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Download or read book Igbo Amaka written by Humphrey Ihejirikah and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Nigerian man who was born in the U.S. reflects on the choices he's made especially regarding high school sweetheart, who he still loves. This short story is his pilgrimage in thought and action to get to happily ever after.
Download or read book AI 2041 written by Kai-Fu Lee and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How will AI change our world within twenty years? A pioneering technologist and acclaimed writer team up for a “dazzling” (The New York Times) look at the future that “brims with intriguing insights” (Financial Times). This edition includes a new foreword by Kai-Fu Lee. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Financial Times Long before the advent of ChatGPT, Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan understood the enormous potential of artificial intelligence to transform our daily lives. But even as the world wakes up to the power of AI, many of us still fail to grasp the big picture. Chatbots and large language models are only the beginning. In this “inspired collaboration” (The Wall Street Journal), Lee and Chen join forces to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. In ten gripping, globe-spanning short stories and accompanying commentary, their book introduces readers to an array of eye-opening settings and characters grappling with the new abundance and potential harms of AI technologies like deep learning, mixed reality, robotics, artificial general intelligence, and autonomous weapons.
Book Synopsis Olisa Amaka by : Regina Eziagulu Obakhena
Download or read book Olisa Amaka written by Regina Eziagulu Obakhena and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nightfall At Ifite-Oma And Other Stories Inspired by Igbo Folklore And History by : Amaka Chuks, Esq.
Download or read book Nightfall At Ifite-Oma And Other Stories Inspired by Igbo Folklore And History written by Amaka Chuks, Esq. and published by Amaka Chuks, Esq.. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is sure an interesting read full of adventure, thrilling suspense and melodrama. Join Adaeze and Oma’s modern-day adventure in the six-part short story series, You Stepped On My Foot, follow Oluchi and Nneka’s suspenseful investigation into mami water events in Tianna, relish the melancholic thrill in the historical fictional dramatization of one of the most popular Igbo folk songs, Ekworo Nwunye Di, learn how to avoid capture by mysterious monsters in Nightfall At Ifite-Oma, among many other interesting short stories that explore Igbo folklore and Igbo history. It should be quickly pointed out that the stories are genuinely inspired by Igbo folklore and true Igbo history. So, this is certainly not yet another Pan Africanist or Afro-Centrist literature, where Africans or Black people generally can do no wrong and have done no wrong since the beginning of time. Expect to read about invasions of African villages by other Black people in pre-colonial times because it did happen, and Igbos had their fair share of these waves of devastating invasions and tyrannical impositions from other Black people. But more importantly, be prepared to absolutely enjoy this book which takes these events and artistically craft short stories that entertain you. You will soon discover that the truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
Download or read book Ogazi Amaka written by Ositadimma Amakeze and published by Laurans Prints Limited. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNESCO's prediction on the extinction of IGBO LANGUAGE in 2025 is no joke nor mere hypothetical statement. An African proverb says, "It is only a tree that heard it will be felled and still stands there." In this novel, 'Ogazi Amaka' the author who has written voluminously in English language, in prose and poetry, delves into a full blown Igbo literature: a thriller as well as a humorous blockbuster that keeps the reader smiling, giggling and at best laughing. 'Ogazi Amaka' is capable of exciting schorlary curiosity as well as mouthwatering translation into other languages. Here, Igbo language and culture is preserved and promoted!
Book Synopsis Njepu Amaka--migration is Rewarding by : Eloka Chijioke Paul Nwolisa Okanga
Download or read book Njepu Amaka--migration is Rewarding written by Eloka Chijioke Paul Nwolisa Okanga and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Okanga (social and cultural anthropology, Catholic U. of Leuven, Belgium) explores the migration of the Igbo people of Nigeria. Drawing on research conducted in Nigeria and Belgium, he examines migration before, during, and after the colonial period; opposing ethnicities in modern Nigeria; the conditions that encourage young people to migrate to Belgium and elsewhere in Europe and the world; their experience in Belgium; and actual migration patterns. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Book Synopsis Postcolonial Literatures in Context by : Julie Mullaney
Download or read book Postcolonial Literatures in Context written by Julie Mullaney and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an introduction to key issues involved in the study of postcolonial literature including diasporas, postcolonial nationalisms, indigenous identities and politics and globalization. This book also contains a chapter on afterlives and adaptations that explores a range of wider cultural texts including film, non-fiction and art.
Download or read book Igbo-Israel written by Odi Moghalu and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legend of The Lost Tribes of Israel remained for scholars, historians, archeologists, anthropologists and Hebraists a fascinating topic for millennia. When Israel faced an imperial conquest in the hands of the Assyrian empire in 722 B.C. as earlier warned by prophets Isaiah and Hosea, the nation also went on exile and into what seemed oblivion. A people who for penalty of apostasy became a dispersed people across the globe for nearly three thousand years creating a puzzle of identity and location for so long has suddenly began to emerge from the shadows of time. The account of their journey and experiences over this period had largely remained conjectures as they assimilated amongst foreign cultures. The Igbo, sojourned in the two sides of lower Niger, one of Africas great rivers second only to the Nile and like other exiled tribes of Israel was relatively unknown to those who never had any contacts with them. The era of trans-Atlantic forced migrations and European colonization opened this connection. The exposition of a peoples beliefs, behavior, attitudes and values within religious, cultural and political context had only affirmed their origin and identity.
Author :Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi Publisher :University of Chicago Press ISBN 13 :9780226620855 Total Pages :372 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (28 download)
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.
Book Synopsis Comprehensive Igbo Language by : Elisha O. Ogbonna
Download or read book Comprehensive Igbo Language written by Elisha O. Ogbonna and published by Prinoelio Press. This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive Igbo Language provides thorough and effective ways to learn and master the skills you need for Igbo communication, reading and writing. Unlike every other Igbo language book, it contains guide to pronunciation and detailed explanation on pitch accent marking and syllable formation. Syllables are often considered the phonological "building blocks" of words. This book helps you in-depth guide on unit of pronunciation and the formation of the whole or a part of a word. It has a solid grounding in grammar basics and progressive approach to learn Igbo in the manner, people naturally acquire language. You will be introduced to the most essential structures that will help you communicate in Igbo language almost immediately, from alphabet letter to word formation, and sentence construction apply the affixes usage order. It is laid out in a simple step-wise order and advances toward words vocabulary and communication revealing how Igbo language is spoken and written. It uncovers the most common concepts that govern verbs and sentences used in everyday communication. Comprehensive Igbo Language presents a unique and easy structure to master essential, grammar, verbs and vocabulary. It contains words and names used for family, friends, people, plants, animals, foods, time, colours, days, nature, occupation and so on. It also has exercises to help you test what you’ve learned and measure your progress.
Book Synopsis The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music by : Ruth M. Stone
Download or read book The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music written by Ruth M. Stone and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores key themes in African music that have emerged in recent years-a subject usually neglected in country-by-country coverage emphasizes the contexts of musical performance-unlike studies that offer static interpretations isolated from other performing traditions presents the fresh insights and analyses of musicologists and anthropologists of diverse national origins-African, Asian, European, and American Charts the flow and influence of music. The Encyclopedia also charts the musical interchanges that followed the movement of people and ideas across the continent, including: cross-regional musical influences throughout Africa * Islam and its effect on African music * spread of guitar music * Kru mariners of Liberia * Latin American influences on African music * musical interchanges in local contexts * crossovers between popular and traditional practices. Downloadable resources included. Also includes nine maps and 96 music examples.
Book Synopsis The Correct Way to Write Igbo by : F. Chidozie Ọgbalụ
Download or read book The Correct Way to Write Igbo written by F. Chidozie Ọgbalụ and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress by : B. Nyamnjoh
Download or read book Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress written by B. Nyamnjoh and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a timely addition to debates and explorations on the epistemological relevance of African proverbs, especially with growing calls for the decolonisation of African curricula. The editors and contributors have chosen to reflect on the diverse ways of being and becoming African as a permanent work in progress by drawing inspiration from Chinua Achebe's harnessing of the effectualness of oratory, especially his use of proverbs in his works. The book recognises and celebrates the fact that Achebe's proverbial Igbo imaginations of being and becoming African are compelling because they are instructive about the lives, stories, struggles and aspirations of the rainbow of people that make up Africa as a veritable global arena of productive circulations, entanglements and compositeness of being. The contributions foray into how claims to and practices of being and becoming African are steeped in histories of mobilities and a myriad of encounters shaped by and inspiring of the competing and complementary logics of personhood and power that Africans have sought and seek to capture in their repertoires of proverbs. The task of documenting African proverbs and rendering them accessible in the form of a common hard currency with fascinating epistemological possibilities remains a challenge yearning for financial, scholarly, social and political attention. The book is an important contribution to John Mbiti's clarion call for an active and sustained interest in African proverbs.
Book Synopsis Auteuring Nollywood by : Afolayan, Adeshina
Download or read book Auteuring Nollywood written by Afolayan, Adeshina and published by University Press, Nigeria. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning from an auteur standpoint, this book interrogates extant cinematic re-presentation of African and Nigerian postcolonial realities in Nollywood. It makes a case, using Kunle Afolayan's The Figurine, for a critical space-clearing gesture around the notion of a neo-Nollywood, which transcends the formulaic cinematic re-presentation of African and Nigerian realities to embrace a visionary and philosophic rearticualtion of the role of film-making, and of Nollywood, in the Nigerian imagination. The Idea of neo-Nollywood, and a visionary director, therefore stands at the core of a cinematic production process that challenges, disturbs and stimulates perceptions of current and future African identities
Book Synopsis The Cultural and Historical Heritage of Colonialism by : Kenneth Usongo
Download or read book The Cultural and Historical Heritage of Colonialism written by Kenneth Usongo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the time since most African countries achieved independence from European colonial powers, it is unfortunate that these nations are still politically, economically, and culturally reordered by their former colonisers. This book argues that these nations often slavishly emulate Western values to the detriment of indigenous ones. It challenges the postcolony to ground itself in local experience and then nativise external values, which entails delicately sifting through both the domestic and foreign worlds to build a decent and humane society.
Book Synopsis Indigenous African Popular Music, Volume 1 by : Abiodun Salawu
Download or read book Indigenous African Popular Music, Volume 1 written by Abiodun Salawu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the nature, philosophies and genres of indigenous African popular music, focusing on how indigenous African popular music artistes are seen as prophets and philosophers, and how indigenous African popular music depicts the world. Indigenous African popular music has long been under-appreciated in communication scholarship. However, understanding the nature and philosophies of indigenous African popular music reveals an untapped diversity which only be unraveled by knowledge of the myriad cultural backgrounds from which its genres originate. Indigenous African popular musicians have become repositories of indigenous cultural traditions and cosmologies.With a particular focus on scholarship from Nigeria, Zimbabwe and South Africa, this volume explores the work of these pioneering artists and their protégés who are resiliently sustaining, recreating and popularising indigenous popular music in their respective African communities, and at the same time propagating the communal views about African philosophies and the temporal and spiritual worlds in which they exist.
Book Synopsis The Future of Christian Marriage among the Igbo vis-a-vis Childlessnes by : Augustus Chukwuma Izekwe
Download or read book The Future of Christian Marriage among the Igbo vis-a-vis Childlessnes written by Augustus Chukwuma Izekwe and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage was ordained by God for the good of spouses and for procreation. But how often does marriage turn out to bring unhappiness to partners! And how often do even happy marriages end up childless! Among the Igbo of South-eastern Nigeria, to whom offspring is the chief goal of marriage, childlessness leads often to unhappiness in marriage and not less often to the break-up of marriages or to polygamy. In this work, the author expounds the importance of marriage and its practice among the Igbo. He explains the importance of children in Igbo understanding of marriage and identifies childlessness as the key factor which could endanger (and sometimes do endanger) the Igbo acceptance of the Catholic doctrine of the indissolubility of marriage. Using the relevant clauses of the Code of Canon Law, the author explains in detail the Catholic understanding of marriage and the goals of the catholic doctrine on marriage. He writes of the possibility of marriage impediments due to impotence and sterility (that lead to childlessness) and recommends not only a thorough pre-marriage preparation but also a continual formation of marriage couples as efforts that could check the increasing rate of divorce and polygamy due to childlessness. But the author knows that childlessness can still occur despite all precautions. He therefore recommends adoption (instead of polygamy) as the ultimate panacea to childlessness in marriage. The author condemns in unmistakable terms the mentality among the Igbo which blames and traumatizes the woman in cases of childlessness.
