Igbo in the Atlantic world : African origins and diasporic destinations / edited by Toyin Falola and Raphael Chijioke Njoku.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Falola, Toyin, editor.

Njoku, Raphael Chijioke, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Igbo (African people)--Social life and customs.

Igbo (African people).

Igbo (African people)--Ethnic identity.

Igbo diaspora.

Igbo (African people)--United States.

Igbo (African people)--West Indies.

United States.

West Indies.

Physical Description:

viii, 356 pages ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]

Contents:

Introduction / Raphael Chijioke Njoku and Toyin Falola

The kingless people : the speech act as shield and sword / Hannah Chukwu

Igbo goddesses and the priests and male priestesses who serve them / Nwando Achebe

Gender relations in nineteenth and early twentieth century Igbo society / Gloria Chuku

The Aro and the trade of the Bight / A. E. Afigbo

The trans-Atlantic slave trade from the Bight of Biafra : an overview / Kenneth Morgan

The Igbo and African backgrounds of the slave cargo of the Henrietta Maria / John Thornton

'A great many boys and girls' : Igbo children in the British slave trade, 1700-1808 / Audra A. Diptee

Becoming African : Igbo slaves and social reordering in nineteenth century Niger Delta / Raphael Chijioke Njoku

The clustering of Igbo in the Americas : where, when, how, and why? / Gwendolyn Mildo Hall

The demography of the Bight of Biafra slave trade, c. 1650-1850 / Paul E. Lovejoy

The Igbo diaspora in the era of the slave trade / Douglas B. Chambers

The Igbo diaspora in the Atlantic world : African origins and New World / Chima J. Korieh

Olaudah Equiano and the forging of an Igbo identity / Vincent Carretta

Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa

what's in a name? / Paul E. Lovejoy

Archibald Monteath : imperial pawn and individual agent / Maureen Warner-Lewis

Igbo influences on masquerading and drum-dances in the Caribbean / Robert W. Nicholls

The Afro-Caribbean diaspora in reverse and its implications for the development of Christianity and education in Igboland, southeastern Nigeria : 1895-1925 / Waibinte E. Wariboko

The making of Igbo ethnicity in the Nigerian setting : colonialism, identity, and the politics of difference / Raphael Chijioke Njoku

Ethnicity and the contemporary Igbo artist : shifting Igbo identities in the post-civil war Nigerian art world / Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie

Osondu : patterns of the Igbo quest for Jesus power / Ogbu U. Kalu.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Igbo in the Atlantic world

ISBN:

9780253022455

0253022452

OCLC:

933437839

Publisher Number:

40026503692