The Art of Nigerian Women

The Art of Nigerian Women
Author: Chukwuemeka Bosah
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Art, Nigerian
ISBN: 9780996908450

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The Art of Nigerian Women by Chukwuemeka Bosah is a tightly packaged tome--an astonishingly delightful companion to a meme that was broached in the author's A Celebration of Modern Nigerian Art: 101 Nigerian Artists, published in 2010. In the current volume, Bosah marshals the intellectual capacity of some of the best scholars and curatorial impresarios in the field to contextualize the diversity of works of the artists featured. This work is a feat that must be acknowledged by students of Nigerian art for a number of reasons. First, this book contributes significantly to our knowledge of Nigerian art by its lasered focus on Nigerian women. Second, the author brings to the fore, in the process, a smorgasbord of creative enactments and analyses in an assortment of media by our womenfolk. Third, while Nigeria now boasts of a budding tribe of scholars on the visual arts, this is the first time, to my knowledge, that a book of this type has been published. And this brings us to the fourth reason: this book is the irrefutable demonstration of the maxim about lions having their own historians to obviate distortions that hunters would bring to the history of the hunt. This is a pioneering work, one that deserves a prominent place on the shelves of corporate, institutional, college, and personal libraries. Bosah deserves our admiration for the courage and resources ploughed into this work.

Shaping Our Struggles

Shaping Our Struggles
Author: Obioma Nnaemeka
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Women
ISBN: 9781592217465

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In analysing a range of materials that testify to the wide spectrum of women's experiences in Nigeria, this groundbreaking collection seeks to draw attention to neglected aspects of women's lives in Nigerian society as a whole. Exploring the historical, developmental and socio-cultural experiences of women across Nigeria's cultures, it reappraises their role as historical actors and helps to facilitate a more encompassing view of their place in society and their still underestimated contribution to social development.

Facade

Facade
Author: Ebiye Lavonne Garmel-Urumedji
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2016-07-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1532001525

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Nigeria is nicknamed the giant of Africa because of her large population. Without a doubt, her dense population results in cultural diversity with customs and traditions spread throughout her landscape. Despite the revolution sweeping the globe, certain customs and traditions still persist and are practiced even by the educated of her citizens. In Faade, author Ebiye Lavonne Garmel-Urumedji offers fifteen unique stories of women who are currently passing and have passed through painful challenges brought about by these long-standing customs and traditions. The selections tell of child marriage, female circumcision, emotional and physical abuse, polygamy, Abiku phenomenon, and more. The collection provides insight into the lives of these women who have learned from a tender age to hide their pain and keep their lives private. Told from the heart, Faade shares how some of them overcame their challenges, while other tales narrate how some women wallowed in their misery and allowed their sorrow to swallow them up. Meant to instill positivity into the lives of Nigerian women, this collection offers insight into challenges many face in todays world.

She Called Me Woman

She Called Me Woman
Author: Azeenarh Mohammed
Publisher:
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2018
Genre: Gender expression
ISBN: 9781911115595

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A brave and ground-breaking anthology of queer women's life stories

For Women and the Nation

For Women and the Nation
Author: Cheryl Johnson-Odim
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780252066139

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Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was a Nigerian feminist who fought for suffrage and equal rights for her countrywomen long before the second wave of the women's movement in the United States. She also joined the struggle for Nigerian independence as an activist in the anticolonial movement.For Women and the Nation is the story of this courageous woman, one of a handful of full-length biographies of African women activists. It will be welcomed by students of women's studies, African history, and biography, as well as by opponents of the Nigerian military regime that has held one of her sons, Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti, in solitary confinement since August 1995.CHERYL JOHNSON-ODIM, chair and associate professor of history at Loyola University in Chicago, is coeditor of Expanding the Boundaries of Women's History. NINA EMMA MBA, senior lecturer in history at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, is the author of Nigerian Women Mobilized and Ayo Rosijc.

The Female King of Colonial Nigeria

The Female King of Colonial Nigeria
Author: Nwando Achebe
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2011-02-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0253222486

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While providing critical perspectives on women, gender, sex and sexuality, and the colonial encounter, she considers how it was possible for this woman to take on the office and responsibilities of a traditionally male role.

Dear Naija Girl

Dear Naija Girl
Author: Cynthia Tasha Osajibenedict
Publisher:
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2021-05-07
Genre:
ISBN:

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Dear Naija Girl, is a blend of stories, and experiences, highlighting the ordeals of women and what it means to be female in Nigeria. It opens up its readers to what women go through in this part of the world to be successful and also be heard or given a voice in their individual spheres. Asides from sharing true life stories of several women, it also highlights the struggles of women in Nigeria go through even when they appear successful, how they have to constantly defend their success in the judging and preying eyes of the society they come from. Amidst all, it offers a way forward.Enjoy the read.

Nigerian Women in Cultural, Political and Public Spaces

Nigerian Women in Cultural, Political and Public Spaces
Author: Mobolanle Sotunsa
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2023-12-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 303140582X

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This book will provide empirical engagements of African women in the private and public spaces and their adaptations, alterations and and integration of the private and public spaces. This approach is contrary to most existing studies which may not necessarily provide contextual and empirical evidences of the debates about the spaces of women or interrogate both the private and public spaces in a single volume. This book will offer a novel insight into gender and power dynamics, especially as it relates to the cultural spaces, private spaces and public spaces which African women occupy and subjugate. The fourteen papers in this book critically examine the African women in different positions within the private and public spaces, the strong inhibiting presence of patriarchy, and the resistance women display to empower themselves.