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Between the Sensuous and Sacred: A Postcolonial Reading of African Spirituality, Sexuality, and “The Erotic” Through Mbari Art in Igboland, Nigeria
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Meridians (2025) 24 (1): 63–88.
Published: 01 April 2025
...Bright Alozie Abstract Mbari (or mbari houses ), found in some parts of eastern Nigeria, are ritual houses filled with colorful tableaux of life-sized painted figures representing Igbo beliefs and deities, especially Ala, the Earth Mother/goddess. While many Mbari structures and art focus...
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Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme’s The Reign of Wazobia
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 330–352.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Kanika Batra Abstract Nigerian authors have consistently and effectively critiqued insidious connections between masculinity, political power, religious fundamentalism, and capitalist interests. The unstable political structures in Nigeria since the 1970s have led to such critiques. This essay...
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Safe Motherhood Initiative: Whither African Indigenous Birthing Knowledge?
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 263–294.
Published: 01 April 2024
.... Despite the campaign for sole reliance on SMI, Africa’s MMR remains the highest compared to other regions. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, also has the third-highest MMR in the world as of 2020. This failure of SMI to reduce MMR for Nigeria and Africa more broadly calls for the inclusion...
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Beyond the Spectacular: Contextualizing Gender Relations in the Wake of the Boko Haram Insurgency
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 246–268.
Published: 01 November 2018
... relations that surface in the wake of the Boko Haram insurgency. Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 Boko Haram spectacular violence visibility gender politics In this essay, I focus on the Boko Haram insurgency in North East Nigeria, interrogating which aspects of gender relations...
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Saving Nigerian Girls: A Critical Reflection on Girl-Saving Campaigns in the Colonial and Neoliberal Eras
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 309–324.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Abosede George Abstract This essay discusses girl-saving campaigns in Nigerian history, focusing on the two that have been most extensively documented: the girl hawker project of the early twentieth century, which climaxed with the 1943 passage of the first hawking ban in Nigeria...
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Gender and (Militarized) Secessionist Movements in Africa: An African Feminist’s Reflections
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 338–358.
Published: 01 November 2018
...-dominated secessionist movements in order to garner their own social and political power. Using case studies from Anglophone Cameroon, Western Sahara, Cabinda Province (Angola), and Biafra (Nigeria), the essay historicizes and outlines a new analytical framework that explores women’s multifaceted...
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Picturing Herself in Africa: Haiti, Diaspora, and the Visual Folkloric
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 348–373.
Published: 01 October 2023
... on folklore to contextualize her image-based archive on Haiti, the Belgian Congo, and Nigeria, the author proposes that Comhaire-Sylvain’s visual catalog is rendered legible through her undeveloped images taken in Africa. Tracing Comhaire-Sylvain’s contortions in front of and behind the camera, the author...
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Taxation, Women, and the Colonial State: Egba Women's Tax Revolt
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 250–277.
Published: 01 March 2003
... of the women's organization that led the revolt, Mrs. Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, is known throughout Nigeria. She was one of the few women at the forefront of nationalist politics in the 1940s and 195os.1 This tax revolt had several distinctive features. First, it combined modern and traditional methods of protest...
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About the Contributors
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 236–240.
Published: 01 March 2006
.... She is an Adviser for the United Nations' study on children and war and for the UN report on the impact of conflict on women. Born in Nigeria, MARCIA KURE has had eight one-person shows and over forty exhibitions in Nigeria, Germany, the United States, the Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, Japan...
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The Women of Things Fall Apart , Speaking from a Different Perspective: Chimamanda Adichie’s Headstrong Storytellers
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 307–329.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in place for women to organize and to seek redress from men-whether husbands or community leaders-who they felt had wronged them. The Women's War of1929-1930 saw thousands of women ANENEEJIKEME THE WOMEN OF "THINGS FALL APART" 309 rise up against British colonial rule over much of southeastern Nigeria...
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Feminist or Simply Feminine?: Reflections on the Works of Nana Asmā'u, a Nineteenth-Century West African Woman Poet, Intellectual, and Social Activist
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 54–77.
Published: 01 March 2006
..." refers to the dynasty of the great Islamic reformer Shaykh 'Uthman b. Muhammad Fodiye (1754-1817)-Asma'u's father-whose early nineteenth-century jihad resulted in the radical transformation of the old Habe, or Hausa, states of present-day northern Nigeria from a domain of crass corruption...
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Feminisms in African Hip Hop
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 383–400.
Published: 01 November 2018
... did not emerge until a decade after the first male artists, women have always been participants in hip hop culture as rappers, DJs, graffiti artists, and break-dancers. Other songs came from Nigeria (14 percent), Kenya (11 percent), and Ghana (10 percent). Other countries included in the study were...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 219–231.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., Nigeria, and North America. It rendered our voices hearable across the different realities and long distances that often make this type of work challenging. The conversation allowed us to reflect on the feelings of solidarity, community, comradeship, friendship, affection, and wordless connection...
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Bodies, Choices, Globalizing Neocolonial Enchantments: African Matriarchs and Mammy Water
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 41–66.
Published: 01 March 2002
... and modernity in the African context. Culturing Girls-Zambia and Nigeria Like many colonized African scholars, I have found myself working with the methodology ofintellectual archeological digging. This is in order to recover disqualified, submerged, subordinated, or appropriated African knowledges, especially...
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What Our Grandmothers Knew: A Few Words of Greeting from the Editor
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): v–x.
Published: 01 March 2003
... in Nepal"; and Judith Byfield's "Taxation, Women, and the Colonial State: Egba Women's Protest in Abeokuta (Nigeria), 1918-1948." In these four pieces, the authors critique State repression and through such critiques advance models for empowerment. Barriteau's essay makes use of her position as a political...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 April 2024
... South maternal, midwifery, or community knowledge and practices by recounting her own experiences as a forty-something-year-old Nigerian mother of four who devoted her “feminist activism for reproductive health and human rights in Nigeria . . . [to] making Western maternal healthcare available...
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Are We All Feminists? The Global Black Hair Industry and Marketplace in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 163–183.
Published: 01 September 2018
... Oyewumi (1997) offers greater nuance to the" Africana" perspective by turning to language for evidence of an" Africana" worldview. Using sociolinguistic analysis, Oyewumi argues that in precolonial Nigeria, women and men performed interdependent roles in the community, divorced of gender hierarchies...
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Durable Dreams: Dissent, Critique, and Creativity in Faat Kiné and Moolaadé
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 177–194.
Published: 01 March 2006
..., no matter the generic understandings ofit as opposition to the norm, is, in reality, hardly uniformly conceived or expressed. Here is a cogent example. For nearly three weeks in July 2002, a group of about three hundred unarmed local, largely middle-aged mothers, from Nigeria's oil-producing Delta regions...
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Meridians (2025) 24 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2025
... ’ explicit interest in Indigenous feminist knowledge production and knowledge producers has inspired a noticeable increase in these submissions, reviewers, and readers. The features in this “IFAW 2” issue address Indigenous issues in Australia, Canada, China, Chukchi/former Soviet Union, Mexico, Nigeria...
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Editor's Introduction
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): v–ix.
Published: 01 September 2018
... presages her return to her true love in Nigeria after years living in the United States. Yet that return, while liberating in some ways, is in no way free of the costs and constraints of patriarchy's power and prerogatives. Much like the essays in this volume, the memoir, counterpoint, media matters piece...
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