Book
Anioma: a social history of the Western Igbo people
Ohio University Press • Athens • Published In 1994 • Pages:
By: Ohadike, Don C..
Abstract
This document presents a social history of the Anioma people of the western Igbo culture area of Nigeria from approximately the tenth to the twentieth centuries A.D. Ohadike describes in the book '…how certain decentralized (or small scale) African societies like the Igbos funtioned in the precolonial periods, how their settlements grew from a few individuals to tens of thousands of people, how they admitted and integrated outsiders into the host communities, how they responded to the opportunities and crises generated by both internal African developments and external world political and economic forces, and how they made the transition from the traditional to the 'modern' market economy' (p. xix). The Atlantic slave trade is also discussed in the text in reference to the Anioma. The author believes that it was not the slave trade itself that caused so many problems for the people, but its effects after the trade was ended. He also describes the response of the Anioma to the British colonial conquest of Nigeria, and how they adjusted to the indirect rule system.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2003
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Western Africa
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Types
- Indigenous Person
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2001
- Field Date
- ca. 1970s-1980s
- Coverage Date
- 900 A.D. - twentieth century
- Coverage Place
- Anioma Igbo, western Igbo culture area, Nigeria
- Notes
- Don C. Ohadike
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-242)
- LCCN
- 93031029
- LCSH
- Igbo (African people)