From What We Should Do to Who We Should Be

From What We Should Do to Who We Should Be PDF

Author: Benedict Chidi Nwachukwu-Udaku

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2011-08-05

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 1463414129

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HIV/AIDS constitutes a global problem. A good number of scholars from different nationalities, multiple rationalities, religious sensibilities, theological intelligibilities and ethical, cultural, and ecclesiastical backgrounds have affirmed that this worldwide quagmire constitutes a global health problem and social malady which does not have a well-defined geographically limited spread. The global nature of HIV/AIDS as seen in the statistics does not however undermine the fact that the effects of this sickness are not felt proportionally from one nation to another. This book proposes to situate the local as a veritable site of empowerment for communities dealing with HIV/AIDS, as it is the case with the African continent. The author of this book, over and above the way the problem of HIV/AIDS has been constructed, projected, and reviewed, decided to situate this epidemic of the 20th Century within the socio-cultural and political context of the Nigerian nation with particular reference to the Igbo people. The task of contextualizing this problem reveal the identity of the author as an Igbo, and as a theologian, who engages the indigenous ethical principles, unsophisticated traditional wisdom, cultural and religious values of his people in offering solutions that resonate the cultural identity of his people in dialogue with modern and post-modern constructs.

Ije Ego

Ije Ego PDF

Author: S.A. Abakwue

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2011-05-18

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1456889508

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Akwụkwọ nkea bu maka ego. Edere m ya ka iwee gụa ya, were kwa ndumọdu di nime ya lụa ọlu. Ọchichọm bu ka inweta aku na uba ri nne. Ọbụrụ na ọbughi otua, agaghi m etufu ogem nihi na ogem bu ihe di oke ọnụ ahia. Achọtara m, na oge mụ na gi di nkpumkpu n'elu ụwa. Oge nke na-agafe adighi aloghachi; nihi na ọpughi ilọghachi. Ọbụ ihe kwesiri ekwesi ka iwere ogea di ntakiri lụa ọlụ diri gi bu ọlụ buru ibu, na ọlụ di itu-n'anya. Ọbụrụ na ipụghi ime otua, oge ahu bu nani ihe efu. Ọbughi nzube m ka idọgbue onwe gi n'ọlụ n'efu. Ihe mwute ka ọbu na ọtụtụ mmadu bu ndi-oru n'ebe aku na ụba di. Tule okwua n'obi gi kwa ụbọchi, tumadu, n'ututu, mgbe itetara n'ụra. Tule ya n'oge ina-eje ilụrụ ndi-ọzọ ọlụ.

Changing Genders in Intercultural Perspectives

Changing Genders in Intercultural Perspectives PDF

Author: Barbara Saunders

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9789058672018

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Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the essays in this book develop contextual and strategic analyses of the way sex-gender constellations can be configured as political identities, as a resource, or in response to unforeseen contingencies.

Male Daughters, Female Husbands

Male Daughters, Female Husbands PDF

Author: Professor Ifi Amadiume

Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.

Published: 2015-03-12

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 178360333X

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In 1987, more than a decade before the dawn of queer theory, Ifi Amadiume wrote Male Daughters, Female Husbands, to critical acclaim. This compelling and highly original book frees the subject position of 'husband' from its affiliation with men, and goes on to do the same for other masculine attributes, dislocating sex, gender and sexual orientation. Boldly arguing that the notion of gender, as constructed in Western feminist discourse, did not exist in Africa before the colonial imposition of a dichotomous understanding of sexual difference, Male Daughters, Female Husbands examines the structures in African society that enabled people to achieve power, showing that roles were not rigidly masculinized nor feminized. At a time when gender and queer theory are viewed by some as being stuck in an identity-politics rut, this outstanding study not only warns against the danger of projecting a very specific, Western notion of difference onto other cultures, but calls us to question the very concept of gender itself.

Oyibos

Oyibos PDF

Author: Gus Udo

Publisher: Gus Udo

Published: 2011-08-22

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0984045317

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This vivid memoir offers a fascinating glimpse into the modern-day life of a West African emigrant who embarks on an extraordinary half-century journey to England and America. An intelligent, poignant, and ultimately inspiring account of how unforeseen circumstances can change lives dramatically.

Overcoming Women's Subordination in the Igbo African Culture and in the Catholic Church

Overcoming Women's Subordination in the Igbo African Culture and in the Catholic Church PDF

Author: Rose N. Uchem

Publisher: Universal-Publishers

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1581121334

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"When African scholars lament over the near destruction of African cultures, they do not reflect the reality of African women's historical traditions of empowerment and inclusion in pre-colonial/pre-Christian African societies, which were also lost in the same process of Western Christian cultural imperialism. Similarly, most male Church theologians writing or speaking about inculturation do not address the deeper cultural issues, which impact heavily on African women. ..... [from back cover]

The Politics of Cultural Performance

The Politics of Cultural Performance PDF

Author: David J. Parkin

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9781571819253

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For beginning students and lay readers, introduces the basics of psychoanalytic and behaviorist psychology by examining the systems of eight major practitioners and theorists. Highlights how the psychodynamic and behavioristic schools complement each other in psychological paradigms, experimental perspectives, and mental structures. The last, posthumously published, book by Keehn (psychology, York University, Canada). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

UZO UBA NA OGANIRU

UZO UBA NA OGANIRU PDF

Author: S.A. Abakwue

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-01-17

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1479732524

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Path to Progress, was originally written in the African language, Igbo. Now, it is translated into the global language, English. A look at the book’s contents reveals a literary fortress in pure contents...the very rays of the financial spirits ... the virile bulk of ideas, drawn from the eternal oceans of financial wealth. For example, the seven phenomenal steps, and even the eight tremendous blessings, are among the liberating forces that would fight to free the shackled from financial bondage. The eight forms of wealth are so woven through the pages of the book’s fifteen chapters ... among them: desire, talent, hope, learning, encouragement, determination, work, innate experience, etc. These citadels of wisdom are not only the forces of enrichment, the mirrors of pure paths to clear wealth, but even the very clouds of the coming rain of eternal progress. Show more Show less

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