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 Leiden University catalogue |
| Title: | Emergent themes and methods in African studies: essays in honor of Adiele E. Afigbo |
| Editors: | Afigbo, Adiele Eberechukwu Falola, Toyin Paddock, Adam |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Pages: | 679 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Trenton, NJ |
| Publisher: | Africa World Press |
| ISBN: | 1592216773; 9781592216772 |
| Geographic terms: | Africa Nigeria |
| Subjects: | historiography history Igbo African studies festschrifts (form) |
| About person: | Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo (1937-2009) |
| Abstract: | This volume honours Nigeria's pre-eminent historian Adiele Afigbo (1937-2009), who contributed to African historiography over the course of forty years. Reflections on Afigbo and the frontiers of knowledge by T. Falola and A. Paddock are followed by five parts: A: Adiele E. Afigbo: historiography and career (six chapters); B: Reflections in historiography (eight chapters); C: Studies in Igbo history (seven chapters); D: Nigeria in transition (six chapters on Kalabari-Ijo time consciousness, nationalists in the context of decolonization, the boxer Hogan Bassey, deregulation and privatization since the 1980s, the Niger delta and the oil revolution); and E: Africa reconfigured (eight chapters on cultural identity change and islamization in North Cameroon, women in early 20th century Moghamo history (Cameroon), politics and propaganda in Ngugi's cave allegory, African perspectives on healing and nature conservation, towards the restoration of Africa, poverty alleviation, the ethics of Africa's governance, and sacred and popular music and dance in African Pentecostalism). [ASC Leiden abstract] |
