Film And Video Resources For African Studies: Catalogue Keywords Nigeria, ijo, ritual, women, marriage vast mineral resources, while theindigenous people have and the many social problems which the peoples of South http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/IAS/filmcat.htm
Extractions: Film and Video Catalogue This section of the catalogue lists titles from the main Film and Video Catalogue of Emory's holdings for African Studies. The catalogue also includes sections that list New Acquisitions to Emory's collections since September 1999 and titles that are currently On Order Film and Video Catalogue About the United Nations (videocassette: 15 min.) [1990] Abstract: An overview summarizing the other six programs in this series, particularly noting the westernization of some tribal cultures and a new awakening of ancient tradition among many tribes. Includes material on Dogon. Keywords: overview, social change, history. Africa (4 videocassettes: 114 minutes/ea) [1984]
The Trouble With Nigeria Is Simply And Squarely A Failure Of Major religions, 50% Muslim, 40% Christian, 10% indigenous religions. Hausaspeakingpeoples can be traced back more than a In fact, the ijo people who lived in http://www.uncc.edu/stwalker/nigeria.htm
Extractions: Size 823,770 km (about twice the size of California) Population growth Infant mortality 69.46 per 1,000 births Life expectancy Literacy Major religions 50% Muslim, 40% Christian, 10% indigenous religions GDP per capita $300, $820 PPP Economic growth Currency $1=95 Naira (29 October 1999) Chapter Outline A New Democracy? A New Democracy? On 29 May 1999, Olusegun Obasanjo was sworn in as the first president of Nigerias newest republic. Like Nelson Mandelas inauguration in South Africa five years earlier, the world was watching the new government carefully. Nigeria is, after all, Africas largest country with over one million people (no one knows for sure how many Nigerians there are, since no census has been conducted for years, for reasons that will become clear later in the chapter). It is also has extensive oil reserves which should also make it one of the richest countrys in Africa. However, as the statement by award-winning novelist, Chinua Achebe, suggests, Nigerias history has been plagued by troubles of many sorts. On the day of Obasanjos inauguration, most observers focused on the fact that the country had been ruled by the military for more than half of its 39 years as an independent country. And, despite its oil and other natural resources, the average Nigerian was worse off than in 1960 when the country gained its independence.
THE PRICE OF OIL federal governments.230 A number of indigenous rulers of 227 Ijaw (sometimes spelledIjo), has four main an alliance with the Northern peoples Congress (NPC http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/nigeria/Nigew991-06.htm
Extractions: VI. OIL COMPANIES AND THE OIL PRODUCING COMMUNITIES The coming of the oil industry has transformed the local economy of the oil producing communities. Although the changes are not as profound as those among previously uncontacted peoples of the Amazon rainforest living in areas where oil has been discovered Minorities in the Oil Producing Regions The peoples living in the oil producing communities largely belong to ethnic groups other than the three major groups (Yoruba, Igbo, and Hausa-Fulani) that dominate Nigeria. They speak a diverse range of languages and dialects: at least five major language groups are represented in the delta states. There areestimated to be approximately eight million people (there are no reliable census data) who would describe themselves as Ijaw, largely living in the riverine areas of what are now Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers States, as well as in Port Harcourt, Warri, and other towns on dry land. The division between the riverine and upland areas is of major cultural and geopolitical importance in the debates over the rights of the oil areas. Other ethnic groups on dry land in what is now Rivers State include the Ogoni, numbering some 500,000 (themselves divided between four separate dialect groups); several groups speaking languages related to Igbo, including the Etche, Ndoni, and Ikwerre; a number of communities speaking dialects falling into a Central Delta language group; the Andoni, who speak a Lower Cross dialect, and others.
Extractions: NIGERIA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Home Program Featured Speakers Abstracts ... Information March 29-31 2002 A bstracts (In Alphabetical Order) Index by Last Name: A B C D ... H I J K L M ... O P Q R S T U ... W X Y Z To view a participant's bio , click on their name. Participant e-mail addresses can be found by clicking on their name in the bio listing or on the participants page. bios, e-mail africaconference2002@yahoo.com Click here to skip to participant's bio section! Charles W. Abbott Department of Geography, University of Iowa Hometown associations: A key factor in Nigeria's 20th century Akanmu Adebayo Shari'a and States' Rights: Religion and the Resurgence of Federalism in Nigeria in the Third Republic Wale Adebanwi , Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. Until recently, the media did not get the deserved attention in the literature of social theory owing to the tendency to neglect - or failure to reflect - the centrality of the media in social and political formations (Thompson, 1994). Now, there is general acknowledgement (though grudging in some cases) in the literature - even if from different and differing perspectives - that the media can enable and constrain the politics of society (Crowley and Mitchell, 1994), particularly if acting in concert with other social forces. This has pulled and pushed our understanding of the relationship of the variety and verity of the media to the social and political worlds into new terrains.
