Of the estimated 1.7 million enslaved people taken from the Bight of Biafra in the transatlantic slave trade, some three-quarters or about 1.3 million were Igbo. As the British dominated the Biafran trade, especially before 1810, the great majority of enslaved Igbo wound up in the British Americas. The single most important diasporic destination in this massive forced migration was Jamaica. Enslaved Igbo also were taken in large numbers to other British Caribbean islands, as well as to what became the United States, and to the French sugar-island of Saint-Domingue (Haiti), and in the nineteenth century to Cuba and Brazil. This book explains the basic historical geography of the enslaved Igbo Diaspora and suggests the many ways that Igbo contributed to slave resistance and the development of early African-American cultures in the New World, as well as historical consequences of the violence of slaving for Igboland itself. Throughout the Atlantic world, Igbo Africans had a well-deserved reputation as "bad slaves." Who in their right mind would wish to be remembered as a "good" slave?

Igbo Diaspora in the Era of the Slave Trade An Introductory History

Douglas B. Chambers

Goldline and Jacobs Publishing

This anthology, Resident Alien and Other Stories is a unique collection by many standards. First, it is a creative work realized by erudite academics turned fiction writers, whose passion for the written word comes from the desire to explore contemporary cross-cultural and identity issues, through creating in the literary short story genre. Second, as literary luminaries they have paid close attention to style, for the technique of short fiction writing demands utmost attention to the craft of writing that is only second to the demands of poetry writing. Third, the collection spans a wide range of materials, from children's story, crime, feminism, love, sex and romance, poetry, rhetoric, ethnics and racism. Those are realistic subjects featuring directly lived experiences or experiences of people the writers have observed. Some of them are so real that they might annoy someone. However, the con-tributors request not to be liked or disliked for their work, but rather to be admired for their exploration of human drama and for their creative genius. Fourth, their stories are not stereotypical nor are they designed to prove something. On the contrary, they reflect the sheer complexity and complications of human communities across transnational borders. Despite the research that has gone into them, they are clear, lucid, believable, and authentic stories in which the characters drive the human narrative with their everlasting quality. We chal-lenge the reader to ascertain the stories that were written long ago and put away bidding the time and opportunity to be published, and those written recently, impetuously, as it were, to respond to the call for contributions to this anthology. Finally, this first fruit of the harvest season is a forerunner of the next collection and other collections in a series to come. Stay tuned!

Resident Alien and Other Stories: An Anthology of Immigrant Voices from Africa and the African Diaspora

Ada Azodo

Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo

Nigeria and the Lugardian hubris: vision, crisis and prospects is an integrative, multidisciplinary and scholarly analysis of the Nigerian state. It is a forceful indictment of Lugard's indirect rule that wrecked lives and destroyed pristine societies. It is timely candy well argued - Okwadike Chukwuemeka Ezeife, PhD ( Harvardb) and former Governor of Anambra State, South East Nigeria.

Nigerian and the Lugardian Hubris (Vision Crisis And Prospects)

Ihechukwu Madubuike

Akụkọ a bụ banyere umunne abụọ Amanze na Ikediobi bụ ndi nọ na iro ọtụtụ afọ. Ihe nile di n' elu ụwa nwere ihe mere ha jiri dịịri. Ha nile nwere ihe ha na arụ. Nwanne enweghi ihe dika ya. Oso n' otu n' ime ihe di n' ụwa ana agaghi eji ego zụta. Mana obụ nani mgbe ụkwụ jiere agụ, ka mgbada ji abiara ya ụgwo. Mgbe mmadụ na nwanne ya bịara nwebe okwu bụ mgbe ụmụ nnadi na-abia n' etiti ha. Akụ gụrụ nwata agụụ anaghi arụ ya afo. Ha mesịrị dozie okwu we birikwa. Ya bụrụ ya. Ihe mere eji egbochi agadi nwanyị ịta ụkpala bụ, n'ihi na obuta ụkwara ozuo oha onụ.

Iwe Nwanne Anaghi Eru N'Okpukpu

Emmanuel Ugokwe

This book can be read as a historical voyage of the Igbos of Nigeria since their encounter with alien cultures and their heroic response to the challenges posed by the encounter. In a narrative that reads like an epic drama the author captures the high points of the Igbo existential constraints across time and space and their efforts to master their environment in its physical and metaphysical dimensions. The slave trade increased internecine wars and led to the depopulation of the Igbo country side. Colonialism and the policy of Indirect Rule brought to a standstill a people's burgeoning democratic and egalitarian system of governance and replaced it with the obnoxious system of warrant chiefs, in a society that believes that 'there is a king in every person." It was only a matter of time for the resentment occasioned by these events to explode. Igbos had fired warning shots through bloody confrontations with the British. Typical examples are the Aba Women's War of 1929 and the Iva Valley Coal Miners revolt in 1949. The author shows how these events would eventually lead to a civil war because of the Igbo spirit against injustice. For a people noted for their proclivity to commit suicide rather than to submit to slavery of any kind, war was nothing but an unavoidable demonstration of their will to be free. The bloody civil war that resulted wreaked havoc on the Nigerian society as well as on the Igbo ethnic formation. The Igbo Challenge, Beyond Recrimination and Rancour is copious with suggestions on the way the Igbos can recapture their lost glories within a constraining and vengeful Nigerian polity and how Nigeria can be a true federation of equal partners.

The Igbo Challenge in Nigeria: Beyond Rancour and Recrimination

The 1960s in Africa was a period of significant political transformation which saw the end of European colonialism and the emergence of independent African states. Like other emerging nations in Africa, Nigeria entered the postcolonial period with a sense of optimism. As various Nigerian societies began to respond to the emerging political systems bequeathed by British colonialism, the ideology and culture of ethnic politics began to find resonance among the political elites from diverse ethnic groups. By the middle of the 1960s, Nigeria had begun to experience political crises that culminated in the Nigeria-Biafra war (1967-1970) which pitched the rest of Nigeria against the Igbo of the Southeast. Against All Odds explores the experiences of the Igbo in postcolonial Nigeria. It evinces both the grim side of postcolonial politics in Nigeria, particularly the horrors of ethnic politics, civil war, and the Igbo example of perseverance and human potential to overcome dreadful conditions of such magnitude. The collection illuminates the tension emanating from the enduring colonial legacies and their influences on Nigerian peoples and public life. Against All Odds links socioeconomic, cultural, and political events in Nigeria since the 1960s and the peculiar circumstances faced by the Igbo ethnic group with the continuing attempts to forge a more perfect nation state in which every constituent group is treated with fairness and equity. This book will appeal to the wider academic community working on modern Nigeria. It will also be of value to those whose work involves the nature of the postcolonial state in Africa and the crisis of nation building in modern Africa

Against All Odds: The Igbo Experience in Postcolonial Nigeria

History

Africa

This book is an account of my stewardship both as a civil servant and a politician. I write not to celebrate self or to debunk frivolous and baseless allegations by my detractors, but to document for posterity my efforts to improve the welfare of fellow citizens. I also write to explain my approach to governance, my attitude to power, the philosophy and desire that motivate and drive me to act and behave the way I do. I write candidly about the circumstances of my early years; the people and events that shaped my life; my years in public service; my foray into politics; and my challenges as Governor of Abia State

Confronting Errors with the Truth: The Story of My Life and the Challenges of Governance

Theodore Orji

Between Tradition and Change explores selected themes on the historical, socio-economic and ethno-political history of the Igbo of Nigeria.  Its coverage encompasses political economy, civil society, religion and politics, traditional politics, crime and punishment, literature and politics, cosmology, and women in politics. The book provides an insightful account of state formation processes in Igboland, and the embattled transformation of Igbo society, norms and political economy since the period of colonial encounter with Europe. It includes detailed accounts of the impact of Christianity and colonialism on Igbo communal cohesion and traditional norms. The book reveals that core Igbo values are important in understanding the character and trajectory of the transformations that have occurred and how the Igbo responded to these transformations in national, regional, and international contexts. Between Tradition and Change is an indispensable work for a micro analysis of the major forces of change in African societies since the colonial period.

Apollos O. Nwauwa is Professor of history and Africana studies as well as director of Africana studies program at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. Nwauwa received his MA and PhD degrees in African History from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He has authored several works on the Igbo and other related subjects. Co-editor, Against All Odds: The Igbo Experience in Postcolonial Nigeria (2011) and currently the Editor-in-Chief, Ofo: Journal of Transatlantic Studies.

Ebere Onwudiwe is a professor of political science and Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Development, Abuja, Nigeria. His books include Afro-optimism (Praeger, 2002) and The Aftermath of the Nigerian Civil War, (University of Ibadan Press, 2004).

Between Tradition and Change: Sociopolitical and Economic Transformation Among the Igbo of Nigeria

Crude Waves of the Delta

Chris Onyema

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