Author: Nwana, Pita Publisher: African Heritage Press ISBN: 1940729173 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 96
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Omenụkọ (real name: Igwegbe Odum) whose home in Okigwe, Eastern Nigeria, was a popular spot for field trips by students in schools and colleges, as well as a favourite attraction for tourists in the decades before and after the Nigerian Independence in 1960. Generations of Igbo children began their reading in Igbo with Omenụkọ, and those who did not have the opportunity to go to school still read Omenụkọ in their homes or at adult education centers. Omenụkọ was a legendary figure and his 'sayings' became part of the Igbo speech repertoire that young adults were expected to acquire. Omenụkọ, a classic in Igbo Literature, written by Pita Nwana and published in 1933 by Longman, Green & Co, Ltd, London, is in this translation made accessible to a global audience. Emenyonu utilizes his mastery of both languages (Igbo and English) to faithfully present to his audience a complete rendition of Omenụkọ as originally written. The timeless significance of this novel as a progenitor of the Igbo language novel is again underscored.
Author: Ernest N. Emenyonu Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000040704 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 175
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This book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo novel from its antecedents in oral performance, through the emergence of the first published novel, Omenuko, in 1933 by Pita Nwana, to the contemporary Igbo novel. Defining "Igbo literature" as literature in Igbo language, and "Igbo novel" as a novel written in Igbo language, the author argues that oral and written literature in African indigenous languages hold an important foundational position in the history of African literature. Focusing on the contributions of Igbo writers to the development of African literature in African languages, the book examines the evolution, themes, and distinctive features of the Igbo novel, the historical circumstances of the rise of the African novel in the pre-colonial, era and their impact on the contemporary Igbo novel. This book will be of interest to scholars of African literature, literary history, and Igbo studies.
Author: Ernest Emenyo̲nu Publisher: Africa World Press ISBN: 9780865438767 Category : Africa Languages : en Pages : 504
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This compendium of 37 essays provides global perspectives of Achebe as an artist with a proper sense of history and an imaginative writer with an inviolable sense of cultural mission and political commitment.
Author: Damian Ọnwụegbuchulam Eze Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9783631578834 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 316
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In this book the author, relying on the research he carried out in Igboland, Nigeria, leads us to see the action of God's grace already active in the Igbo religious culture called Omenala Ndigbo before the coming of Christian missionaries and how these cultural values have prepared the people to receive the Gospel. But, as he points out, these cultural values on which the Christian message ought to have been built from the beginning were grossly misunderstood and neglected. The Igbo people are now mainly Christians. But because the Gospel has not yet become their culture, some of them have double allegiance to the doctrines of the Church and to the practices of Omenala Ndigbo. The author opines that to build the Catholic Church in Igboland on a solid foundation, the Eucharist must take the central place - since the Eucharist makes the Church and is the source and summit of the life of the Church. Thus the work, which uses the analytical and hermeneutical method known as inculturation, is on Eucharistic Ecclesiology from an Igbo perspective and will be useful for the Church, both at the local and universal levels for self-understanding and renewal, ecumenism, dialogue and mission.
Author: Simon Gikandi Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134582226 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 1009
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The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book covers all the key historical and cultural issues in the field. The Encyclopedia contains over 600 entries covering criticism and theory, African literature's development as a field of scholarship, and studies of established and lesser-known writers and their texts. While the greatest proportion of literary work in Africa has been a product of the twentieth century, the Encyclopedia also covers the literature back to the earliest eras of story-telling and oral transmission, making this a unique and valuable resource for those studying social sciences as well as humanities. This work includes cross-references, suggestions for further reading, and a comprehensive index.
Author: Kenechukwu Obi Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1435733002 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 144
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An age-long tradition bars sons and daughters of the rich and the poor from inter-marrying in their land. Then comes this unexpected unique love that dares to challenge the tradition with its guts of steel. This love yields a bond in the conflict which ensues. A bond that makes the reunion of two hearts, which are its source, inevitable; leaving the tradition with only an option it can't help but accept.
Author: Joshua Nnadimma Ayozie Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0359226744 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 420
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Abattoir of the Innocents", "IN HER REPUBLIC", is a purely political, social, moral and religious satire puts together. it is a visual exposition mirroring the contemporary nation "Nigeria", with the aid of philosophy and logic, the writer tries to remain at the critique level. It could be said to be historical as well because the writer was able to follow the history of the said nation, from the colonized to the contemporary time and had to name her "Akazu" a typical Igbo phrase depicting Bribery, corruption, chaos, dilapidation in all ramifications. It is simply a wonderful way to bring to the world of near and far the state of nature of man in this doomed nation. Man becoming a wolf to the fellow man.
Author: Nwana, Pita
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Author: Ernest Emenyo̲nu
Author: Damian Ọnwụegbuchulam Eze
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Author: Joshua Nnadimma Ayozie