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Latino, Juan, 1516-1606, Chukwuma Azuonye Dec 2007

Latino, Juan, 1516-1606, Chukwuma Azuonye

Chukwuma Azuonye

A bio-bibliographical profile of an African exile of Guinea (West African) origins who flourished in Spain in the 16th century where he was a university professor, composed heroic and epic poetry in classical Latin, and was well-connected in Spanish aristocratic circles into which he married.


Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-1797, Chukwuma Azuonye Dec 2007

Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-1797, Chukwuma Azuonye

Chukwuma Azuonye

A bio-bibliographical profile of an ex-slave African autobiographer, cultural nationalistm polemicist and abolitionist philosopher of Igbo origins who flourished in Britain in the 18th century.


Horton, James Africanus Beale, 1835-1883, Chukwuma Azuonye Dec 2007

Horton, James Africanus Beale, 1835-1883, Chukwuma Azuonye

Chukwuma Azuonye

A bio-bibliographical profile of 19th century author, political philosopher, and forerunner of pan-Africanism, Afrocentrism and other 20th century pan-African nationalist ideologies, born in Sierra Leone of parents of Igbo origins.


Sancho, Ignatius, 1729-1780, Chukwuma Azuonye Dec 2007

Sancho, Ignatius, 1729-1780, Chukwuma Azuonye

Chukwuma Azuonye

A bio-bibliographical profile of an African exile of unknown ethnic origins who flourished in Britain in the 18th century where he wrote letters in elegant English Enlightenment style of the day on various topics from an uprooted African perspective


Africanus, Sextus Julius, C. 160-C. 240, Chukwuma Azuonye Dec 2007

Africanus, Sextus Julius, C. 160-C. 240, Chukwuma Azuonye

Chukwuma Azuonye

Bio-bibliographical profile of an early Christian African polymath and author.


Cugoano, Ottobah, C. 1745-1802, Chukwuma Azuonye Dec 2007

Cugoano, Ottobah, C. 1745-1802, Chukwuma Azuonye

Chukwuma Azuonye

A bio-bibliographical profile of an African polemicist and abolitionist philosopher who flourished in Britain in the 18th century.


Amo, Antonius Guilielmus (Wilhelm), 1703-C.1750’S, Chukwuma Azuonye Dec 2007

Amo, Antonius Guilielmus (Wilhelm), 1703-C.1750’S, Chukwuma Azuonye

Chukwuma Azuonye

Bio-bibliographical profile of an African philosopher, poet, university professor and author from the Gold Coast (now Ghana) who flourished in Germany in the 18th Century


U.S.-Japan Women’S Journal, Special Issue On Itō Hiromi, Jeffrey Angles Dec 2006

U.S.-Japan Women’S Journal, Special Issue On Itō Hiromi, Jeffrey Angles

Jeffrey Angles

Itō, born in 1955 in Tokyo, is one of the most important and dynamic poets of contemporary Japanese literature. After her sensational debut in the late 1970s, she emerged as the foremost voice of the wave of women's poetry that swept Japan in the 1980s, writing about the female body, sexuality, abortion, migration, and international displacement with a frankness that revolutionized the way that poetry was being written in Japan. This journal consists of a number of new analytical essays by several young researchers of Japanese literature about Itō's contributions to modern Japanese literature and feminine self-expression. It also contains …


Azuonye: Lectures In Igbo Literature And Stylistics, Chukwuma Azuonye Dec 2006

Azuonye: Lectures In Igbo Literature And Stylistics, Chukwuma Azuonye

Chukwuma Azuonye

A festschrift comprising a compilation of my lectures on Igbo oral literature and stylistics, in the 1980’s, edited by my former students in the Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka


Christopher Okigbo International Conference: A Multidisciplinary Celebration Of Okigbo’S Legacy, September 19-23, 2007: Program., Chukwuma Azuonye Dec 2006

Christopher Okigbo International Conference: A Multidisciplinary Celebration Of Okigbo’S Legacy, September 19-23, 2007: Program., Chukwuma Azuonye

Chukwuma Azuonye

An illustrated Sourvenir Program of the International Conference on the Life and Career of Africa's leading Anglophone, postcolonial, transnational poet of the 20th Century, Christopher Okigbo (1930-1967), with a Preface and Introduction focussing on the theme, Postcolonial African Poetry and the Ideals of the Open Society/Teaching and Learning from the Poetry of Christopher Okigbo


"Art Viewed As An (Im)Moral Institution":Schiller's The Ghost-Seer, Scott Abbott Dec 1990

"Art Viewed As An (Im)Moral Institution":Schiller's The Ghost-Seer, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

No abstract provided.


The Heroic Age Of The Ohafia Igbo: Its Evolution And Socio-Cultural Consequences, Chukwuma Azuonye May 1990

The Heroic Age Of The Ohafia Igbo: Its Evolution And Socio-Cultural Consequences, Chukwuma Azuonye

Chukwuma Azuonye

No abstract provided.


Igbo Names In The Nominal Roll Of Amelié, An Early 19th Century Slave Ship From Martinique: Reconstructions, Interpretations And Inferences, Chukwuma Azuonye Dec 1989

Igbo Names In The Nominal Roll Of Amelié, An Early 19th Century Slave Ship From Martinique: Reconstructions, Interpretations And Inferences, Chukwuma Azuonye

Chukwuma Azuonye

The names discussed in the present paper come from the nominal roll of “212 Africans, all Ibos, who constituted the clandestine freight of Amelié, a slave-ship commissioned at Saint-Pierre, Martinique, and captured by the royal corvettee, Sapho, on February 8, 1822, in the Caribbean Sea." The list was forwarded to me as far back as 1985 through Abiola Irele (then of the University of Ibadan), at the instance of the great Martinique cultural nationalist poet, Aimé Cesaire (1913–2008), by Mme Thesée, a French scholar who was then completing a study of the secret passage of this particular group of slaves. …