Author: A. Kalada HartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calabar (Nigeria)
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Report of the Enquiry Into the Dispute Over the Obongship of Calabar
Author: A. Kalada HartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calabar (Nigeria)
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Report of Enquiry Into Obong of Calabar Dispute
Author: E. A. UdohPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calabar (Nigeria)
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Religion in Calabar
Author: Rosalind I. J. HackettPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 311084673X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems– both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.
Etuboms' Paper on the Obongship of Calabar
Author: Twenty-nine Years in the West Indies and Central Africa
Author: Hope Masterton WaddellPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0714618810
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
First Published in 1970. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Of God and Maxim Guns
Author: Geoffrey JohnstonPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889207542
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
The founding of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria arose out of the enthusiasm of the young church in Jamaica. The first mission party arrived in Calabar in 1846 and settled into a routine of preaching, teaching, campaigning for social reform, ministerial training, and practising medicine. With the coming of the British Empire after 1890, a new generation of missionaries—armed with a kind of colonial mentality—appeared; thirty years later there was a network of churches and schools, and the missionaries who had begun as pastors of congregations had become administrators of districts. By the 1930s the church had developed a large corps of trained teachers and a smaller corps of trained ministers, men and women who were beginning to assert their independence. By 1950 the nationalist period had begun, a period marked by rapid growth of primary and secondary schools and teacher-training colleges and, most importantly, by a shift in power from the Mission Council to the Synod, which represented the church as a whole. By 1960 the church was back where it had started—with its affairs regulated by a court in which missionaries and natives sat and argued as equals. A former president of the American Historical Association observed more than fifteen years ago that "mission history is a great and underused research laboratory for the comparative observation of cultural stimulus and response in both directions." In God and Maxim Guns, Geoffrey Johnston makes a substantial contribution to the field of mission history.
Twenty-nine Years in the West Indies and Central Africa
Author: The Rev Hope Masterton WadellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136257373
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
First published in 1970. This vivid account of the missionary work of the Rev. Hope Masterton Waddell in the West Indies and Central Africa was first published in 1863. During his sixteen years in Jamaica he witnessed the slave revolt and the aftermath of the abolition of slavery. The mission helped former slaves adapt to freedom in new communities. In 1846 he left Jamaica for Calabar in West Africa (now part of Nigeria), and his narrative is one of the best European accounts of pre-colonial Africa. The mission was concerned with ending local practices such as polygamy, human sacrifice and witchcraft, and Waddell formed a close relationship with King Eyo. The book gives considerable detail about the history and culture of the area, as well as on the work of the mission. His work in Calabar is still commemorated there in the Hope Waddell Training Institute, Duke Town.
A Place in the World
Author: Axel Harneit-SieversPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004492232
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Local histories, written and published by non-academic historians, constitute a rapidly expanding genre in contemporary non-Western societies. However, academic historians and anthropologists usually take little notice of them. This volume takes a comparative look at local historical writing. Thirteen case studies, set in seven different countries of sub-Saharan Africa, India and Nepal, examine the authors, their books and their audiences. From different perspectives, they analyse the genre's intellectual roots, its relationship to oral historical narratives, and its relevance and impact in local and wider arenas. Local histories, it turns out, pursue a variety of agendas. They (re)construct local and communal identities affected by rapid social change. Often, they (re)write history as part of cultural and political struggles. Openly or implicitly, all of them place local communities on the map of the world at large.
The Diary of Antera Duke, an Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader
Author: Stephen D. BehrendtPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199704449
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
In his diary, Antera Duke (ca.1735-ca.1809) wrote the only surviving eyewitness account of the slave trade by an African merchant. A leader in late eighteenth-century Old Calabar, a cluster of Efik-speaking communities in the Cross River region, he resided in Duke Town, forty-five miles from the Atlantic Ocean in what is now southeast Nigeria. His diary, written in trade English from 1785 to 1788, is a candid account of daily life in an African community at the height of Calabar's overseas commerce. It provides valuable information on Old Calabar's economic activity both with other African businessmen and with European ship captains who arrived to trade for slaves, produce, and provisions. This new edition of Antera's diary, the first in fifty years, draws on the latest scholarship to place the diary in its historical context. Introductory essays set the stage for the Old Calabar of Antera Duke's lifetime, explore the range of trades, from slaves to produce, in which he rose to prominence, and follow Antera on trading missions across an extensive commercial hinterland. The essays trace the settlement and development of the towns that comprised Old Calabar and survey the community's social and political structure, rivalries among families, sacrifices of slaves, and witchcraft ordeals. This edition reproduces Antera's original trade-English diary with a translation into standard English on facing pages, along with extensive annotation. The Diary of Antera Duke furnishes a uniquely valuable source for the history of precolonial Nigeria and the Atlantic slave trade, and this new edition enriches our understanding of it.
Studies in Southern Nigerian History
Author: Boniface I. ObicherePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135781087
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
First Published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.