Urban population growth in Nigeria—in both absolute and relative terms—has been supplemented by opportunities and challenges for urban dwellers. Nigerian cities have functioned as the engines of economic growt
Nigerian Women Mobilized: Women's Political Activ- ity in Southern Nigeria, 1900–1965. Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Medie, P.A. 2013. Fighting gender-based violence: The women's move- ment and the enforcement of rape law in Liberia. African Affairs,...
In Jefferey Meyers’s critical essay titled "Culture and History in Things Fall Apart,” he discusses both the positive and negative aspects of tribal life throughout the book. In doing so, Meyers points out that the Igbo people are cruel and that the white men colonizing Umuofia are helpin...
Are there beliefs you’ve long held, which still hold constant when you think about the structure of China’s political system and its economy? In other words, what do you think you know about China? In a deep, true sense. And what are the areas of your knowledge about China where ...
James Watson, one of three scientists to co-discover DNA structure, has auctioned off the 1962 Nobel Prize medal he received for the achievement; Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov paid $4.8 million for the medal but then returned it to Watson ...
Dr. C. Kingston Ekeke
As the nonslave trade began to flourish, so, too, did the Nigerian economy. A new economy based on raw materials, agricultural products, and locally manufactured goods saw the growth of a new class of Nigerian merchants. These merchants were heavily influenced by Western ways. Many soon became...
. Nigeria's national flag, believed to have been designed by Taiwo Akinkunmi—a Nigerian student in London, consists of a field of green, white, and green, divided into three equal parts. Green represents the agricultural richness of the nation, while the white stands for unity and peace....
As an intellectual construct,Capitalwas a masterpiece. But, like some other intellectual masterpieces, it was an elaborately sophisticated structure erected on the foundation of a primitive misconception. ...In the realm of ideas in general, the Marxian vision -- including his theory of history -...
The core structure of ujamaa is the traditional extended family and clan structure of most ethnic groups, which provides a framework for mutual assistance and cooperation. It was believed this structure would provide the foundation for socialist production. In practice, the forced resettlement of ...