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The Crisis of Faith and Morality of the Igbo Christians of Nigeria
Groundwork of the History and Culture of Onitsha
Atuolu Omalu
Author: Jonathan O. Chimakonam
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2014-12-15
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0761864555
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of African philosophy is surrounded by controversy. Decades after the “great debate” over its mere existence, many vital questions have been left unanswered. From examining the origins of African philosophy to addressing fundamental issues in ontology, epistemology, ethics, and political thought, this collection of essays brings fresh insight to questions both old and new. First time readers and seasoned scholars alike will find this book to be an essential resource in African thought. Atụọlụ Ọmalụ gives shape and direction to a hitherto formless discipline and heralds an exciting future for African philosophy.
Africana Marburgensia
The Significant Role of Initiation in the Traditional Igbo Culture and Religion
Author: George Nnaemeka Oranekwu
Publisher: Iko
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the face of the difficult task of inculturating the Christian faith in Igboland, christianizing the Igbo and igbonizing Christianity, this book offers an interesting and inspiring study of Igbo traditional initiation forms in comparison with the Christian sacraments of initiation. Because of its characteristic features and the significant role in Igbo tradition and culture, it proposes traditional Igbo initiation forms as inculturation basis for pastoral catechesis of Christian initiation.
LASU Journal of Humanities
Highlife Music in West Africa
Author: Sonny Oti
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 978842208X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Highlife Music in West Africa is an excursion into the origins and development of an extraordinary music form. Highlife music is essentially an urban music, but unlike dance music performed using Western musical instruments, its dynamism is based less in the aesthetics of form and style than in song-texts. Critics treat highlife as a popular music genre, but this fails to acknowledge the role that the lyrics of highlife music played in the search for political, economic, and national growth and stability in Africa. Highlife musicians' messages, like drama and theater scripts, not only reflect Africa's culture but also highlight her social, economic, and political problems. The involvement of radicals and Pan-Africanists has helped elevate highlife musicians from the status of entertainers to a more serious and responsible one, as modern African town criers, whose song-texts are communal messages, warnings, and counseling.
Conceptual Decolonization in African Philosophy
Author: Kwasi Wiredu
Publisher: Hope Publishing Company (IL)
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Indigenous Communication in Africa
Author: Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book argues that indigenous modes of communication ? for example the oral tradition, drama, indigenous entertainment forms, cultural modes and local language radio ? are essential to the societies within which they exist and which create them; and that coupled with newer, or modern forms of communication technology such as the internet and digitised information, endogenous modes of communication are paramount to the processes of human development in Africa.
