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Aso Ebi

Author : Okechukwu Charles Nwafor
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472128663
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Aso Ebi written by Okechukwu Charles Nwafor and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebi fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. Okechukwu Nwafor’s volume Aso ebi investigates the practice in the cosmopolitan urban setting of Lagos, and argues that the visual and consumerist hype typical of the late capitalist system feeds this unique fashion practice. The book suggests that dress, fashion, aso ebi, and photography engender a new visual culture that largely reflects the economics of mundane living. Nwafor examines the practice’s societal dilemma, whereby the solidarity of aso ebi is dismissed by many as an ephemeral transaction. A circuitous transaction among photographers, fashion magazine producers, textile merchants, tailors, and individual fashionistas reinvents aso ebi as a product of cosmopolitan urban modernity. The results are a fetishization of various forms of commodity culture, personality cults through mass followership, the negotiation of symbolic power through mass-produced images, exchange value in human relationships through gifts, and a form of exclusion achieved through digital photo editing. Aso ebi has become an essential part of Lagos cosmopolitanism: as a rising form of a unique visual culture it is central to the unprecedented spread of a unique West African fashion style that revels in excessive textile overflow. This extreme dress style is what an individual requires to transcend the lack imposed by the chaos of the postcolonial city.

Colors in Fashion

Author : Jonathan Faiers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474273696
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Colors in Fashion written by Jonathan Faiers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Color speaks a powerful cultural language, conveying political, sexual, and economic messages that, throughout history, have revealed how we relate to ourselves and our world. This ground-breaking compilation is the first to investigate how color in fashionable and ceremonial dress has played a significant social role, indicating acceptance and exclusion, convention and subversion. From the use of white in pioneering feminism to the penchant for black in post-war France, and from mystical scarlet broadcloth to the horrors of arsenic-laden green fashion, this publication demonstrates that color in dress is as mutable, nuanced, and varied as color itself. Divided into four thematic parts – solidarity, power, innovation, and desire – each section highlights the often violent, emotional histories of color in dress across geographical, temporal and cultural boundaries. Underlying today's relaxed attitude to color lies a chromatic complexity that speaks of wars, migrations and economics. While acknowledging the importance that technology has played in the development of new dyes, the chapters explore color as a catalyst for technical innovation that continues to inspire designers, artists, and performers. Bringing together cutting-edge contributions from leading scholars, it is essential reading for academics of fashion, textiles, design, cultural studies and art history.

Anthropology and Beauty

Author : Stephanie Bunn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317400542
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Anthropology and Beauty written by Stephanie Bunn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organised around the theme of beauty, this innovative collection offers insight into the development of anthropological thinking on art, aesthetics and creativity in recent years. The volume incorporates current work on perception and generative processes, and seeks to move beyond a purely aesthetic and relativist stance. The chapters invite readers to consider how people sense and seek out beauty, whether through acts of human creativity and production; through sensory experience of sound, light or touch, or experiencing architecture; visiting heritage sites or ancient buildings; experiencing the environment through ‘places of outstanding natural beauty’; or through cooperative action, machine-engineering or designing for the future.

Africa Wo/Man Palava

Author : Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226620855
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis Africa Wo/Man Palava by : Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi

Download or read book Africa Wo/Man Palava written by Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ogunyemi uses the novels to trace a Nigerian women's literary tradition that reflects an ideology centered on children and community. Of prime importance is the paradoxical Mammywata figure, the independent, childless mother, who serves as a basis for the postcolonial woman in the novels and in society at large. Ogunyemi tracks this figure through many permutations, from matriarch to writer, her multiple personalities reflecting competing loyalties. This sustained critical study counters prevailing "masculinist" theories of black literature in a powerful narrative of the Nigerian world.

Language and the Construction of Multiple Identities in the Nigerian Novel

Author : Romanus Aboh
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1920033343
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Language and the Construction of Multiple Identities in the Nigerian Novel by : Romanus Aboh

Download or read book Language and the Construction of Multiple Identities in the Nigerian Novel written by Romanus Aboh and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language and the construction of multiple identities in the Nigerian novel examines the multifaceted relation between people and the various identities they construct for themselves and for others through the context-specific ways they use language. Specifically, this book pays attention to how forms of identities ethnic, cultural, national and gender are constructed through the use of language in select novels of Adichie, Atta and Betiang. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book draws analytical insights from critical discourse analysis, literary discourse analysis and socio-ethno-linguistic analysis. This approach enables the author to engage with the novels, to illuminate the link between the ways Nigerians use language and the identities they construct. Being a context-driven analysis, this book critically scrutinises literary language beyond stylistic borders by interrogating the micro and macro levels of language use, a core analytical paradigm frequently used by discourse analysts who engage in critical discourse analysis.

Diaspora Networks in International Business

Author : Maria Elo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319910957
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Diaspora Networks in International Business written by Maria Elo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-12 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contributed volume focuses on diasporans, their characteristics, networks, resources and activities in relation to international business and entrepreneurship. It presents an overview of diaspora concepts from an economic perspective, and analyzes the global-economic and societal effects and mechanisms, revealing both positive and negative aspects of diaspora activities. Providing insights into the socio-cultural influences, it discusses diaspora entrepreneurship and international business, the respective organisational models, investments and business types. Lastly it offers an assessment of managing diaspora resources and policymaking. This book was created by an interdisciplinary team of editors, co-authors and reviewers including historians, sociologists, psychologists, linguists and ethnologists, as well as experts in public policy, international business, marketing and entrepreneurship. This unique team (many of the authors are themselves diasporans with an extensive understanding of their topic) provides the first global academic platform on the subject, combining the latest empirical evidence from developing, emerging, transitional and developed countries with various combinations of diaspora flows that to date have received little attention.

Identities, Histories and Values in Postcolonial Nigeria

Author : Adeshina Afolayan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1786615630
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Book Synopsis Identities, Histories and Values in Postcolonial Nigeria by : Adeshina Afolayan

Download or read book Identities, Histories and Values in Postcolonial Nigeria written by Adeshina Afolayan and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial Nigeria has been the subject of many literatures that identify and interrogate the many issues and problems that had made it near impossible for Nigerians to achieve the anticolonial aspirations that gave birth to independent Nigeria. The rationale for this volume is to situate the thematic inquiry into the problematic of postcolonial Nigerian within the ambit of the humanities and its concerns. These thematic issues include identity configurations, aesthetics, philosophical reflections, linguistic dynamics, sociological framings, and so on. The objective of the volume is to enable scholars and students to have new insights and arguments about possibilities that postcoloniality throws up for rethinking the Nigerian state and society.

Hermeneutical Narratives in Art, Literature, and Communication

Author : Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350405442
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)

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Book Synopsis Hermeneutical Narratives in Art, Literature, and Communication by : Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak

Download or read book Hermeneutical Narratives in Art, Literature, and Communication written by Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the relationship between hermeneutics and the arts, including painting, music, and literature, this book builds on hermeneutics from a practical perspective, connecting this area of critical research with others to reveal how it is viewed from different perspectives. International and interdisciplinary in scope, this edited volume draws on the work of scholars and practitioners working across a variety of subject areas, themes and topics, including philosophy, literature, religious paintings, musical oeuvres, Chinese urbanscapes, Moroccan proverbs, and Ukrainian internet blogs. Focusing on the idea of hermeneutics as a discipline that can connect different areas of interest, the book offers an inside view into how the contributors 'interpret' it within their own academic remits, demonstrating its presence in qualitative academic interpretations and canonical contemporary research in humanities.

Achievement Through Adversity

Author : Taj Oladele Ashafa DBA MBA BSHA
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984514954
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Achievement Through Adversity written by Taj Oladele Ashafa DBA MBA BSHA and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of my life, which I want to use to encourage other people that if you believe in God, no matter the trouble you have, he can still deliver you.

The "Liverpool" of West Africa

Author : Ayodeji Olukoju
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592212927
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (129 download)

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Book Synopsis The "Liverpool" of West Africa by : Ayodeji Olukoju

Download or read book The "Liverpool" of West Africa written by Ayodeji Olukoju and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the dynamics and impact of maritime trade in Lagos during the cycles of boom and slump in the first half of the twentieth century, the heyday of British colonial rule. By locating the social and economic history of the port-city in the regional, national and international contexts, it blends the interlocking themes of shipping, maritime trade, labour, entrepreneurship and colonial policy. Based on contemporary ofiicial, private, newspaper and oral accounts, the book traces the rise and fall of of the Liverpool of West Africa.

Family and Social Change in an African City

Author : Peter Marris
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415329958
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Family and Social Change in an African City written by Peter Marris and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

African Women in Towns

Author : Kenneth Little
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521202374
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book African Women in Towns written by Kenneth Little and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974-02-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1973 book analyses the changing position of women in an urban context in sub-Saharan Africa. In spite of the fact that women, at the time of publication, were often important leaders of opinion and in these countries the proportion of women in professional work was at least as large as in Britain, few researchers and even fewer television and newspaper reporters paid them sufficient attention. As the new role of women in Africa was peculiarly a phenomenon of the city, Professor Little's book uses the concept of urbanization in order to analyse the radical changes taking place. He shows how certain women's movements were growing out of the African woman's desire for a new relationship with the man. This leads him to consider the part played by women in the political arena, and women's position not only in monogamous marriage, but also in extra-marital and sexual relationships.

Global Black Narratives for the Classroom: Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean

Author : BLAM UK
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000992802
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Global Black Narratives for the Classroom: Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean written by BLAM UK and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than reserving the teaching of Black history to Black history month, Black narratives deserve to be seen and integrated into every aspect of the school curriculum. A unique yet practical resource, Global Black Narratives for the Classroom addresses this issue by providing primary teachers with a global outline of Black history, culture and life within the framework of the UK’s National Curriculum. Each topic explored in this essential book provides teachers and teaching assistants with historical, geographic and cultural context to build confidence when planning and teaching. Full lesson plans and printable worksheets are incorporated into each topic, alongside tips to build future lessons in line with the themes explored. Volume II of this book explores the following parts: Part 1 guides teachers through planning and delivering lessons focused on Africa. Pupils will benefit from developing a diverse and accurate understanding of the changing nature of Africa throughout history, linking the continent’s social history with its geographical features. Part 2 ‘The Caribbean’, builds upon the lesson plans of Part 1 to further highlight the interconnectedness of diaspora cultures in influencing the musical, visual and religious practices of the Caribbean and Central America. Part 3 begins by addressing the incorrect assumption that the history of Black people in the Americas begins and ends with plantation slavery. Instead, this section proposes a range of in-depth lesson plans on the diverse histories, cultures and experiences of Black people within the United States. Created by BLAM UK, this highly informative yet practical resource is an essential read for any teacher, teaching assistant or senior leader who wishes to diversify their curriculum and address issues of Black representation within their school.

A History of Textiles and Fashion in the Twentieth Century Yoruba World

Author : Mutiat Titilope Oladejo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527579239
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book A History of Textiles and Fashion in the Twentieth Century Yoruba World written by Mutiat Titilope Oladejo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-05 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the local to the global, Yoruba people cherish textile consumption and fashion in everyday life. Central to this is the role of Yoruba women in the making of a fashion culture. As this book shows, textile commodities are entangled in global economic histories, yet the local consumption culture has created a fashion industry that portrays new ways of work and talent display beyond the twentieth century. This text is useful for researchers who wish to gain deeper insights into a critical, but often neglected, aspect of being Yoruba.

Anthropology and the Individual

Author : Daniel Miller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1847884962
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Anthropology and the Individual written by Daniel Miller and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropology is usually associated with the study of society, but the anthropologist must also understand people as individuals. This highly original study demonstrates how methods of social analysis can be applied to the individual, while remaining entirely distinct from psychology and other perspectives on the person. Contributors draw on approaches from material culture to create fascinating portraits of individuals, offering analytical insights that convey ethnographic encounters with often extraordinary people from Turkey, Spain and Britain to Albania, Cuba, Jamaica, Mali, Serbia and Trinidad. Exploring relationships to places and spaces such as social networking sites, to persons such as parents, to ethical concerns such as fairness and to concepts such as the ideology of struggle, Anthropology and the Individual shows how the study of the individual can provide insights into society without losing a sense of the particularity of the person.

Dress in the Making of African Identity: A Social and Cultural History of the Yoruba People

Author : Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621967190
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)

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Book Synopsis Dress in the Making of African Identity: A Social and Cultural History of the Yoruba People by : Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi

Download or read book Dress in the Making of African Identity: A Social and Cultural History of the Yoruba People written by Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book on the social and cultural history of Yoruba people, a people in southwest Nigeria. As the first to provide a comprehensive treatment of Yoruba dress in historical perspective, this book is an important contribution to African history in general and the Yoruba cultural history in particular. The book illuminates the impact of Christianity, Islam, and British colonialism on the construction of Yoruba identity, and how dress was entangled in that construction. It also provides insightful discussions of the transformations in dress culture since independence and demonstrates the importance of dress as a site for contesting and articulating postcolonial Yoruba identity and class structure within the Nigerian national space. This book provides many insights into these issues and is thus an invaluable addition to Africana studies, anthropology, and history.

Up-Country Girl

Author : Phebean Ajib? la Ogundip?
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1468584715
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Up-Country Girl written by Phebean Ajib? la Ogundip? and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up-Country Girl is the story of an African girl from a rural farming community, and the notable achievements and developments in her life, which coincided with many national events. Nigeria moved from being a British colony to independence, and the new democracy was disrupted by a series of coups detat bringing decades of military rule, before a return to civilian rule in 1999. Interwoven into her story are the authors personal views from experience, on old and new polygamy, corruption, sex education, the upbringing of children, business partnerships, the problems of a pluralistic society, work ethics, and other issues. Up-Country Girl also affords the reader a truthful and accurate portrayal of African culture. As a creative writer, the author wrote Nothing So Sweet which won First Prize in a British Council competition; several short stories which were broadcast by the B.B.C; Folktales and Fables published by Penguin Books, and short stories included in two recent anthologies. As an educationist, she is best known as the co-author of secondary school textbooks: New Practical English by Ogundipe and Tregidgo, and Brighter Grammar. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.