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African Cultural Values - Igbo Political Leadership in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1996 (Paperback)
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African Cultural Values - Igbo Political Leadership in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1996 (Paperback)
Series: African Studies
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Although numerous studies have been made of the Western educated
political elite of colonial Nigeria in particular, and of Africa in
general, very few have approached the study from a perspective that
analyzes the impacts of indigenous institutions on the lives,
values, and ideas of these individuals. This book is about the
diachronic impact of indigenous and Western agencies in the
upbringing, socialization, and careers of the colonial Igbo
political elite of southeastern Nigeria. The thesis argues that the
new elite manifests the continuity of traditions and culture and
therefore their leadership values and the impact they brought on
African society cannot be fully understood without looking closely
at their lived experiences in those indigenous institutions where
African life coheres. The key has been to explore this question at
the level of biography, set in the context of a carefully
reconstructed social history of the particular local communities
surrounding the elite figures. It starts from an understanding of
their family and village life, and moves forward striving to
balance the familiar account of these individuals in public life,
with an account of the ongoing influences from family, kinship, age
grades, marriage and gender roles, secret societies, the church,
local leaders and others. The result is not only a model of a new
approach to African elite history, but also an argument about how
to understand these emergent leaders and their peers as individuals
who shared with their fellow Africans a dynamic and complex set of
values that evolved over the six decades of colonialism.
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