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Full-Text Articles in African American Studies
Contextualizing Feminism Within Igbo History And An Analysis Of The Works Of Ngozi Anyanwu, Chisom Awachie
Contextualizing Feminism Within Igbo History And An Analysis Of The Works Of Ngozi Anyanwu, Chisom Awachie
Theatre Thesis - Written Thesis
Throughout Nigeria’s history, Igbo women have contended with violence from colonial and imperialist forces and misogyny from the Igbo men in their communities. In solidarity with one another, Igbo women have continued to fight back to ensure their voices are heard in politics and access to professional careers. The Nigerian- and Igbo-American playwright Ngozi Anyanwu writes about Igbo women who assert themselves and maintain their agency throughout cultural and interpersonal conflicts, similar to these historical strategies. Anyanwu’s plays The Homecoming Queen, Good Grief, and My Name…is Beatrice feature women dealing with grief, sexual trauma, and access to reproductive healthcare between …
Black Women’S Wellbeing: The Intersections Of Race, Immigrant Status, And Mental Health Among African Diasporan Women In Houston, Texas, Sianneh Vesslee
Black Women’S Wellbeing: The Intersections Of Race, Immigrant Status, And Mental Health Among African Diasporan Women In Houston, Texas, Sianneh Vesslee
African American and Africana Studies Summer Fellows
My central research question is: how has white supremacy impacted African Diaspora women’s mental health, access to mental healthcare, and identities as mental health patients in the United States as discernible in advertisements and state policies for psychological wellness? More specifically, I will investigate whether and/or how white supremacy shapes the ways in which advertising and state policies for mental healthcare address the particular needs of black women who immigrate to Houston, Texas from Lagos, Nigeria and Coahuila, Mexico. I choose those geographies because Houston is a U.S. city with one of the highest populations of black immigrants from Nigeria …
Women And Religion In Nigeria, Fatai A. Olasupo
Women And Religion In Nigeria, Fatai A. Olasupo
The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs
No abstract provided.
Gender And The Politics Of Exclusion In Pre-Colonial Ibadan: The Case Of Iyalode Efunsetan Aniwura, Olawale F. Idowu, Sunday A. Ogunode
Gender And The Politics Of Exclusion In Pre-Colonial Ibadan: The Case Of Iyalode Efunsetan Aniwura, Olawale F. Idowu, Sunday A. Ogunode
The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs
No abstract provided.
African And African-Influenced Sacred Music, Suzanne Flandreau
African And African-Influenced Sacred Music, Suzanne Flandreau
The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs
No abstract provided.
Mbiti And Achebe On The Forward Movement Through The Past, Chima Anyadike
Mbiti And Achebe On The Forward Movement Through The Past, Chima Anyadike
The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs
No abstract provided.
Home Burials, Church Graveyards, And Public Cemeteries: Transformations In Ibadan Mortuary Practice, 1853-1960, Olufunke Adeboye
Home Burials, Church Graveyards, And Public Cemeteries: Transformations In Ibadan Mortuary Practice, 1853-1960, Olufunke Adeboye
The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs
No abstract provided.
From John S. Mbiti To Jacob K. Olupona: A Literary Journey In Review, Regennia N. Williams
From John S. Mbiti To Jacob K. Olupona: A Literary Journey In Review, Regennia N. Williams
The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs
No abstract provided.
An Illustrated Introductory Note, Regennia N. Williams
An Illustrated Introductory Note, Regennia N. Williams
The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs
No abstract provided.
Pentecostalism In An African Context, Michael L. Zadell
Pentecostalism In An African Context, Michael L. Zadell
The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs
No abstract provided.
Ogbuisi, Chief Paul Okali, Bronx African American History Project
Ogbuisi, Chief Paul Okali, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
Chief Paul Okali Ogbuisi was born in 1954 in the Ugweke section of Nigeria’s southern Abia State capital, Umuahia. The eldest child of his family, Chief Paul was educated at both the primary and secondary school level, finishing at age 18 eighteen to join the textile business. When Chief Paul was six years old and still in primary school, Nigeria gained its independence. In 1967 when Chief Paul was thirteen years old, a civil war known as the Biafran war began between the predominantly Islamic north and the predominantly Christian south. Due to violent attacks on hospitals, churches, and schools …
Kogolo, Raymond, Jr., Bronx African American History Project
Kogolo, Raymond, Jr., Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
Interviewee: Raymond Kogolo Jr.
Interviewers: Ogonetojoh Okoh, Brian Purnell
Summarized By: Eddie Mikus
Raymond Kogolo Jr. is a Bronx resident who came to the borough from Lagos, Nigeria, in order to attend Fordham University. In his interview, he discussed his experience at a Nigerian boarding school as well as his life in the Bronx as a Nigerian immigrant.
As a child, Kogolo’s mother came to the Bronx due to her job as an airline pilot and split the family’s time between the borough and Nigeria. Kogolo said that many of the children he played in the Bronx were either African-American …
Empowering The Third Force In Contemporary Nigerian Politics, Chukwuma Azuonye
Empowering The Third Force In Contemporary Nigerian Politics, Chukwuma Azuonye
Africana Studies Faculty Publication Series
Remarks on the occasion of a traditional reception for Wole Soyinka by the Nigerian community in Boston at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, July 23, 1995.