IGBO ARCHIVES

Chiefly with reference to the Village of Umueke Agbaja by M. M. GREEN, M.A. Senior Lecturer in West African Languages and Cultures, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (Sometime Leverhulme Research Fellow)

SIDGWICK AND JACKSON LIMITED LONDON 1947 First Edition

'The Igbo (Igbo) are one of the most important peoples of Nigeria. They present, moreover, a number of difficult problems. Their population of about a thousand to the square mile with resulting exhaustion of their agricultural land. From the point of view of political organisation, their villages or groups of villages are more or less independent and highly democratic units. This creates considerable administrative problems. The Ibo are enterprising and hardworking and their women play an important part in their village life. This book describes how the village in which the writer lived managed its affairs and how its women were organised. In an appendix is discussed the new approach to the problem of temperament and its relevance to the relations between English and Ibo people.'

This book is based upon some of the material collected during two periods of field work, one of thirteen and the other of eleven months between 1934 and 1937 in South Eastern Nigeria.

Written by Anezi Okoro and illustrated by Charles Ohu.

'Wilson Tagbo goes off to secondary school and there falls into one trouble after another, sometimes innocently, but sometimes not.

Anezi Okoro is a Senior Lecturer in Medicine at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. This is his fourth book for young people.'

Bought at NGOCA BOOK SHOPS on 88 Upper New Mkt. Rd. Onitsha published by the African Universities Press, Ibadan and reprinted 1976; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1980

Written by Cyprian Ekwen, illustrated by Bruce Onobrakpeya

Africa Readers Library No 1, African Universities Press Lagos

First published 1962, seventh impression 1970 Printed in Nigeria by the Caxton Press (West Africa) Limited The publishers are grateful to the editor of Nigeria Magazine who prepared the manuscript for the press.

Introduction

"Put your money on this sheepskin" said the old man, "and if, by the time I finish my tale, there is one of you awake, that man shall claim everything we have collected." Young men, old men, children, women, they all put some money on the sheepskin beside the story teller. He waited till they sat down. He himself settled comfortably on the catifa and smiled. "It is a long tale of vengeance, adventure and love. We shall sit here until the moon pales and still it will not have been told. It is enough entertainment for a whole night: AN AFRICAN NIGHT'S ENTERTAINMENT.'

By Nkem Nwankwo, illustrated by Adebayo Ajaji - African Reader's Library 2

'Tales Out of School.

Bayo goes to secondary school and in his first term experiences a class rebellion and a challenge to the school football team. Bayo's adventures continue in More Tales Out of School.

Nkem Nwankwo now works for the Daily Times in Lagos'

African Universities Press, Pilgrim Books Limited, Ibadan, Nigeria

First published by African Universities Press 1963, First published by Gina and Company Ltd 1971, Reprinted 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981

'The creation of modern Igbo calendar and date system came up as a result of the challenges in regard to the rate at which Igbo culture and tradition is diminishing in our society with wrong concept of modern age/21st century. We wrongly perceive 21st century/modern age as a way of abandoning our culture and tradition, rather than seeing it as the ability to reform and transform Igbo culture and tradition to fit into the present age and have global position. White men do not abandon theirs, rather they reform and transform it for better future. Know it, that any society which lost its identity is as good as not existing.'

Consultation and Presentation

Since the first publication of modern Igbo calendar in 2014, this work has been presented to different institutions, governmental and non-governmental organisations, communities, and individuals which include; Enugu State Ministry of Culture and Tourism with a copy kept there, UNN Main Library with a copy kept there, Institure of African Studies UNN, Department of Linguistic - Igbo - and other Nigerian Languages UNN, Department of Igbo African and Communication Studies, National Institute for Cultural Orientation, National Museum Unity - Enugu and Enugu North Traditional Rulers.

Radio Program

Coal city F.M. 92.9 Enugu, ESBS Sunrise F.M. 96.1 Enugu, Dream F.M. 92.5 Enugu, Voice F.M. 96.7 Nsukka, Lion F.M. 91.1 UNN

By Chukwdi Nwaokoro, illustrated by Obidi Mike Okpala

Design, printed and bound by Pacific College Limited Obosi, Anambra State, Nigeria

First published 1993, second published 2003, reprinted 2004

By Chinedum C. Anidebe

First published in 1994

Mid-field publishers Ltd., 28 Okosi Road, P.O. Box 8026, Phone (046) 218775, Onitsha.

FOREWORD

TRUTHFULLY, much has been said and written about the revival and protection of African culture. Still, not much as been done. The erstwhile continental African moonlight story-telling readily comes to mind in this respect. This area of the African world, much neglected over the years, seriously cries for the so-called protection. The author hereby re-tells some of the old African folk-stories, orally handed down through generations, in a bid to uphold our heritage. Whereas school teachers will find this work ideal for their pupils' academic work, the stories could, if studied, be very entertaining to all adults in love with the African world. Chukwuemeka Eleke, Department of Philosophy, U.N.N.

Revised Edition, Make Elementri 1

F Chidozie Ogbalu, B Sc Econ (Lond), FRES (Lond), dere

University Publishing Company and Nelson

First published 1972, reprinted 1973, 1974, 1976 (twice), 1978, 1979, Revised edition 1980

Revised Edition, Make Elementri 2

F Chidozie Ogbalu, B Sc Econ (Lond), FRES (Lond), dere

University Publishing Company and Nelson

First published 1972, reprinted 1973, 1974, 1976 (twice), 1978, 1979, Revised edition 1980

KMP Kawuriz & Manilas Publishers LTD

First edition 1989, Second edition 1993, Third edition 2004

Printed by Mark of Time Limited, Ojata, Lagos.

Longman Nigeria Plc, Ikeja, Agbor, Ibadan, Ilorin, Owerri, Zaria and representatives throughout Nigeria.

First published 1976, reprinted 1981, 1982, 1985, New edition 1992

By O.C. Nwametu

Printed in Nigeria by Clarendon Press Ltd., 9, Ikosi Rd., Kept, Lagos. Tel:933859

Longman Nigeria Plc, Ikeja, Abeokuta, Azure, Benin, Enugu, Ibadan Ikon-Ekpene, Ilorin, Jos, Maiduguri, Owerri and Zaria

First published 1976, reprinted 1981, 1982, 1985, 1988

Illustrated by Victor Oleh

Printed in Nigeria by Clarendon Press Ltd., 9, Ikosi Rd., Kept, Lagos. Tel:933859

Longman Nigeria Plc, Ikeja, Abeokuta, Akure, Benin, Enugu, Ibadan Ikon-Ekpene, Ilorin, Jos, Maiduguri, Owerri and Zaria

First published 1978, reprinted 1985, 1987, 1988, 1991

KMP Kawuriz & Manilas Publishers LTD. Onitsha, Anambra State.

First edition 1989, second edition 1993, third edition 2004

KMP Kawuriz & Manilas Publishers LTD. Onitsha, Anambra State.

First edition 1989, second edition 1993, third edition 2004

Exhibition guide, National Museum of Unity, 65 Abakaliki Road, Enugu-Nigeria

2006

Cover design by A.O. Opaleye

FOREWORD

'The National Museum of Unity houses some of the carefully selected master pieces of sculpture, tracing history of the great art of Nigerian ancient treasures. This museum showcases the people's history. It aims at presenting and interpreting the culture of the various ethnic groups in Nigeria, their uniqueness and divergences, particularly of the Igbo and other ethnic groups in and around the eastern region of Nigeria. In this way, unity and harmony are embraced and peace and progress are born and nurtured...'

By Luke Uka Uche

In this landmark study, Luke Uka Uche has demonstrated the relationship between the "spirit" of recent Nigerian politics and the orientation of the Nigerian mass media. What he has described so graphically and analysed so fastidiously in fact goes beyond mere "reciprocity"; the fact that the Nigerian Media are the way they are first because Nigerian society has been motivated by the forces of ethnicity and fuelled by aggressive partisanship; and the media, having imbibed of this influence, become vehicles for reinforcing the ethnicity thesis.

First published 1989

Published by Ashok Kumar Mittal, Concept publishing Company

Dedication

This book is dedicated to a Nigerian patriot, nationalist and the father of Nigerian journalism, Dr. NNAMDI AZIKIWE, The Owelle of Onitsha, the first indigenous Governor General and President of Nigeria; for his immense and selfless contributions to the making of the Nigerian nation and his struggles for the Nigerian independence, through his West African Pilot.

FOREWORD

'Nigeria's continuing quest for national identity has been indelibly marked by the character of her political history. The Nigerian case is undoubtedly a particular manifestation of the general malady which afflicts "nations" crafted by colonial adminastrators. Lack of consensus about the nature and goals of the postcolonial state and about the rules and modalities of political articulation among the indigineous elite who inherited the colonial burden, has made national development problematic, fostering political and economic instability...'

Gender, Migration, and Development in Africa by Sussie U.Aham-Okoro

Published by Lexington Books

FOREWORD

'This work on the dynamics of migration of Igbo women to the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area is a unique and much needed academic addition to knowledge on African women and their timeless sense of duty and commitment to their society. Through careful empirical and historical study, the book highlights the unyielding activism of Igbo women in all aspects of life. The study affirms the unique propensity of African/Igbo women to reinvent their identities, spaces, and activities that keep them engaged in promoting and supporting the development and well-being of their society both here in their country of immigration and their native society in Nigeria. Igbo women are seen organising to address personal and community issues at every level. One can observe that, in this sense, these Nigerian women of Igbo extraction are perhaps atypical in international immigrant service...'

by Gloria Chuku

African Studies: History, Politics, Economy and Culture

Edited by Molefi Asante, Temple University - A Routledge Series

Published in 2005

Introduction

'Serious and systematic study of the place and role of women in African history is a recent phenomenon, dating from the 1980s. Since then, gender has become an increasingly important analytical tool in the reconstruction of the histories of African societies. This study not only uses gender as an anaylitical tool but it also contributes to the pool of micro historical studies of African women. It investigates the role of Igbo women in the economic transformation of southern eastern Nigerian, from the genesis of British Colonial rule in 1900 to the dawn of independence in 1960.

Among Africanists and feminists, the Igbo-speaking wines if southeastern Nigeria are well known for their history of anti-colonial activism which was demonstrated in the 1929 War against British colonialism. Perplexed by the magnitude of the Women's War, the colonial government commissioned anthropologists/ethnographers to study the Igbo political system and the place of women in Igbo society...'

Edited by Gloria Chukka and Sussie U.Aham-Okoro

Published by Lexington Books

Summary:

This comprehensive study of the Nigeria-Biafra War through the lens of gender captures women's complex experiences and the valiant ways they carried out old and new responsibilities in wartime and postwar Nigeria. It fills a gap in war scholarship fifty years after the conflict by presenting women as embodiments of vulnerability and agency.

By Clifford N. Ugochukwu

FOREWORD

'A folktale is usually an anonymous traditional story transmitted orally from generation to generation, with the main purpose of explaining the origin of certain things or imparting some moral values, norms or lessons. It remains a very important type of Igbo real literature, alongside proverbs, songs, poems, riddles and words of wisdom ("words of the elders").

Storytelling was one of the major avenues of informal education in pre-colonial Igboland, i.e. before the advent of formal classroom education at the beginning of the 20th century. Before then, in the period we generally and becloudedly refer to as "the olden days", folktale sessions were frequent occasions, and usually organised in the community's village square in the evenings during moonlight gatherings and vigils...'

By Chidubem Iweka

University Press PLC Ibadan 2019

Reprinted 2008, 2014, 2019

This hauntingly engaging novel is a hypnotiser. Crafted with traditional story-telling pace, the novelist masterfully blends disparate realisms. From the prism of a timeless borderless world inhabited by the living and the dead, the natural and the extra-natural, the corporeal and the ethereal, magic and witchcraft, the gothic and the contemporary, Iweka explores the roots of fears, motives and choices.

By Chidubem Iweka

Published by Kraft Books Limited 2022

Chidubem Iweka studied Theatre Arts at California State University, Hayward and worked for a production company - Creative Associates, as a writer, composer, instrumentalist, artiste and repertoire.

He taught drama in two performing arts schools. As an accomplished novelist, playwright and poet, Iweka was the MD of Nigerian Mirror Newspapers for many years. He contributed to numberous articles as well. His novel, "The Ancient Curse", was nominated for the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Ken Saro-Wiwa Prose Prize. His stage play, August Inmates won nomination for NLNG's The Nigeria Prize for literature in 2018.

His books are used in many universities as literature texts. Iweka has written, produced and featured in a number of Nollywood movies. He is also a businessman with special interests in real estate. In 2011, Chidubem Iweka was crowned king of Obosi Ukwalla, a vast kingdom that stretches inland from the banks of the River Niger, in Anambra State of Nigeria.

By Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart first published 1958, No Longer at Ease first published 1960, Arrow of God first published 1964

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe's first novel, has received widespread critical acclaim since its first publication thirty years ago. It has sold over three million copies and has been translated into more than forty languages. No Longer at Ease, its sequel, won the Nigerian National trophy, while Arrow of God confirmed Achebe's standing as the founder of modern African fiction. These three novels, collected here in a single volume with a new introduction by the author, chronicle the story of the twentieth century West Africa.

By Buchi Emecheta

Published by Fontana Paperbacks

Buchi Emecheta was born of Ibiza parentage in Lagos, Nigeria. She came to England in 1962, since when she has lived in North London with her five children. She is a sociology graduate of London University and her writing includes radio and television plays, numerous articles for learned journals and magazines and nine novels. She is a member of the Advisory Council to the British Home Secretary on race and equality, and serves on the Arts Council of Great Britain. She was selected as one of the 1983's Best Young British Writers and is winner of several Literary Prizes including the New Statesman Jock Campbell Award.

Printed by Whitmont Press Ltd, UK

APU UK is a branch of the APU National formed in 1932 with the cardinal objectives of promoting love, peace, unity and understanding amongst Arondizougu people. APU offers the forum for all Arondizougu people residing in the UK to meet and discuss issues affecting the welfare and progress of Arondizougu people. It also hopes to encourage, promote the culture, tradition and is open to all peace loving people of Arondizougu origin.

FOREWORD

'...Proverbs represent a core aspect to the Igbo language; it is a rich source of knowledge, wisdom and is a very effective means of transmitting ancestral beliefs from on generation to another. Proverbs contain overall philosophical beliefs and experiences of the Igbos throughout the centuries and there is no known art among the Igbos that has been so greatly developed and learnt by the heart than proverbs...'

By Uzoma Nwosu, MD

'Chiology is the study of the Chi or 'energy summary' of an individual. It is based on the Igbo concept called the Chi which has been referred to as the 'personal god' of an individual (Ojike and Achebe). Chiology is performing a dual function: rehabilitating the ancient Igbo concept of the Chi, and also rehabilitating the Chi of individuals. The best way to conserve, preserve or rehabilitate a subject is to put it to daily use...'

Frank Willett, 261 illustrations, 61 in colour

Revised edition 1993 (Second edition)

In memory of my very good friend William Fagg who first taught me to deepen my enjoyment of African art by increasing my understanding of it

'The art of the Fans, the BaTeke, the Dakota and many other African peoples demonstrates extraordinary vigour and a brilliant sense of form. The substantial aesthetic impact their works had upon the development of the twentieth-century Western art - on Picasso, Derain, Braque and Modigliani among others- continues to this day...'