Author: Otu Abam UbiPublisher:
ISBN: 9789780648060
Category : Cross River Region (Cameroon and Nigeria)
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The Yakurr of the Middle Cross River Region, 1600-1950
Author: Otu Abam UbiPublisher:
ISBN: 9789780648060
Category : Cross River Region (Cameroon and Nigeria)
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
THE YAKURR OF THE MIDDLE CROSS RIVER REGION (NIGERIA) - INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Author: Otu Abam UbiPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359550444
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
This work is a reconstruction of the Pre?colonial, colonial and post-colonial history of the Yakurr of South Eastern Nigeria. It is primarily, based on Yakurr Oral Sources. The Study provides a historical foundation hence its title. It is hoped that future historians shall build upon that foundation. However, the work examines the collapse of the Wukari Empire (Jukun/Kororofa) and the development of the Atlantic Slave trade as the principal causal factors of the migrations of the various peoples who now occupy the middle and upper Cross River Regions. Such people include the Yalla, Ukelle (upper Cross River), Boki, Agbo, Bahumono, Mbembe and Yakurr (middle Cross River) region.
Double Descent and Gender Issues in the Cross River Region of Southeastern Nigeria
Author: Simon OttenbergPublisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1638672644
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Double Descent and Gender Issues in the Cross River Region of Southeastern Nigeria By: Simon Ottenberg Double Descent and Gender Issues in the Cross River Region of Southeastern Nigeria is a comprehensive study of an unusual form of human descent among a number of societies in Nigeria’s Cross River Region. The author provides an in-depth history and analysis of the variations of regional groups and raises the thought-provoking question of how matrilineal and patrilineal relationships affect a society’s gender relations.
The Sacred Language of the Abakuá
Author: Lydia CabreraPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496829476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
In 1988, Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991) published La lengua sagrada de los Ñáñigos, an Abakuá phrasebook that is to this day the largest work available on any African diaspora community in the Americas. In the early 1800s in Cuba, enslaved Africans from the Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon created Abakuá societies for protection and mutual aid. Abakuá rites reenact mythic legends of the institution’s history in Africa, using dance, chants, drumming, symbolic writing, herbs, domestic animals, and masked performers to represent African ancestors. Criminalized and scorned in the colonial era, Abakuá members were at the same time contributing to the creation of a unique Cuban culture, including rumba music, now considered a national treasure. Translated for the first time into English, Cabrera’s lexicon documents phrases vital to the creation of a specific African-derived identity in Cuba and presents the first “insider’s” view of this African heritage. This text presents thoroughly researched commentaries that link hundreds of entries to the context of mythic rites, skilled ritual performance, and the influence of Abakuá in Cuban society and popular music. Generously illustrated with photographs and drawings, the volume includes a new introduction to Cabrera’s writing as well as appendices that situate this important work in Cuba’s history. With the help of living Abakuá specialists in Cuba and the US, Ivor L. Miller and P. González Gómes-Cásseres have translated Cabrera’s Spanish into English for the first time while keeping her meanings and cultivated style intact, opening this seminal work to new audiences and propelling its legacy in African diaspora studies.
The Izon of the Niger Delta
Author: Ebiegberi Joe AlagoaPublisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9788195423
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
The Izon of the Niger Delta is a global history of the Izon, Ijo, or Ijaw people from their homelands in the Niger Delta, through Nigeria, the West and Central African coastlands, and in the Africa diaspora into Europe, the America's and the Caribbean. It is a preliminary study which raises questions and opens ground for further research. The book provides chapters that take an overview of issues on the environment of the Niger Delta, an analysis of the Ijo population, the language, culture, resources, history and linkage to the rest of Nigeria and the world. In effect these chapters provide a synopsis of the Ijo in the past and their situation in the present.
In Focus
Author: Vincent IkoiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ugep (Nigeria)
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
African Arts
Author: Eastern Nigeria
Author: Barry FloydPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349006661
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A Companion to Modern African Art
Author: Gitti SalamiPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444338374
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Offering a wealth of perspectives on African modern and Modernist art from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, this new Companion features essays by African, European, and North American authors who assess the work of individual artists as well as exploring broader themes such as discoveries of new technologies and globalization. A pioneering continent-based assessment of modern art and modernity across Africa Includes original and previously unpublished fieldwork-based material Features new and complex theoretical arguments about the nature of modernity and Modernism Addresses a widely acknowledged gap in the literature on African Art
An Index of Nigerian Languages
Author: David Henry CrozierPublisher: Summer Institute of Linguistics, Academic Publications
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description