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From What We Should Do to Who We Should Be

Author : Benedict Chidi Nwachukwu-Udaku
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1463414129
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book From What We Should Do to Who We Should Be written by Benedict Chidi Nwachukwu-Udaku and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIV/AIDS constitutes a global problem. A good number of scholars from different nationalities, multiple rationalities, religious sensibilities, theological intelligibilities and ethical, cultural, and ecclesiastical backgrounds have affirmed that this worldwide quagmire constitutes a global health problem and social malady which does not have a well-defined geographically limited spread. The global nature of HIV/AIDS as seen in the statistics does not however undermine the fact that the effects of this sickness are not felt proportionally from one nation to another. This book proposes to situate the local as a veritable site of empowerment for communities dealing with HIV/AIDS, as it is the case with the African continent. The author of this book, over and above the way the problem of HIV/AIDS has been constructed, projected, and reviewed, decided to situate this epidemic of the 20th Century within the socio-cultural and political context of the Nigerian nation with particular reference to the Igbo people. The task of contextualizing this problem reveal the identity of the author as an Igbo, and as a theologian, who engages the indigenous ethical principles, unsophisticated traditional wisdom, cultural and religious values of his people in offering solutions that resonate the cultural identity of his people in dialogue with modern and post-modern constructs.

Ije Ego

Author : S.A. Abakwue
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1456889508
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book Ije Ego written by S.A. Abakwue and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Akwụkwọ nkea bu maka ego. Edere m ya ka iwee gụa ya, were kwa ndumọdu di nime ya lụa ọlu. Ọchichọm bu ka inweta aku na uba ri nne. Ọbụrụ na ọbughi otua, agaghi m etufu ogem nihi na ogem bu ihe di oke ọnụ ahia. Achọtara m, na oge mụ na gi di nkpumkpu n'elu ụwa. Oge nke na-agafe adighi aloghachi; nihi na ọpughi ilọghachi. Ọbụ ihe kwesiri ekwesi ka iwere ogea di ntakiri lụa ọlụ diri gi bu ọlụ buru ibu, na ọlụ di itu-n'anya. Ọbụrụ na ipụghi ime otua, oge ahu bu nani ihe efu. Ọbughi nzube m ka idọgbue onwe gi n'ọlụ n'efu. Ihe mwute ka ọbu na ọtụtụ mmadu bu ndi-oru n'ebe aku na ụba di. Tule okwua n'obi gi kwa ụbọchi, tumadu, n'ututu, mgbe itetara n'ụra. Tule ya n'oge ina-eje ilụrụ ndi-ọzọ ọlụ.

The Languages of West Africa ...

Author : Frederick William Hugh Migeod
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Languages of West Africa ... written by Frederick William Hugh Migeod and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Africana Human Condition and Global Dimensions

Author : New York African Studies Association. Conference
Publisher : Global Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781586842208
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Africana Human Condition and Global Dimensions written by New York African Studies Association. Conference and published by Global Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Healing Insanity

Author : Patrick E. Iroegbu
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450096271
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Healing Insanity written by Patrick E. Iroegbu and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healing Insanity: A Study of Igbo Medicine in Contemporary Nigeria is an original and in-depth study on endogenous medical system in an African society. It is craftily written and provides solid insight, through case studies and theory, into how insanity affects patients and the society. Particularly, it explores various collective representations and strategies regarding insanity and healing as it examines the healing institutions, healers, and ritual cults. The central question is, given the patterns of healing, how do the Igbo shape the incidence and symptoms of insanity, define its aetiology, and provide healers with culture-specific resources and skills to address this illness? The focus became increasingly centred on bodily semantics and endogenous knowledge systems and practices. Dr. Patrick Iroegbu's work is a very valuable and rare study and has appeared at a desirable time. It is, for an African society, a comprehensive study of the many ways Igbo people, in their practical, routinelike attitudes and body-centred experiences, as well as in their more reflective aetiologic knowledge and healing institutions, relate to the phenomenon of insanity, or ara, in the cultural parlance. As the first of its kind, reminiscent of, and assured by, the various remarks of Igbo scholars and leaders at various meetings and discourses, the task this work has set out to accomplish is a very brave one. The author's account of his fieldwork experiences and adopted techniques illustrates his initiation, revealing him as a genuine ethnographer who is a "friend of people and at ease with his field." With both the far-seeing and inspiring analysis of Igbo medicine, life, and culture accounted for in the work, the book stands out for ethnographers, teachers, students, leaders, policymakers, and the general public. This is a book that deserves to be read as it shapes the critical path toward understanding ways of healing insanity in a culture-specific context, crosscutting perspectives for a relationship between indigenous healing and the biomedical sphere. Prof. René Devisch (Africa Research Centre, University of Leuven) This book is written with a clear purpose for everyone to read to understand and heal insanity and indeed provides a thick piece of cultural philosophy and vernacular of Igbo medicine in hopes of putting cultural wisdom in pursuit of integral health care development. Prof. Pantaleon Iroegbu (Professor of Philosophy, Major-Seminary, Ekpoma, January 2006) To read this book, as I did, is to get the benefit of Dr. Patrick Iroegbu's ethnographic insight for an archetypical African healing system in Igboland. It offers a fascinating theory of symbolic release that speaks of African symbolic action and knowledge system. Dr. Paul Komba, Esq. (University of Cambridge)

Culture, Precepts, and Social Change in Southeastern Nigeria

Author : Apollos O. Nwauwa
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498589693
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Culture, Precepts, and Social Change in Southeastern Nigeria written by Apollos O. Nwauwa and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a unique insight into understanding the Igbo social, economic, and political world through comprehensive analyses of indigenous and foreign religious practices, issues surrounding women, literature, language, sexism in musical lyrics, films, and community development and government. It also explores thought-provoking cultural practices relating to marriage and divorce, reincarnation, naming, and masquerade dance. The themes covered in the book help readers appreciate the often-neglected multifaceted local and external forces that continue to shape the Igbo experience in southeastern Nigeria.

Male Daughters, Female Husbands

Author : Professor Ifi Amadiume
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1783603348
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Male Daughters, Female Husbands written by Professor Ifi Amadiume and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1987, more than a decade before the dawn of queer theory, Ifi Amadiume wrote Male Daughters, Female Husbands, to critical acclaim. This compelling and highly original book frees the subject position of 'husband' from its affiliation with men, and goes on to do the same for other masculine attributes, dislocating sex, gender and sexual orientation. Boldly arguing that the notion of gender, as constructed in Western feminist discourse, did not exist in Africa before the colonial imposition of a dichotomous understanding of sexual difference, Male Daughters, Female Husbands examines the structures in African society that enabled people to achieve power, showing that roles were not rigidly masculinized nor feminized. At a time when gender and queer theory are viewed by some as being stuck in an identity-politics rut, this outstanding study not only warns against the danger of projecting a very specific, Western notion of difference onto other cultures, but calls us to question the very concept of gender itself.

Convergence: English and Nigerian Languages

Author : Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9785416496
Total Pages : 922 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (854 download)

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Book Synopsis Convergence: English and Nigerian Languages by : Ozo-mekuri Ndimele

Download or read book Convergence: English and Nigerian Languages written by Ozo-mekuri Ndimele and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume, which is the 5th in the Nigerian Linguists Festschrift Series, is devoted to Professor Munzali A. Jibril, a celebrated icon in university administration, and an erudite Professor of English Linguistics. The title of this special edition was specifically chosen to crown Professor Jibril s academic prowess in both English and indigenous Nigerian languages, and to mark and laud his official departure from active university lectureship. 72 assessed papers are included from the many submitted. Papers cover the main theme of the volume, i.e. the interaction between English and indigenous Nigerian languages, and there are a number of papers on other secular areas of linguistics such as: language and history, language planning and policy, language documentation, language engineering, lexicography, translation, gender studies, language acquisition, language teaching and learning, pragmatics, discourse and conversational analysis, and literature in English and African languages. There is also a rich section devoted to the majwor traditional fields of linguistics - phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.

Changing Genders in Intercultural Perspectives

Author : Barbara Saunders
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789058672018
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Changing Genders in Intercultural Perspectives written by Barbara Saunders and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the essays in this book develop contextual and strategic analyses of the way sex-gender constellations can be configured as political identities, as a resource, or in response to unforeseen contingencies.

UZO UBA NA OGANIRU

Author : S.A. Abakwue
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479732524
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book UZO UBA NA OGANIRU written by S.A. Abakwue and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Path to Progress, was originally written in the African language, Igbo. Now, it is translated into the global language, English. A look at the book’s contents reveals a literary fortress in pure contents...the very rays of the financial spirits ... the virile bulk of ideas, drawn from the eternal oceans of financial wealth. For example, the seven phenomenal steps, and even the eight tremendous blessings, are among the liberating forces that would fight to free the shackled from financial bondage. The eight forms of wealth are so woven through the pages of the book’s fifteen chapters ... among them: desire, talent, hope, learning, encouragement, determination, work, innate experience, etc. These citadels of wisdom are not only the forces of enrichment, the mirrors of pure paths to clear wealth, but even the very clouds of the coming rain of eternal progress. Show more Show less

Overcoming Women's Subordination in the Igbo African Culture and in the Catholic Church

Author : Rose N. Uchem
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1581121334
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Overcoming Women's Subordination in the Igbo African Culture and in the Catholic Church written by Rose N. Uchem and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When African scholars lament over the near destruction of African cultures, they do not reflect the reality of African women's historical traditions of empowerment and inclusion in pre-colonial/pre-Christian African societies, which were also lost in the same process of Western Christian cultural imperialism. Similarly, most male Church theologians writing or speaking about inculturation do not address the deeper cultural issues, which impact heavily on African women. ..... [from back cover]

The Mysterious Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveaux

Author : Ina J. Fandrich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135872910
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book The Mysterious Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveaux written by Ina J. Fandrich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-04-21 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates the emergence of powerful female leadership in New Orleans' Voodoo tradition. It provides a careful examination of the cultural, historical, economic, demographic and socio-political factors that contributed both to the feminization of this religious culture and its strong female leaders.

The Politics of Cultural Performance

Author : David J. Parkin
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571819253
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Cultural Performance written by David J. Parkin and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For beginning students and lay readers, introduces the basics of psychoanalytic and behaviorist psychology by examining the systems of eight major practitioners and theorists. Highlights how the psychodynamic and behavioristic schools complement each other in psychological paradigms, experimental perspectives, and mental structures. The last, posthumously published, book by Keehn (psychology, York University, Canada). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Oyibos: Memoirs of Culture Shock

Author : Gus Udo
Publisher : Gus Udo
ISBN 13 : 0984045309
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Oyibos: Memoirs of Culture Shock written by Gus Udo and published by Gus Udo. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid memoir offers a fascinating glimpse into the modern-day life of a West African emigrant who embarks on an extraordinary half-century journey to England and America. An intelligent, poignant, and ultimately inspiring account of how unforeseen circumstances can change lives dramatically.

The Future of Christian Marriage among the Igbo vis-a-vis Childlessnes

Author : Augustus Chukwuma Izekwe
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3832540377
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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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.

Olanma: The Paragon of Virtue

Author :
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434976807
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (349 download)

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The Value of Human Dignity. A Socio-cultural Approach to Value Crisis among Igbo People of Nigeria

Author : Chinedu Paul Ezenwa
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3832551999
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book The Value of Human Dignity. A Socio-cultural Approach to Value Crisis among Igbo People of Nigeria written by Chinedu Paul Ezenwa and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.