Go to AfricaBib home

Go to AfricaBib home AfricaBib Go to database home

bibliographic database
Line
Previous page New search

The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here

Book Book Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:The Igbo intellectual tradition: creative conflict in African and African diasporic thought
Editor:Chuku, GloriaISNI
Year:2013
Pages:342
Language:English
City of publisher:New York
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137311283; 1137311290; 9781137311290
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:intellectuals
Igbo
African studies
gender studies
historiography
diasporas
About persons:Olaudah Equiano (ca. 1745-1797)ISNI
Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904-1996)ISNI
Mazi Mbonu Ojike (1914-1956)ISNI
Flora Nwapa (1931-1993)ISNI
Kenneth Onwuka Dike (1917-1983)ISNI
Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo (1937-2009)ISNI
Pius Nwabufo C. Okigbo (1924-2000)ISNI
Benjamin Obi NwabuezeISNI
Helen ChukwumaISNI
Abstract:This volume explores the life and work of eleven intellectuals of Igbo ethnicity and their contribution to African scholarship over a timeframe of three centuries. It especially examines how their education in both European and African contexts has influenced their thought. Contributions: Introduction (Gloria Chuku); Olaudah Equiano and the foundation of Igbo intellectual tradition (Gloria Chuku); Nnamdi Azikiwe: the triumph of knowledge (John Oriji); Mbonu Ojike: an African nationalist and pan-Africanist (Gloria Chuku); Bishop Anthony Nwedo of Umuahia: faith, vision and mission (Jude C. Aguwa); Kenneth Onwuka Dike: the father of modern African historiography (Gloria Chuku); Adiele Afigbo and the development of Igbo and Nigerian historical studies (Gloria Chuku); Pius Nwabufo Okigbo: a pragmatic economist and an intellectual giant (Gloria Chuku); Ben O. Nwabueze and African intellectual tradition (Philip C. Aka); Chinua Achebe and the development of Igbo/African studies (Raphael Chijioke Njoku); ''Nwanyibuife'' Flora Nwapa, Igbo culture and women's studies (Gloria Chuku); Helen Chukwuma: the inimitable advocate for African women's empowerment (Christine Ohale). [ASC Leiden abstract]
Views