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Author: Mazi O. Ojiaku Publisher: Booklocker.com ISBN: 9781634901901 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 198
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Tracing the origin of the Igbo people back to the Bantu in antiquity, and exploring the etymology of the word Igbo, the author notes that, although the name is not native to the language, the people have always inhabited the same geo-physical environment, held similar worldview and shared, in all its diversity, the same culture. Out of this common ecology and cosmology emerged the Igbo Personality: the egalitarian democrat and collective individualist, Pan-Nigerian in outlook
Author: Mazi O. Ojiaku Publisher: Booklocker.com ISBN: 9781634901901 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 198
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Tracing the origin of the Igbo people back to the Bantu in antiquity, and exploring the etymology of the word Igbo, the author notes that, although the name is not native to the language, the people have always inhabited the same geo-physical environment, held similar worldview and shared, in all its diversity, the same culture. Out of this common ecology and cosmology emerged the Igbo Personality: the egalitarian democrat and collective individualist, Pan-Nigerian in outlook
Author: Chinua Achebe Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0385474547 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 226
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“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.
Author: Mazi O. Ojiako Publisher: ISBN: 9781938598098 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This study not only traces the origin of the Igbo people to the Bantu in antiquity but also explores the etymology and meaning of the noun, Igbo. While it notes that the name is not native to the Igbo Language, it affirms that north and south, east and west, the Igbo society is monolingual, mono-cultural and mono-ethnic. The implication is that the people have always inhabited the same geo-physical environment, held similar worldview and shared, in all its unity in diversity, the same culture. The Igbo personality that emerged out of this common ecology and cosmology is a composite: the collective individualist, pragmatic and eclectic, and an egalitarian democrat with a strong Pan-Nigerian outlook. But rather than earn him the admiration of his compatriots, the profile, sadly, would appear to arouse misdirected aggression from some quarters. The aggression seems to be a reaction to the Igbo objection to the difficulties created by members of the closed society in Nigeria against building her into a united and progressive nation. In the interest of the Igbo youth, the author recommends that their egalitarianism be increased and strengthened through education by broadening its opportunity for them; making schooling not only free but also compulsory; providing the best menu, method and material for their learning especially at the primary and secondary school levels; and preserving their fathers' language (father tongue) by utilizing it in instruction in the schools.
Author: Chinedu Paul Ezenwa Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH ISBN: 3832551999 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 253
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Where today is a specific, original and stable basis for a Political order to be found? What does the human dignity mean in the midst of the general crises of values? In the face of the ambivalent achievements of modernity and enlightenment, do the values of Christianity which until now have been regarded as the objective norm fail in its contact with the primal culture and the culture of the African communities? Where in this classes are the weakening and strengthening and specific challenges of this African People? This field of conflict must not only be described, but above all to ask about new opportunities to get out of the crisis of the value of human dignity in the Igbo society of Southeastern Nigeria. Ezenwas work seeks and aids understanding, using the facility of examining the subject of dignity in Igbo culture to throw light that casts much farther than the subject matter, begging for further inquiry into other complementary aspects of the culture. In other to achieve this, interdisciplinary research was needed.
Author: Donatus Ibe Nwoga Publisher: ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 492
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The Igbo people today find themselves in a transitional context. The papers presented in this book are the outcome of a seminar on the problems of identifying and defining the hero in Igbo life and literature, both traditional and modern. The contributors, leading Igbo scholars in the humanities and literature, review the Igbo tradition and issues crucial to the understanding of the Igbo psyche and survival as a people in a modern and multinational environment. They address whether heroes are the kind experienced in the past, or whether they are copied from their colonial masters. They attempt to identify whether there is any relevance or value in traditional concepts of heroism for modern Igbo society.
Author: Henry CHUKWUDI OKEKE Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster ISBN: 3643911092 Category : Igbo (African people) Languages : en Pages : 398
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If there is no religion in the world, the world would more or less become a jungle. The world will be inhuman. Religion touches all aspects of human life. Identifying God's will in our world today has become a major problem for many religions of the world. In the past, in Igbo Traditional Religion, human sacrifice as well as the killing of twins were practised. For the Igbo traditionalists then, that was the will of the deities and equally not against God's will. But following the encounter of Igbo Traditional Religion with Christianity these are no longer practised. Misinterpretation of God's will by some religions of the world has given rise to religious violence, religious extremism, fanaticism and terrorism we are experiencing today in the world. For these problems to be resolved, it is pertinent that the study of various religions be taken seriously. This study should be aiming at better understanding, co-existence, respect for one another and frequent inter-religious dialogues among the various religions of the world. When this is achieved, the believers of various religions would realize that many are worshipping one God and their desire is to communicate with Him, although they may approach Him differently.
Author: Christopher I. Ejizu Publisher: Fourth Dimension Publishing Company ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 222
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A study of Igbo ritual symbolism is of primary significance to the systematic reconstruction of Igbo traditional religious experience and life. As the clearest visible expression of the corpus of Igbo beliefs, sacred symbols provide reliable information about indigenous religious thought and socio-cultural life. This is especially the case with the dominant symbol of Ofo, since it occupies a unique place in the Igbo ritual network. The book makes a systematic and detailed analysis of Ofo ritual symbol, including its provenance, structural variations and functional range in the different sub-cultural zones of Igboland, and its dense meaning- content. The study is presented from a historical perspective.
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