1st Edition
African Cultural Values Igbo Political Leadership in Colonial Nigeria, 1900–1996
By Raphael Chijioke Njoku
Copyright 2006
270 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
270 Pages
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Routledge
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Although numerous studies have been made of the Western educated political elite of colonial Nigeria in particular, and of Africa in general, very few have approached the study from a perspective that analyzes the impacts of indigenous institutions on the lives, values, and ideas of these individuals. This book is about the diachronic impact of indigenous and Western agencies in the upbringing,... Read more
Foreword 1. Introduction 2. Traditions, Adaptations, and Social Change Under Colonial Rule 3. Dr. Alvan Azinna Ikoku of Arochukwu (1900–1971) 4. Dr. Akanu Ibiam: The Eze Ogo I of Unwana (Afikpo) (1906–1995) 5. The Arondizuogu 'Argonauts': Mazi Mbonu Ojike (1914–1956) and Dr. Kingsley Ozuomba Mbadiwe (1917–1990) 6. Epilogue
Biography
Raphael Chijioke Njoku, PhD., holds a joint position as Assistant Professor of African History in the Departments of History and Pan African Studies, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He has previously taught at the Department of History, Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Nigeria. Njoku is the author of Culture and Customs of Morocco (2005). He has also been published in several international journals and edited volumes.
