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Book Synopsis The Igbo Nation and the Nigerian State by : Arthur Agwuncha Nwankwo
Download or read book The Igbo Nation and the Nigerian State written by Arthur Agwuncha Nwankwo and published by Fourth Dimension Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Identity, Consciousness and Affirmation by : Arthur Agwuncha Nwankwo
Download or read book Identity, Consciousness and Affirmation written by Arthur Agwuncha Nwankwo and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Survey of the Igbo Nation by : G. E. K. Ofomata
Download or read book A Survey of the Igbo Nation written by G. E. K. Ofomata and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Challenging the State in Africa by : Godwin Onuoha
Download or read book Challenging the State in Africa written by Godwin Onuoha and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2011 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the 'Igbo Question' and emergent forms of Igbo 'self-determination' in contemporary Nigeria. It does this within the context of contested citizenship, ethnic identity politics and the unresolved crisis of state ownership and legitimacy, which all feeds into the 'National Question' in the Nigerian public space. The thesis proceeds from a theoretical standpoint that places the 'Igbo Question' within the framework of the 'tri-polar' power struggle and competition among the three major ethnic groups in Nigeria. Based on a prior idea of statehood which is rooted in the aborted secessionist attempts of the Igbo ethnic group from the Nigerian state between 1967 and 1970, and drawing on the case of an Igbo ethno-nationalist separatist movement in Nigeria, known as the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), this thesis focuses on the use of 'territory' and 'space' as components of the 'repertoires of contention' in the quest for political change, sovereignty and self-determination. This provides the context in which 'claims' and 'counter-claims' of security, territoriality and sovereignty are enacted. While the thesis draws substantially on various forms of group and sub-national rights which have been identified and studied in international law, political philosophy and social science literature generally, it transcends these debates, but focuses more on the actual processes of appropriating, interpreting and applying these rights and laws against the state in specific contexts. The analysis of the 'Igbo Question' draws on issues and perspectives surrounding the salience, construction, mobilization and politicization of ethnic identity, and the dynamics of its deployment and use in national politics, coupled with the diverse struggles, contentions and conflicts inherent in it. The research provides an innovative and empirically grounded insight into the processes of 'juridification' of self-determination rights for groups within the nationstate in Africa; the dynamics, constraints and possibilities inherent in the mobilization of these rights and laws; the emancipatory potentials or transformative ends of these rights and laws; and the role of violence in nation-building processes in Africa.
Book Synopsis The Tears of a Nation and People by : Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo
Download or read book The Tears of a Nation and People written by Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Igbo and Their Niger Delta Neighbors by : Nnamdi J. O. Ijeaku
Download or read book The Igbo and Their Niger Delta Neighbors written by Nnamdi J. O. Ijeaku and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about Nigeria's oil and gas-rich Niger Delta region: --how its peoples: the Igbo, Ijaw, Ibibio, Efik, Ogoni, Annang, etc evolved over the years; with the Igbo, as the main ingredient in the evolution process --how ethnic and regional rivalry, occasioned by petty jealousies and envy threatened their very existence in1966-1969, and led to Biafra --how greed and the gross abuse of state power by Northern Nigeria-controlled military dictatorship in 1966-1999 turned the once prosperous region into a living nightmare. The peoples are emasculated, communities/villages sacked, perceived freedom fighters persecuted and killed, including the writer/environmentalist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was hanged in 1995. This book reminds Nigeria and the world of Biafra, and calls for fundamental changes in respect of the Niger Delta, to avoid the mistakes that led to Biafran secession in 1967. It is also a Unity call to the East.
Book Synopsis Constructions of Belonging by : Axel Harneit-Sievers
Download or read book Constructions of Belonging written by Axel Harneit-Sievers and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2006 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applies new approaches to the study of a small, densely populated region of West Africa, integrating them into a regional history that analyzes interactions between localities and the modern state.
Book Synopsis The Igbo and the Tradition of Politics by : U. D. Anyanwu
Download or read book The Igbo and the Tradition of Politics written by U. D. Anyanwu and published by Fourth Dimension Publishing Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published for the Centre for Igbo Studies at Abia State University, this study is the first book from the Centre. Aspects of the tradition of politics among the Igbo are examined, including religion, age, economy, history, leadership, structures, institutions, values, sex and gender. The twenty-six papers published here were presented at the First Annual Conference of the Centre, and are arranged in five parts: Theoretical Perspectives covering the meaning, content, style, purpose and values of Igbo political tradition; Political Systems focussing on case studies; Cultural Perspectives including Onomastics, patterns of religious influence, celebration of tradition of politics in Chinua Achebe's novels, gender, traditional communication and the oratorical co-efficient; Economic Perspectives; and the Contemporary Situation.
Book Synopsis Igbo Political Culture by : Elechukwu Nnadibuagha Njaka
Download or read book Igbo Political Culture written by Elechukwu Nnadibuagha Njaka and published by Evanston : Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Killing the Golden Geese: Wars Against Igbo by : Ositadimma Ogbonna
Download or read book Killing the Golden Geese: Wars Against Igbo written by Ositadimma Ogbonna and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the ethnic wars and marginalization of the Igbos of Nigeria and the unparalleled abandonment of the Igbo language and culture by the Igbo people themselves. Ositadimma Ogbonna was born in Ugwuta Ameshi (Oguta) Nigeria. He was educated at the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu, Nigeria and at the North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. He is member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, a CPA and holds a Masters degree in Information Sciences. He served as chief accountant with the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) and Controller of Audit Nigerian Industrial Development Bank (NIDB) now Bank of Industry. He is the president Imo State Association of North Carolina, the Assistant Financial Secretary Ohaneze Ndigbo of North Carolina and former chairman, Finance Committee of Igbo Catholic Community Raleigh, He is a knight of Columbus and lives in the serene town of Cary within the Research Triangle Park of North Carolina.
Book Synopsis Things Fall Apart by : Chinua Achebe
Download or read book Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.
Book Synopsis Keep Igbo Off Yorubaland by : Adeyinka Shoyemi
Download or read book Keep Igbo Off Yorubaland written by Adeyinka Shoyemi and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yorubaland loses its culture and identity by allowing unregulated migration of people from Igboland to Yorubaland. The wave of 5 million people yearly comes from Igboland into Yorubaland. That definitely changes Yorubaland for the worse. Allowing the mass migration of the Igbo to Yorubaland in the name of One-Nigeria is shameful. It changes the fabric of Yoruba society, and unless we act very quickly to stop that, Yorubaland will never be great again. To allow millions of people into Yorubaland without regulation is very, very sad. We are losing our culture and identity. The unregulated movement of the Igbo in Yorubaland began over four decades ago when Aguiyi Ironsi suspended the regional government in 1966 and imposed the unitary system in the country. The Yoruba leadership that preceded us did a terrible job in terms of the control of the migration of people to Yorubaland. The Igbo in Yorubaland has not been hospitable. They are sticking to a fraudulent unitary system that takes money from Yorubaland and shared it with the Igbo and the Hausa and Fulani in a bid to keep the Yoruba nation and her people poor and miserable. We are cracking down on the fraudulent unitary system because the parasitic Igbo and the Hausa and Fulani have failed to treat the Yoruba nation fairly in terms of income distribution. For instance, the Nigerian federal government derives 90 percent of its revenues from seven major sources: the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC); the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS); the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS); the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA); the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN); the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA); and the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG). The Yoruba nation contributes 20% of the revenue of the NNPC; 90% of the revenue of the NCS; 80% of the revenue of the FIRS; 90% of the revenue of the NPA; 60% of the revenue of the CBN; 95% of the revenue of NIMASA; and an insignificant contribution to the revenue of NLNG. From all the levies paid to the Federal Government of Nigeria as revenue, the Yoruba nation pays 49% of the total revenue accruing to the Federal Government every month but receives about 8% of the monthly allocation from the Federal Government. The North, an area that contributes less than 5% of total federal government revenues, receives over 55% of the federal government's shared monthly allocation. It is likewise the same scenario with the Igbo nation. The Igbo nation contributes only 1.5% of all the levies paid to the Federal Government as revenue every month, but receives about 5% of the monthly allocation from the Federal Government. That is why the Igbo, in cooperation with the Hausa and the Fulani, refuses to accept an outright dissolution of Nigeria or a return to the regional government. The Igbo as well as the Hausa and Fulani are parasites living off the wealth and resources of the Yoruba people. But the Igbo is the largest beneficiary of the unitary presidential system in Nigeria. That is why they can never support the outright dissolution of Nigeria or a return to the regional system. Their arrogant call for Biafra that must include the Edo, Urhobo, Ijaw, Ogoni, Efik, Ibibio and other non-Igbo speaking people is a gimmick to keep Nigeria as one indivisible country. The Igbo knows that non-Igbo speaking people are not particularly interested in Biafra, but the Niger Delta Republic, hence their repulsive slogan of Biafra or death is deliberate plot for the Igbo to remain as a part of Nigeria under the fraudulent unitary system in order for them to continue to use the Yoruba's resources, including our ports, waterways and coming to live in Yorubaland unregulated without paying the appropriate economic rent.
Book Synopsis Trends in Migrant Political Organizations in Nigeria by : Eghosa E. Osaghae
Download or read book Trends in Migrant Political Organizations in Nigeria written by Eghosa E. Osaghae and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nigeria, a Country Study by : Carlyn Dawn Anderson
Download or read book Nigeria, a Country Study written by Carlyn Dawn Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Nigeria by : Toyin Falola
Download or read book A History of Nigeria written by Toyin Falola and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-24 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and the world's eighth largest oil producer, but its success has been undermined in recent decades by ethnic and religious conflict, political instability, rampant official corruption and an ailing economy. Toyin Falola, a leading historian intimately acquainted with the region, and Matthew Heaton, who has worked extensively on African science and culture, combine their expertise to explain the context to Nigeria's recent troubles through an exploration of its pre-colonial and colonial past, and its journey from independence to statehood. By examining key themes such as colonialism, religion, slavery, nationalism and the economy, the authors show how Nigeria's history has been swayed by the vicissitudes of the world around it, and how Nigerians have adapted to meet these challenges. This book offers a unique portrayal of a resilient people living in a country with immense, but unrealized, potential.
Book Synopsis Nigeria at Fifty by : Ebenezer Obadare
Download or read book Nigeria at Fifty written by Ebenezer Obadare and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigeria, Africa’s most populous and biggest democracy, celebrates her fiftieth year as an independent nation in October 2010. As the cliché states, ‘As Nigeria goes, so goes Africa’. This book frames the socio-historical and political trajectory of Nigeria while examining the many dimensions of the critical choices that she has made as an independent nation. How does the social composition of interest and power illuminate the actualities and narratives of the Nigerian crisis? How have the choices made by Nigerian leaders structured, and/or have been structured by, the character of the Nigerian state and state-society relations? In what ways is Nigeria’s mono-product, debt-ridden, dependent economy fed by ‘the politics of plunder’? And what are the implications of these questions for the structural relationships of production, reproduction and consumption? This book confronts these questions by making state-centric approaches to understanding African countries speak to relevant social theories that pluralize and complicate our understanding of the specific challenges of a prototypical postcolonial state. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.
Book Synopsis Understanding Modern Nigeria by : Toyin Falola
Download or read book Understanding Modern Nigeria written by Toyin Falola and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the politics and society of post-colonial Nigeria, highlighting the key themes of ethnicity, democracy, and development.
