Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Makes a significant contribution to the sociology and historiography of the Igbo society, by documenting not only the cultural genealology, heterogeneity and dialects of this society but also their contributions to diasporic cultural formation, identity, and transmutation. This is probably the most comprehensive collection of scholarship on diverse aspects of Igbo society and culture." -Ifeanyi Ezeonu, Brock University
Table of ContentsAbbreviations
Preface and Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
Raphael Chijioke Njoku and Toyin Falola
SECTION I: IGBO INSTITUTIONS AND CUSTOMS AS BASELINE
2. The Kingless People: The Speech Act as Shield and Sword
Hannah Chukwu
3. Igbo Goddesses and the Priests and Male Priestesses Who Serve Them
Nwando Achebe
4. Gender Relations in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Igbo Society
Gloria Chuku
SECTION II: THE IGBO IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA: THE MECHANICS AND PATTERNS OF MIGRATIONS, SETTLEMENTS AND DEMOGRAPHICS
5. The Aro and the Trade of the Bight
A. E. Afigbo
6. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade from the Bight of Biafra: An Overview
Kenneth Morgan
7. The Igbo and African Backgrounds of the Slave Cargo of the Henrietta Maria
John Thornton
8. 'A Great Many Boys and Girls': Igbo Children in the British Slave Trade, 1700-1808
Audra A. Diptee
9. Becoming African: Igbo Slaves and Social Reordering in Nineteenth Century Niger Delta Raphael Chijioke Njoku
10. The Clustering of Igbo in the Americas: Where, When, How, and Why?
Gwendolyn Mildo Hall
11. The Demography of the Bight of Biafra Slave Trade, c. 1650-1850
Paul E. Lovejoy
12. The Igbo Diaspora in the Era of the Slave Trade
Douglas B. Chambers
SECTION III: CULTURAL CROSSCURRENTS: DIMENSIONS OF THE IGBO EXPERIENCE IN THE ATHLANTIC WORLD
13. The Igbo Diaspora in the Atlantic World: African Origins and New World
Chima J. Korieh
14. Olaudah Equiano and the Forging of an Igbo Identity
Vincent Carretta
15. Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa – What's in a Name?
Paul E. Lovejoy
16. Archibald Monteath: Imperial Pawn and Individual Agent
Maureen Warner-Lewis
17. Igbo Influences on Masquerading and Drum-Dances in the Caribbean
Robert W. Nicholls
18. 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
19. The Making of Igbo Ethnicity in the Nigerian Setting: Colonialism, Identity, and the Politics of Difference
Raphael Chijioke Njoku
20. Ethnicity and the Contemporary Igbo Artist: Shifting Igbo Identities in the Post-Civil War Nigerian Art World
Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie
21. SNDU: Patterns of the Igbo Quest for Jesus Power
Ogbu U. Kalu
Selected Bibliography
Notes on Authors
Index
