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African Cultural Values

Igbo Political Leadership in Colonial Nigeria, 1900–1996

By: Raphael Chijoke Njoku

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African Cultural Values

Igbo Political Leadership in Colonial Nigeria, 1900–1996

By: Raphael Chijoke Njoku

Although numerous studies have been made of the Western educated political elite of colonial Nigeria in particular, and of Africa in general, very few have approached the study from a perspective that analyzes the impacts of indigenous institutions on the lives, values, and ideas of these individuals. This book is about the diachronic impact of indigenous and Western agencies in the upbringing, socialization, and careers of the colonial Igbo political elite of southeastern Nigeria. The thesis argues that the new elite manifests the continuity of traditions and culture and therefore their leadership values and the impact they brought on African society cannot be fully understood without looking closely at their lived experiences in those indigenous institutions where African life coheres. The key has been to explore this question at the level of biography, set in the context of a carefully reconstructed social history of the particular local communities surrounding the elite figures. It starts from an understanding of their family and village life, and moves forward striving to balance the familiar account of these individuals in public life, with an account of the ongoing influences from family, kinship, age grades, marriage and gender roles, secret societies, the church, local leaders and others. The result is not only a model of a new approach to African elite history, but also an argument about how to understand these emergent leaders and their peers as individuals who shared with their fellow Africans a dynamic and complex set of values that evolved over the six decades of colonialism.

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1135528209

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9781135528201

West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals

History, Memory, and Transnationalism

By: Raphael Chijioke Njoku

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West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals

History, Memory, and Transnationalism

By: Raphael Chijioke Njoku

A revisionist account of African masquerade carnivals in transnational context that offers readers a unique perspective on the connecting threads between African cultural trends and African American cultural artifacts

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Rochester Studies in African H

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1580469841

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9781580469845

African Cultural Values

Igbo Political Leadership in Colonial Nigeria, 1900–1996

By: Raphael Chijoke Njoku

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Igbo Political Leadership in Colonial Nigeria, 1900–1996

By: Raphael Chijoke Njoku

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1135528276

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9781135528270

United States and Africa Relations, 1400s to the Present

By: Toyin Falola,Raphael Chijioke Njoku

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United States and Africa Relations, 1400s to the Present

By: Toyin Falola,Raphael Chijioke Njoku

A comprehensive history of the relationship between Africa and the United States Toyin Falola and Raphael Njoku reexamine the history of the relationship between Africa and the United States from the dawn of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the present. Their broad, interdisciplinary book follows the relationship's evolution, tracking African American emancipation, the rise of African diasporas in the Americas, the Back-to-Africa movement, the founding of Sierra Leone and Liberia, the presence of American missionaries in Africa, the development of blues and jazz music, the presidency of Barack Obama, and more.

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408

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Yale University Press

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030023483X

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9780300234831

Queen Elizabeth II and the Africans

Narrating Decolonization, Postwar Commonwealth, and Africa’s Development, 1947 – 2022

By: Raphael Chijioke Njoku

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Queen Elizabeth II and the Africans

Narrating Decolonization, Postwar Commonwealth, and Africa’s Development, 1947 – 2022

By: Raphael Chijioke Njoku

The road to Queen Elizabeth II’s implementation of African reforms was rough, especially in the first two decades following her ascension to the throne. In this book, Raphael Chijioke Njoku examines Queen Elizabeth II’s role in the African decolonization trajectories and the postcolonial state’s quest for genuine political and economic liberation since 1947. By locating Elizabeth at the center of Anglophone Africa’s independence agitations, the account harnesses the African interests to tease out the monarch’s dilemma of complying with Whitehall’s decolonization schemes while building an inclusive and unified Commonwealth in which Africans could play a vital role. Njoku argues that to gratify British lawmakers in her complex and marginal place within the British parliamentary system of conservative versus reformist, Elizabeth’s contribution fell short of African nationalists’ expectations on account of her silence and inaction during the African decolonization raptures. Yet ultimately, the author concludes, she helped build an inclusive and unified organization in which Africans could assert and appropriate political and economic autarky.

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Leuven University Press

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9462704341

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9789462704343

Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa

By: Chima J. Korieh,Raphael Chijioke Njoku

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Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa

By: Chima J. Korieh,Raphael Chijioke Njoku

Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa aims to explore the ways Christianity and colonialism acted as hegemonic or counter hegemonic forces in the making of African societies. As Western interventionist forces, Christianity and colonialism were crucial in establishing and maintaining political, cultural, and economic domination. Indeed, both elements of Africa’s encounter with the West played pivotal roles in shaping African societies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume uses a wide range of perspectives to address the intersection between missions, evangelism, and colonial expansion across Africa. The contributors address several issues, including missionary collaboration with the colonizing effort of European powers; disagreements between missionaries and colonizing agents; the ways in which missionaries and colonial officials used language, imagery, and European epistemology to legitimize relations of inequality with Africans; and the ways in which both groups collaborated to transform African societies. Thus, Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa transcends the narrow boundaries that often separate the role of these two elements of European encounter to argue that missionary endeavours and official colonial actions could all be conceptualized as hegemonic institutions, in which both pursued the same civilizing mission, even if they adopted different strategies in their encounter with African societies.

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Routledge

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1135915334

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9781135915339

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African Cultural Values

African Cultural Values

West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals

West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals

African Cultural Values

African Cultural Values

United States and Africa Relations, 1400s to the Present

United States and Africa Relations, 1400s to the Present

Queen Elizabeth II and the Africans

Queen Elizabeth II and the Africans

Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa

Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa

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