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Author: Benedict Chidi Nwachukwu-Udaku
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1463414129
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 435

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HIV/AIDS constitutes a global problem. A good number of scholars from different nationalities, multiple rationalities, religious sensibilities, theological intelligibilities and ethical, cultural, and ecclesiastical backgrounds have affirmed that this worldwide quagmire constitutes a global health problem and social malady which does not have a well-defined geographically limited spread. The global nature of HIV/AIDS as seen in the statistics does not however undermine the fact that the effects of this sickness are not felt proportionally from one nation to another. This book proposes to situate the local as a veritable site of empowerment for communities dealing with HIV/AIDS, as it is the case with the African continent. The author of this book, over and above the way the problem of HIV/AIDS has been constructed, projected, and reviewed, decided to situate this epidemic of the 20th Century within the socio-cultural and political context of the Nigerian nation with particular reference to the Igbo people. The task of contextualizing this problem reveal the identity of the author as an Igbo, and as a theologian, who engages the indigenous ethical principles, unsophisticated traditional wisdom, cultural and religious values of his people in offering solutions that resonate the cultural identity of his people in dialogue with modern and post-modern constructs.

Author: S.A. Abakwue
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456889508
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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Akwụkwọ nkea bu maka ego. Edere m ya ka iwee gụa ya, were kwa ndumọdu di nime ya lụa ọlu. Ọchichọm bu ka inweta aku na uba ri nne. Ọbụrụ na ọbughi otua, agaghi m etufu ogem nihi na ogem bu ihe di oke ọnụ ahia. Achọtara m, na oge mụ na gi di nkpumkpu n'elu ụwa. Oge nke na-agafe adighi aloghachi; nihi na ọpughi ilọghachi. Ọbụ ihe kwesiri ekwesi ka iwere ogea di ntakiri lụa ọlụ diri gi bu ọlụ buru ibu, na ọlụ di itu-n'anya. Ọbụrụ na ipụghi ime otua, oge ahu bu nani ihe efu. Ọbughi nzube m ka idọgbue onwe gi n'ọlụ n'efu. Ihe mwute ka ọbu na ọtụtụ mmadu bu ndi-oru n'ebe aku na ụba di. Tule okwua n'obi gi kwa ụbọchi, tumadu, n'ututu, mgbe itetara n'ụra. Tule ya n'oge ina-eje ilụrụ ndi-ọzọ ọlụ.

Author: Barbara Saunders
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9789058672018
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the essays in this book develop contextual and strategic analyses of the way sex-gender constellations can be configured as political identities, as a resource, or in response to unforeseen contingencies.

Author: Professor Ifi Amadiume
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN: 178360333X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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In 1987, more than a decade before the dawn of queer theory, Ifi Amadiume wrote Male Daughters, Female Husbands, to critical acclaim. This compelling and highly original book frees the subject position of 'husband' from its affiliation with men, and goes on to do the same for other masculine attributes, dislocating sex, gender and sexual orientation. Boldly arguing that the notion of gender, as constructed in Western feminist discourse, did not exist in Africa before the colonial imposition of a dichotomous understanding of sexual difference, Male Daughters, Female Husbands examines the structures in African society that enabled people to achieve power, showing that roles were not rigidly masculinized nor feminized. At a time when gender and queer theory are viewed by some as being stuck in an identity-politics rut, this outstanding study not only warns against the danger of projecting a very specific, Western notion of difference onto other cultures, but calls us to question the very concept of gender itself.

Author: Gus Udo
Publisher: Gus Udo
ISBN: 0984045317
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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This vivid memoir offers a fascinating glimpse into the modern-day life of a West African emigrant who embarks on an extraordinary half-century journey to England and America. An intelligent, poignant, and ultimately inspiring account of how unforeseen circumstances can change lives dramatically.

Author: New York African Studies Association. Conference
Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9781586842208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Author: Osonye Tess Onwueme
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814336779
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Tell It To Women gives traditional rural women a voice: the women from Idu break from their assumed position of silence and powerlessness to confront the urban women who believe their western education gives them the authority to speak for all women. Using the magic of movement, dance, and drama, and the devices of humor and metaphor, Osonye Tess Onwueme has created a post-feminist epic drama that transcends current feminist theories. An ideologically and politically powerful work, Tell It to Women offers a critical discourse on the western feminist movement from an African traditional perspective, focusing attention on the often silenced issues of intra-gender politics and class inequities.

Author: S.A. Abakwue
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479732524
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Path to Progress, was originally written in the African language, Igbo. Now, it is translated into the global language, English. A look at the book’s contents reveals a literary fortress in pure contents...the very rays of the financial spirits ... the virile bulk of ideas, drawn from the eternal oceans of financial wealth. For example, the seven phenomenal steps, and even the eight tremendous blessings, are among the liberating forces that would fight to free the shackled from financial bondage. The eight forms of wealth are so woven through the pages of the book’s fifteen chapters ... among them: desire, talent, hope, learning, encouragement, determination, work, innate experience, etc. These citadels of wisdom are not only the forces of enrichment, the mirrors of pure paths to clear wealth, but even the very clouds of the coming rain of eternal progress. Show more Show less

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Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 482

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Author: Patrick E. Iroegbu
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450096271
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 564

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Healing Insanity: A Study of Igbo Medicine in Contemporary Nigeria is an original and in-depth study on endogenous medical system in an African society. It is craftily written and provides solid insight, through case studies and theory, into how insanity affects patients and the society. Particularly, it explores various collective representations and strategies regarding insanity and healing as it examines the healing institutions, healers, and ritual cults. The central question is, given the patterns of healing, how do the Igbo shape the incidence and symptoms of insanity, define its aetiology, and provide healers with culture-specific resources and skills to address this illness? The focus became increasingly centred on bodily semantics and endogenous knowledge systems and practices. Dr. Patrick Iroegbu's work is a very valuable and rare study and has appeared at a desirable time. It is, for an African society, a comprehensive study of the many ways Igbo people, in their practical, routinelike attitudes and body-centred experiences, as well as in their more reflective aetiologic knowledge and healing institutions, relate to the phenomenon of insanity, or ara, in the cultural parlance. As the first of its kind, reminiscent of, and assured by, the various remarks of Igbo scholars and leaders at various meetings and discourses, the task this work has set out to accomplish is a very brave one. The author's account of his fieldwork experiences and adopted techniques illustrates his initiation, revealing him as a genuine ethnographer who is a "friend of people and at ease with his field." With both the far-seeing and inspiring analysis of Igbo medicine, life, and culture accounted for in the work, the book stands out for ethnographers, teachers, students, leaders, policymakers, and the general public. This is a book that deserves to be read as it shapes the critical path toward understanding ways of healing insanity in a culture-specific context, crosscutting perspectives for a relationship between indigenous healing and the biomedical sphere. Prof. René Devisch (Africa Research Centre, University of Leuven) This book is written with a clear purpose for everyone to read to understand and heal insanity and indeed provides a thick piece of cultural philosophy and vernacular of Igbo medicine in hopes of putting cultural wisdom in pursuit of integral health care development. Prof. Pantaleon Iroegbu (Professor of Philosophy, Major-Seminary, Ekpoma, January 2006) To read this book, as I did, is to get the benefit of Dr. Patrick Iroegbu's ethnographic insight for an archetypical African healing system in Igboland. It offers a fascinating theory of symbolic release that speaks of African symbolic action and knowledge system. Dr. Paul Komba, Esq. (University of Cambridge)