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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 307–329.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Anene Ejikeme Abstract This essay argues that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short story “Headstrong Historian” offers a woman’s perspective on the Igbo encounter with European colonialism, a history made famous by Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart who told the story from a male perspective...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 41–66.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., 1997). In my analysis of a matriarchal structure in Nnobi, an Igbo society, I have argued that traditional precolonial Nnobi matriarchy was an ideological superstructure whose ideas showed a connection between the matricentric production unit and the relations of production. All those who ate out...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 330–352.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in recent times. Writing of political organization in precolonial Nigeria, Okonjo mentions that, "In Nigerian society in general, and Igbo society in particular, women's lack ofinterest in political matters-or more accurately, their invisibility in present-day politics-is a legacy of the colonial past...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 338–358.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and the Lost Political Institutions of Igbo Women .” Canadian Journal of African Studies 6 , no. 2 : 165 – 81 . Vasquez Erica . 2014 . “ Living under Occupation in the Western Sahara: Women, Resistance and Self-Determination .” Working paper, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 54–77.
Published: 01 March 2006
... Africa, for example, critical reexaminations of gender relations in the precolonial past of major national groups, such as the Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, Eda, Akan, and Dogan, have already yielded and continue to yield many surprises. These groups may-on the surface-have patriarchal or patrilineal systems...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): v–vi.
Published: 01 March 2017
... with three essays from the Continent: essays that confront patriarchy head-on through different means. Anene Ejikeme's "The Women ofThingsFallApart examines the short story, "Headstrong Historian," by Chimamanda Adichie which, Ejikeme argues, provides a woman's perspective of the Igbo-colonialist encounter...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 236–240.
Published: 01 March 2006
...); and Omenuko, an English translation of the classic Igbo novel by Pita Nwana (2005). He recently completed a critical edition of the complete poetry of Christopher Okigbo and is coeditor ofThe ColumbiaAnthologyofAfticanLiterature (forthcoming). LAURA CHAKRAVARTY BOX is Assistant Professor ofTheater at Colby...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 195–208.
Published: 01 March 2006
..., Uhamiri,is not really an exclusive female deity, as some readers think she is. Uhamiris a sublimate of the great Igbo deity Ala, or Ani, in an aquatic habitat. She creates and protects equally. She dispenses her largesse equally. She does not discriminate. Her demands from man and woman are as severe...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 250–277.
Published: 01 March 2003
... was not living up to this expectation though it continued to extract revenues from them. The silences in the Commission of Enquiry testimonies and reports are equally compelling. During the women's war in 1929, Igbo women challenged the social and moral efficacy of taxing women, but taxing women as a principle...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 129–136.
Published: 01 March 2004
..., Alison. 2002. "Re-inventing Globalization for Women's Rights and Development." Re-inventing Globalization. Toronto: Association for Women's Rights in Development. Van Allen, Judith. 1976. '"Aba Riots' or Igbo 'Women's War'? Ideology, Stratification, and the Invisibility of Women." In Women in Africa...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Amadiume's Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society used her particular Igbo community to demonstrate that different gender/power dynamics operated that allowed women, if they had economic privilege, to have some of the rights assumed for men, thus recognizing some women's...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 163–183.
Published: 01 September 2018
... a temporary meltdown as she confides in Ifemelu about her hopes to secure marriage with one of two Igbo boyfriends in order to gain citizenship and economic advancement, seems to reflect on the gullibility of her pursuit in her final exchange with Ifemelu. Only after Ifemelu hands her payment and tip does...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 113–132.
Published: 01 September 2005
... time. For example, there can be more than one gender associated with biological sex, as in the case of female husbands and male daughters among the Igbo of southeastern Nigeria (Amadiume 1987). Other examples include practices of woman-to-woman marriage in parts of Kenya, which in some contexts blurs...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 117–149.
Published: 01 March 2006
... for good, they have put them back on, does anyone have an explanation for that?" (Hafez 1998, 24). 14. The idea of the female genitalia as something that must be covered and not beheld (by men) has resonance with its conceptualization among, say, the Igbo, who traditionally believe that the adult female...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2009
... feminist movements. Yetthere is a sense of distance, of token engagement rather than a deep, prolonged exchange between equals. Nnaemeka's isolated reference of the Igbo spirit figure nmanwuas an illustration of indigenous wisdom and complexity accomplishes too little; Rosenberg's totality of holistic...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 310–339.
Published: 01 December 2020
... there is a sense of distance, of token engagement rather than a deep, prolonged exchange between equals. Nnaemeka’s isolated reference of the Igbo spirit figure nmanwu as an illustration of indigenous wisdom and complexity accomplishes too little; Rosenberg’s totality of holistic religions assumes too much...
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