Social and cultural Identity of an African Society - Nicholas, Okpe
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Cultural identity is not only a political matter, but entails every aspect of daily life. As everywhere, colonialism in Nigeria is viewed as a distortion of genuine socio-cultural system. Colonial politics contributed to the fall of social and moral values so that corruption, for example, is viewed by political opportunists as a normal way of life. This is one of the reasons why the social-political configuration of modern Nigeria has little recognition by the indigenous people.
Through this work, the author, using the ethnic Igala people, succeeds in proposing answers to the question of a…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Cultural identity is not only a political matter, but entails every aspect of daily life. As everywhere, colonialism in Nigeria is viewed as a distortion of genuine socio-cultural system. Colonial politics contributed to the fall of social and moral values so that corruption, for example, is viewed by political opportunists as a normal way of life. This is one of the reasons why the social-political configuration of modern Nigeria has little recognition by the indigenous people.

Through this work, the author, using the ethnic Igala people, succeeds in proposing answers to the question of a sensible national politics which put historical and traditional institutions of the various ethnic hegemonies into consideration: What are those things required for a fruitful and peaceful co-existence in a multi-ethnic society like Nigeria? ...
Prof. Dr. Dr. G. Droesser

Aus dem Inhalt:
PART ONE
Nigeria and Igala Socio-Cultural World

CHAPTER ONE
Nigeria at a Glance

CHAPTER TWO
Igala World and Tradition of History

PART TWO
Igala World-View, Normative Principles and Religious Ideas

CHAPTER THREE
Igala World-View and Behavioural Pattern

CHAPTER FOUR
Igala Culture, Religious Ideas and Contact with Christianity

PART THREE
Igala Socio-Political Life and the Nigerian Social and Political Systems

CHAPTER FIVE
The Igala Social and Political Organizations

CHAPTER SIX
Ethnicity and Nigerian Social Politics
Autorenporträt
Okpe Nicholas studied philosophy from 1989 to 1994 at St. Thomas Aquinas' Major Seminary, Makurdi, Nigeria and Theology in Fulda, Germany from 1994 to 1998. He was ordained a catholic priest for the diocese of Idah, Nigeria, in 1998 and did pastoral work at St. Boniface Cathedral, Idah. From 2001-2005 doctoral studies in at the University of Würzburg, Germany with a dissertation in January, 2005.