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Igbo in the Atlantic world : African origins and diasporic destinations / edited by Toyin Falola and Raphael Chijioke Njoku ; contributors, Nwando Achebe [and eighteen others].
- Format:
- Book
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (371 pages) : illustrations, photographs
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana ; Indianapolis, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Moving beyond descriptions of generic African experiences, this collection includes 21 essays by prominent scholars throughout the world.
- 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:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- OCLC:
- 964279335
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