Ibobio Jews of Nigeria
Author : Nabi Meleki M. Umoh-Faithmann
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 25,53 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Ibibio (African people)
ISBN :
Jewish Identity Among the Igbo of Nigeria
Author : Daniel Lis
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 13,56 MB
Release : 2014-05
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9781592219605
Book Description
Among the 20 to 30 million Igbo people in Nigeria there is a widespread belief that the Igbo originated in ancient Israel. Recently a number of Igbo Jewish communities have been established in Nigeria. Although some Igbo have made their way to Israel, the Israeli public is largely unaware of the fact that that there are in addition of 20 to 30 million people in Nigeria that are called by some, 'the Jews of West Africa.' This book offers for the first time an in-depth study and a genealogical history of the Igbo's long term narrative of a possible Jewish origin.
Jews of Nigeria
Author : William F. S. Miles
Publisher :
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781558765665
Book Description
Africa's newest Jewish community of note is in Nigeria, where upwards of twenty thousand Igbos are commonly claimed to have adopted Judaism. Bolstered by customs recalling an Israelite ancestry, but embracing rabbinic Judaism, they are also the world's first 'Internet Jews'. William Miles has spent over three decades conducting research in West Africa. He shares life stories from this spiritually passionate community, as well as his own Judaic reflections as he celebrates Hanukka and a bar mitzvah with 'Jubos' in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria.
The Hebrew Evidence of Nigerian Jews
Author : Innocent C. Agu
Publisher :
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 2021
Category :
ISBN : 9789789832583
Book Description
The Igbos and Israel
Author : Remy Ilona
Publisher : Remy Ilona
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 19,2 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938609008
Book Description
Jewish Igbo scholar Remy Ilona presents and analyzes Judaic history, practices and concept within the Igbo culture of Nigeria. Remy has been honored and supported by Kulanu, an American Jewish organization that assists dispersed Jewish communities internationally.
Cow Without Tail
Author : Godwin Boswell Akubue
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 31,30 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1434915395
Book Description
The Black Jews of Africa
Author : Edith Bruder
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 16,10 MB
Release : 2008-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 019533356X
Book Description
"This book presents, one by one, the different groups of Black Jews in Western central, eastern, and southern Africa and the ways in which they have used and imagined their oral history and traditional customs to construct a distinct Jewish identity. It explores the ways in which Africans have interacted with the ancient mythological sub-strata of both western and African ideas of Judaism."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Understanding Modern Nigeria
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 31,81 MB
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108837972
Book Description
An introduction to the politics and society of post-colonial Nigeria, highlighting the key themes of ethnicity, democracy, and development.
Nigerian Gods
Author : Erubu Otobo
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 13,30 MB
Release : 2023-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9786020464
Book Description
Nigerian Gods is an enlightening and sobering review of the impact of the introduction of the three main Abrahamic religions on Nigeria's traditional religions, culture and way of life, viewed through the prism of its eleven largest and two of the smallest ethnic groups. Kome Otobo, gives here a factual and acute description and presentation of the main characteristics of the major ethnic groups in Nigeria - historical background and socio-political structures, demography, traditional religions, differing impacts of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and major occupations and modes of existence - which should serve to propel all to a fuller assessment of the complexities of the directions which a Post-Covid-19 World is tending rapidly, ethnically and racially exploited differences jumping to the fore to question erstwhile dominant political ideologies and political arrangements based on them.
Nigeria and the Nation-State
Author : John Campbell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,97 MB
Release : 2024-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1538197812
Book Description
Nigeria, despite being the African country of greatest strategic importance to the U.S., remains poorly understood. John Campbell explains why Nigeria is so important to understand in a world of jihadi extremism, corruption, oil conflict, and communal violence. The revised edition provides updates through the recent presidential election.
