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Title: | The Igbo intellectual tradition: creative conflict in African and African diasporic thought |
Editor: | Chuku, Gloria |
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) Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904-1996) Mazi Mbonu Ojike (1914-1956) Flora Nwapa (1931-1993) Kenneth Onwuka Dike (1917-1983) Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo (1937-2009) Pius Nwabufo C. Okigbo (1924-2000) Benjamin Obi Nwabueze Helen Chukwuma |
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] |