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Zina Saro-Wiwa: Did You Know We Taught Them How to Dance? is the
first publication on the work of Zina Saro-Wiwa, a British-Nigerian
video artist and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. Occupying the space
between documentary and performance, Saro-Wiwa's videos,
photographs, and sound produced in the Niger Delta region of
southeastern Nigeria from 2013-2015 explore folklore, masquerade
traditions, religious practices, food, and Nigerian popular
aesthetics. Engaging Niger Delta residents as subjects and
collaborators, Saro-Wiwa cultivates strategies of psychic survival
and performance, testing contemporary art's capacity to transform
and to envision new concepts of environment and environmentalism.
Known for decades for corruption and environmental degradation, the
Niger Delta is one of the largest oil producing regions of the
world, and until 2010 provided the United States with a quarter of
its oil. Saro-Wiwa returns to this contested region-the place of
her birth-to tell new stories. Featuring a guest foreword by
Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa; essays by Stephanie LeMenager, Amy L. Powell,
and Taiye Selasi; an interview with the artist by Chika
Okeke-Agulu; and recipes created by the artist.
The Izon of the Niger Delta is a global history of the Izon, Ijo,
or Ijaw people from their homelands in the Niger Delta, through
Nigeria, the West and Central African coastlands, and in the Africa
diaspora into Europe, the America's and the Caribbean. It is a
preliminary study which raises questions and opens ground for
further research. The book provides chapters that take an overview
of issues on the environment of the Niger Delta, an analysis of the
Ijo population, the language, culture, resources, history and
linkage to the rest of Nigeria and the world. In effect these
chapters provide a synopsis of the Ijo in the past and their
situation in the present.
The Practice of History in Africa offers a history of African
historiography from an African perspective. It attempts to answer
some of the questions concerning the practice of history from the
civilizations of ancient Egypt, through the varied cultures and
regions of the continent to contemporary times. The book presents
the philosophy of the oral tradition as it co-existed and co-exists
with the written traditions of ancient Egypt, the Islamic
tradition, and the western European tradition of historiography.
The first title in a planned series of classic texts, written and
published in Africa, on the history and culture of the Niger Delta.
Long out of print, this book brings together oral traditional
evidence and all other available historical material including the
work of the eminent historian of the Niger Delta, Kenneth Owuka
Dike. The study is an attempt to reconstruct the early history of
the Ijo people of the Niger Delta, from the nineteenth century,
using their own mostly oral traditions. The work has been
considerably revised and updated to include material and research
conclusions from the ongoing Ijo History Project on Niger Delta
history chaired by the author.
The contemporary reader probably best remembers the State of Bonny
for the 1967 capturing of Nigeria's main oil port terminal from the
secessionists by Federal Government forces - a local victory
against military and economic blockades. This work is largely the
result of the reinterpretaion of oral tradition and nineteenth
century manuscripts in the light of recent research. In bringing
together records of nineteenth century diplomatic relations of
Bonny with foreign and neighbouring states, the study traces the
significance of Bonny from the first Portuguese settlers and the
Atlantic slave trade to the increasing British dominance in the
nineteenth century, the rudiments and role of the European trading
community in the twentieth century and independent Nigeria.
This handbook sets out the relevant legislation, and explains the
rationale behind the policy. It presents the legal framework of the
local government system, and discusses the pertaining acts of
parliament. The areas covered are: the legal framework for local
government; the local governments act, 1997; good governance
indicators; financial management; intergovernmental fiscal
relationships; accountability; human resource management; and
procurement at local government level.
J. A. Green (1873-1905) was one of the most prolific and
accomplished indigenous photographers to be active in West Africa.
This beautiful book celebrates Green's photographs and opens a new
chapter in the early photographic history of Africa. Soon after
photography reached the west coast of Africa in the 1840s, the
technology and the resultant images were disseminated widely,
appealing to African elites, European residents, and travelers to
the region. Responding to the need for more photographs, expatriate
and indigenous photographers began working along the coasts,
particularly in major harbor towns. Green, whose identity remained
hidden behind his English surname, maintained a photography
business in Bonny along the Niger Delta. His work covered a wide
range of themes including portraiture, scenes of daily and ritual
life, commerce, and building. Martha G. Anderson, Lisa Aronson, and
the contributors have uncovered 350 of Green's images in archives,
publications, and even albums that celebrated colonial
achievements. This landmark book unifies these dispersed images and
presents a history of the photographer and the area in which he
worked.
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