Research Catalog

Title

Myth, history and society : the collected works of Adiele Afigbo / edited by Toyin Falola.

Author

Afigbo, A. E. (Adiele Eberechukwu)

Publication

Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

Falola, Toyin.

Description

viii, 634 pages; 23 cm

Subjects

• Nigeria > Historiography
• Africa > Historiography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Afigbo's scholarship : an introduction / Toyin Falola and Matthew Heaton -- Historians, historiography and historical interpretations / Chima J. Korieh -- Africanizing knowledge : the burden of academic historiography / Adebayo Oyebade -- Eastern Nigerian historiography -- The idea of Igbo history -- Ibibio origin and migrations : a critique of methodology -- Mono-causality and African historiography : the case of Efik society and international commerce -- The "Bini mirage" and the history of south-central Nigeria -- Oral tradition and the history of segmentary societies -- Oral tradition and historical explanation : a case study from central southern Nigeria -- The anthropology and historiography of central-south Nigeria before and since Igbo Ukwu -- War and historical explanation in eastern Nigeria -- The Aro phenomenon in the historiography and sociology of southeastern Nigeria -- Oral tradition and history in eastern Nigeria -- Southeastern Nigeria, the Niger-Benue confluence and the Benue in the pre-colonial period : some issues of historiography -- Ancestral Igbo religion and cosmos and the idea of world religion -- Some thoughts on the teaching of history in Nigeria -- Myth, society and history -- Fact and myth in Nigerian historiography -- History and national development : the example of Nigeria -- History, archaeology and the schools in Nigeria -- Oral tradition and the political process in pre-colonial Nigeria -- Textile art, culture and history in southern Nigeria -- Myth, history and national orientation in Nigeria -- History as statecraft -- Of men and war, women and history -- A reasessment of the historiography of the colonial period -- On the poverty of contemporary African historiography -- Monocausal explanations in african history : a prevalent distortion -- K.O. Dike and the African historical renascence -- Colonial historiography -- African studies : an epistemology revisited -- The Ibadan school of history : a comment -- The evolution of historical consciousness in Africa and its implications for the development process -- Ugwu Isi Oji or the Blackman in the context of global civilization -- Black Africa's intellectual elite and the challenge of globalization -- The Blackman, history and responsibility -- Beelzebub on reparation for the African slave trade : contestations and refutations -- Towards Africa without borders : Socrates, Dike and Black Africa's whoring elites.

ISBN

• 1592214193 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781592214198 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1592214207 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781592214204 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005023133
• 99932999377

OCLC

• 61361536
• ocm61361536\
• SCSB-5324709

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries