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Igbo in the Atlantic world : African origins and diasporic destinations

Title
Igbo in the Atlantic world : African origins and diasporic destinations / edited by Toyin Falola and Raphael Chijioke Njoku.
ISBN
9780253022455
0253022452
Publication
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
Physical Description
viii, 356 pages ; 27 cm
Other formats
Online version: Igbo in the Atlantic world Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 16, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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