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About the origins of Agulu - Awka, a quarter in Awka town of Anambra State, Nigeria.
The Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebi fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. Okechukwu Nwafor’s volume Aso ebi investigates the practice in the cosmopolitan urban setting of Lagos, and argues that the visual and consumerist hype typical of the late capitalist system feeds this unique fashion practice. The book suggests that dress, fashion, aso ebi, and photography engender a new visual culture that largely reflects the economics of mundane living. Nwafor examines the practice’s societal dilemma, whereby the solidarity of aso ebi is dismissed by many as an ephemeral transaction. A circuitous transaction among photographers, fashion magazine producers, textile merchants, tailors, and individual fashionistas reinvents aso ebi as a product of cosmopolitan urban modernity. The results are a fetishization of various forms of commodity culture, personality cults through mass followership, the negotiation of symbolic power through mass-produced images, exchange value in human relationships through gifts, and a form of exclusion achieved through digital photo editing. Aso ebi has become an essential part of Lagos cosmopolitanism: as a rising form of a unique visual culture it is central to the unprecedented spread of a unique West African fashion style that revels in excessive textile overflow. This extreme dress style is what an individual requires to transcend the lack imposed by the chaos of the postcolonial city.
Attempts to understand why African and Americans are over-represented in United States crime statistics have been made complex by the existence of a multiplicity of explanations. Every adult in the United States seems to know what causes crime, and is prepared to present some seasoned argument in support of their view. Because of the existence of this divergence, attempts to device a viable format for solving either the crime problem, the discrimination problem or the over representation problem continues to be difficult. Important aspects of authentic jurisprudence that acknowledge the need to examine a victim's contribution to the criminal event, retributive justice and collective responsibility, are essential attributes of traditional African culture. These attributes are conspicuously absent in the official social control systems that currently exist in the United States. This book suggests that to reduce or eliminate African American involvement in crime therefore, it is necessary to incorporate those attributes of equity and justice, which are essential components of the traditional legal systems of their ancestors into our official social control systems. Such incorporation will help to reconnect African Americans with their ancestral lgbo culture, reinforce their knowledge of African history, strengthen their self esteem and encourage the development of pride in their African heritage. It will also help to reduce their involvement as victims or participants in anti social behavior, and eventually solve the overreprentation problem.
A juvenile, once exiled by his mother in order to save his life from a usurper King-his own uncle- now returns to his homeland thirty-five years later, with internalized Christian and English values that challenged his people’s customary standards and immemorial customs protected by the King. In the confrontations that ensued, the usurper King lost. A story of the mystical, spiritual, and prophecy; Lamentations of My Father, teaches courage and the relevance of belief in a Supreme Being and transcendental reality. Based on a true story, Dr. Ebbe’s novel is a testament to the impossibilities of our world. About the Author Obi N. Ignatius Ebbe, Ph.D., professionally addressed as Dr. Obi N. I. Ebbe, was born in 1938 as the ninth son of the legendary “Ebbe.” He was a professor of criminology, sociology, and criminal justice at various universities in the United States for forty years including the State University of New York (SUNY) College at Brockport and The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC). He was a head of Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Geography at UTC. Dr. Ebbe received the University of London’s General Certificate of Education (GCE), Ordinary Level in six subjects and GCE Advanced Level in three subjects. With credits from the University of London, he graduated from Western Michigan University in two and a half years and received a master’s degree in his fourth year. He received a PhD in Sociology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1981. Dr. Ebbe has published numerous articles in referred academic journals. He has published eight books, including Comparative and International Criminal Justice Systems, State Crimes Around the World, and Broken Back Axle. Professor Ebbe is a recognized expert in political criminology and international criminal justice systems. He received a certificate from Harvard University Medical School Continuing Education Department in 1993 on “Abuse and Victimization in Life Span Perspective, Trauma, and Memory: Clinical and Legal Dimensions”, and a certificate on Criminal Law and Justice from Oxford Round Table, University of Oxford, England in 2006. He was an annual consultant of the International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council (ISPAC) of the UN Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programmes (1998-2015). Dr. Ebbe is a recognized honored lifetime member of Cambridge WHO's WHO Registry of Executives and Professional 2007–2008 Edition. Also, Ebbe is a Distinguished Listee of the 2019 Marquis WHO’s WHO in America. He was an institutional soccer player of the 1960s and a lawn tennis amateur. He has two young daughters: Nneka and Njideka.
This volume traces the theme of the loss of language and culture in numerous post-colonial contexts. It establishes that the aphasia imposed on the indigenous is but a visible symptom of a deeper malaise — the mismatch between the symbiotic relation nurtured by the indigenous with their environment and the idea of development put before them as their future. The essays here show how the cultures and the imaginative expressions of indigenous communities all over the world are undergoing a phase of rapid depletion. They unravel the indifference of market forces to diversity and that of the states, unwilling to protect and safeguard these marginalized communities. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of cultural and literary studies, linguistics, sociology and social anthropology, as well as tribal and indigenous studies.