unlike some later African authors who chose to revitalize native  
    http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/things/context.html
    
    Extractions: saveBookmark("", "", ""); Home English Literature Study Guides Things Fall Apart : Context - Navigate Here - Context Plot Overview Character List Analysis of Major Characters Chapters One–Three Chapters Four–Six Chapters Seven–Eight Chapters Nine–Eleven Chapters Twelve–Thirteen Chapters Fourteen–Sixteen Chapters Seventeen–Nineteen Chapters Twenty–Twenty-One Chapters Twenty-Two–Twenty-Three Chapters Twenty-Four–Twenty-Five Important Quotations Explained Key Facts Quiz Suggestions for Further Reading Context A lbert Chinualumogu Achebe was born on November in Ogidi, a large village in Nigeria. Although he was the child of a Protestant missionary and received his early education in English, his upbringing was multicultural, as the inhabitants of Ogidi still lived according to many aspects of traditional Igbo (formerly written as Ibo) culture. Achebe attended the Government College in Umuahia from to . He graduated from University College, Ibadan, in . While he was in college, Achebe studied history and theology. He also developed his interest in indigenous Nigerian cultures, and he rejected his Christian name, Albert, for his indigenous one, Chinua. In the s, Achebe was one of the founders of a Nigerian literary movement that drew upon the traditional oral culture of its indigenous peoples. In

53. «Conversion» In African Traditional Religion
    The concept of conversion is as relevant to African indigenous religions as it is And he described the conversion of a vast majority of igbo people to  
    http://www.afrikaworld.net/afrel/conversion.htm
    
    Extractions: The concept of conversion is as relevant to African indigenous religions as it is to many other religions of humankind. This may sound something of a surprise to some people. After all, the indigenous religions of Africa do not fall within the category of religions generally referred to as universal or missionary religions. They are rather, classed within the family of traditional or folk religions of the world.(1) And this for many people, is another way of saying that African traditional religions admit of little or no change. They thrive in stable and homogenous ethnic societies. They have no founders, reformers, or prophets, and are handed on much in the same form from one generation to the next. In the words of Mbiti, African traditional religions "have no missionaries to propagate them". As folk religions, they are said to be community-based. "People simply assimilate whatever religious ideas and practices are held or observed by their families and communities"(2). This viewpoint assumed that African traditional religions were more or less fossil reality. Against that backdrop, the discussion of the subject of religious conversion made sense for the protagonists only within the context of the encounter of the indigenous religions with the missionary religions that are available now in the Continent, mainly Christianity and Islam (3). While this later contemporary stage in the religious history of Africa is important and of relevance to us in this paper, our discussion of the theme of conversion in African religions proposes to focus on the type of change brought about by dynamic impulses in the differing religious experience of indigenous African groups prior to the encounter, as well as on the phenomenal movement of former adherents as converts to the missionary faiths. This later development clearly amounts to a religious revolution. Both strands of religious change are signalled by and implied in the topic of conversion in African religions. We shall therefore, be handling the two dimensions in this paper. But first, the key concepts ought to be clarified and the scope delimited.

54. MSN Encarta - Nigeria
    The igbo of southeastern Nigeria traditionally live in small, Adherence toIslam, Christianity, or indigenous African religions is central to how  
    http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761557915_3/Nigeria.html
    
    Extractions: Search for books and more related to Nigeria Facts and Figures Quick information and statistics for Nigeria Encarta Search Search Encarta about Nigeria Editors' Picks Great books about your topic, Nigeria ... Click here Advertisement document.write(' Page 3 of 13 Encyclopedia Article Multimedia 40 items Dynamic Map Map of Nigeria Article Outline Introduction Land and Resources The People of Nigeria Arts ... History A Nigeria is still a primarily rural country, with only 47 percent of its population living in cities. Urban areas, however, doubled their share of the population between 1970 and 1996. The country has a long history of urban development, particularly in northern and southwestern Nigeria where substantial cities existed centuries before colonial rule. The largest Nigerian cities are Lagos and Ibadan . Lagos, one of the world’s largest cities, grew as colonial Nigeria’s capital and leading port. Despite its loss of the federal capital in 1991 to

55. MSN Encarta - Africa
    In Nigeria, Yoruba, igbo, and Hausa compete, sometimes violently, Converts werequickly won in northwestern africa, where many people saw Islam as a  
    http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761572628_16/Africa.html
    
    Extractions: Search for books and more related to Africa Encarta Search Search Encarta about Africa Editors' Picks Great books about your topic, Africa ... Click here Advertisement document.write(' Page 16 of 36 Encyclopedia Article Multimedia 161 items Dynamic Map Map of Africa Article Outline Introduction Natural Environment People of Africa Economy ... History B If ethnicity is considered synonymous with how people are identified, both by themselves and others, then throughout Africa, language serves as its primary marker. Language links people to a specific place of origin, which, in turn, signals a shared cultural history. In South Africa, for example, the Zulu and Xhosa speak languages that are almost identical, but the minor differences are enough for people to make the distinction between the two groups. This is important to their sense of identity because the Zulu and Xhosa have followed very different paths over the last several centuries of history. Some peoples have even deeper roots. The Songhai identity existed even before the group ruled a vast West African empire in the 15th and 16th centuries. By way of contrast, the ethnic identities of many other peoples are more recent and often derive largely from external sources. The Gogo of central Tanzania are a case in point. In the mid-19th century they lived in many small clan-based chiefdoms that had no sense of being part of a wider Gogo group, even though they shared the same language. However, the phrase “gogo” was a part of several of the clans’ names, and their Nyamwezi neighbors picked up on this as a way to refer to all of them. When Arab and Swahili traders arrived in the area in the mid-19th century, they adopted this designation and passed it along to the first Europeans to enter the area. Because of repeated use, the name

56. USA/Africa Dialogue, No. 232: Ayittey On Indigenous Values, Part 1
    indigenous Curbs Against Despotism In the eyes of the Gikuyu people, the submissionto a African chief was expected to be humble toward his people but  
    http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/232.html
    
    Extractions: Many folks from around the world have asked to know more about George Ayittey. For the benefits of those who rely on this Dialogue for information to teach and do research, I have been carrying some long articles. This is the minimum we owe others without access to information. In two parts, I will be excerpting a piece from Ayittey's book. NOTE : The following is excerpted from Indigenous African Institutions . If you want to send excepts of your piece abroad through this medium, seek the permission of your publishers and send it to me for circulation. There is a small reward: a small commercial will be posted as in the following. All Ayittey's books are available at http://www.amazon.com. [when school resumes, the volume of postings will reduce to let you all focus on other things]

57. USA/Africa No. 228: Indigenous Values I
    derived from their own indigenous African institution the village issue waslaid before the people to debate and reach a consensus.  
    http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/228.html

58. Discrimination Against Indigenous And Minority Languages In Nigeria
    for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), recommends African governments The National Language Policy discriminates against indigenous peoples  
    http://www.unpo.org/news_detail.php?arg=43&par=2538

59. Ogoni 
    rights of indigenous peoples and tribal communities in the country readmore PFII Hears on Demolitions and Forced Evictions of Ogoni People from the  
    http://www.unpo.org/member.php?arg=43

60. Review: African Anarchism: The History Of A Movement
    in precolonial africa the igbo, the Niger Delta people and the Tallensi . Rather than believing the african people capable of organising their own  
    http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/ws98/ws55_africa.html
    
    Extractions: Few people would associate anarchism with Africa. However, it is certainly beginning to take root in there. This book is written by two members of the Awareness League, a 1000-strong anarcho-syndicalist organisation in Nigeria. Starting with a good introduction to anarchism, the authors outline its relationship with Africa in an attempt to "enrich anarchism and anarchist principles with an African perspective and to carve a place for Africa within the framework of the worldwide anarchist movement". Although anarchism as a conscious social movement is relatively new in Africa, pre-colonial African societies contained many "anarchic elements". This book presents a very interesting study of anarchist tendencies in traditional African societies. While certainly not anarchist, these societies, based on communalism, were self-governing and independent where "every individual without exception takes part, either directly or indirectly in the running of community affairs at all levels." Mbah and Igariwey go on to illustrate their point by giving three case studies of stateless societies in pre-colonial Africa: the Igbo, the Niger Delta people and the Tallensi. Some common characteristics in the structure of such societies were the lack of centralisation, the communal mode of production, and the general absence of social stratification.

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