Ngozika Anthonia Obi-Ani
Biographic Data
| ID | 285708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ngozika Anthonia Obi-Ani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ngozika Anthonia |
| FAMILY NAME | Obi-Ani |
| SIGNATURE | OBI-ANI N A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nigeria |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0219-7460 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
War Is Fearful: The Recollection of War Memories Through Personal Naming Practices in Southeastern Nigeria
The Nigeria–Biafra war (1967–1970) has been regarded as the first major civil war in post-colonial Africa, with an attendant and colossal loss of lives, property, and infrastructure. There are many representations of memories of the war in fiction, non-fiction, symbols, memoires, and post-war relics (usually found in museums) but the role of personal naming practices has been largely neglected in the literature and social narratives of the war hi…
It May Be Unhealthy but It’s Really Cool: The Discourse of Tobacco Consumption Among Female Youth in Nigeria
A Question of Memory: The Biafran Struggle in Perspective
How do Nigeria’s socioeconomic challenges influence the revival of memories of the Nigeria–Biafra war among survivors and their descendants? How do these recollections affect their daily life experiences? This article examines the motivations of the descendants of war survivors and how local “memory entrepreneurs” have become “cult heroes” with a messianic presence throughout Igboland, Nigeria. The study explores how multiple anxieties contribute…
Ndish i and alekwu cultural beliefs and gender inequality among communities in Nigeria
The Ndishi and Alekwu practices of the northernmost Igbo community in Enugu-Ezike, as well as the Otukpa and Owukpa Idoma in Benue State, Nigeria, serve as prime examples of institutions that persistently challenge the notion that pre-colonial Africa provided equal treatment for women. Within these cultural norms, married women who transgress their matrimonial fidelity or assist their natal relatives without their husbands’ consent are believed t…
The City of Boys: An ethnographic survey into the experiences of apprentices and urbanization of Onitsha City, Nigeria
Unforgotten shadows: Exploring the dynamics of Biafra agitation in south-east Nigeria
Since 2015, the south-eastern region of Nigeria has experienced sporadic outbursts of aggression spearheaded by Biafran separatist agitators. However, the latter part of the 2010s has witnessed a marked increase in the fervent endeavours of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) activists within the same area as they passionately pursue their aspirations for self-determination. Central to their approach is enforcing a compulsory weekly 'sit-at-home'…
Not all deities were transformed in Igboland: A cultural history of the Api-Opi deity
Purpose This study examines the cultural history of the Api-Opi deity in Opi, Nsukka, Enugu State of Nigeria. The study sets out to examine the re-emergence of youthful worshippers of Api-Opi, despite the penetration of Christianity in the area. Design/methodology/approach The study employed ethnographic observation and field visits to the shrine of Api-Opi in Opi community of Enugu State, Nigeria. In addition, this study uncovers new information…
Socio-Economic Transformations in Nigeria: The Role of Church Missionary Society (CMS) Schools and Social Stigmatization in Onitsha Province, 1904 – 1975
The missionary education curriculum had been hotly debated among African scholars. They argued that they taught subjects which subverted African indigenous knowledge and culture. Thus, in their haste to produce court clerks, interpreters and catechists, they produced alienated Africans who looked down on their culture and tradition as “barbaric and heathen.” However, at the outset of the missionary educational establishment, the pioneer students …
Covid-19 pandemic and The Nigerian primary healthcare system: The leadership question
Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the pathetic nature of the Nigeria healthcare system has become more glaring. In First World countries, the ravaging nature of the pandemic, marked by a high death toll, elicits trepidation among Nigerian citizens. What is more, these fears are not necessarily as a result of the lethal nature of COVID-19 but rather, they are consequent of certain conditions amongst which include: an inept and unconcern…
Interrogating the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Policies in Nigeria, 1986–2018
From the 1980s, Nigeria’s economy has witnessed severe stagnation. While Eurocentric literature pinpoint the Nigerian civil war and her leaders’ corruptive tendency as the prima facie, Afrocentric literatures trace the country’s economic woes to her historical processes of colonial domination and economic exploitation. Nevertheless, none of the above arguments underpin more firmly as being the catalyst to the country’s economic dysfunction especi…
Creativity, spirituality and society: A study in preservation of Ikenga and Ọfọ sculptures in contemporary Igbo society
Purpose The overall aim of this research is to interpret Ikenga and Ofo creativity as it is revered in Igbo societies. Igbo creativity, especially interpreted through material culture, suffers the threat of extinction resulting from the forces of modernity. Forces of modernisation, which appear in the personae of Christianity, education, urbanisation and industrialisation, denigrated indigenous creativity, brandishing them as devious, fetish and …
Presumed urbanization”: The experiences of Onitsha city slums dwellers
Social media and the Covid-19 pandemic: Observations from Nigeria
Social Media is an invaluable means of disseminating information to the citizenry; hence it is a powerful tool of propaganda. In lieu of the Nigerian situation, it acts as a two-edged sword as it allows citizens to be privy to information without impediments. However, this same tool has been used to misinform the populace and to circulate unverifiable and deceptive messages to citizens. As regards this, the basic question becomes: what are the ad…
A historical perspective of Nigerian immigrants in Europe
The world is gradually shrinking that at the press of a button events happening in a far-flung part of the earth could be followed live via a cable network. Globalization or capitalist penetration of every economy is a new phenomenon. Industrialized nations of the West are growing richer and having access to natural resources of the third world. Most of the third world countries are experiencing a harsh economic turn. World trade organization (WT…
Urbanization in Nigeria: The Onitsha experience
Urbanization in Nigeria: The Onitsha experience
Unforgotten shadows: Exploring the dynamics of Biafra agitation in south-east Nigeria
Since 2015, the south-eastern region of Nigeria has experienced sporadic outbursts of aggression spearheaded by Biafran separatist agitators. However, the latter part of the 2010s has witnessed a marked increase in the fervent endeavours of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) activists within the same area as they passionately pursue their aspirations for self-determination. Central to their approach is enforcing a compulsory weekly 'sit-at-home'…
Presumed urbanization”: The experiences of Onitsha city slums dwellers
War Is Fearful: The Recollection of War Memories Through Personal Naming Practices in Southeastern Nigeria
The Nigeria–Biafra war (1967–1970) has been regarded as the first major civil war in post-colonial Africa, with an attendant and colossal loss of lives, property, and infrastructure. There are many representations of memories of the war in fiction, non-fiction, symbols, memoires, and post-war relics (usually found in museums) but the role of personal naming practices has been largely neglected in the literature and social narratives of the war hi…
Ndish i and alekwu cultural beliefs and gender inequality among communities in Nigeria
The Ndishi and Alekwu practices of the northernmost Igbo community in Enugu-Ezike, as well as the Otukpa and Owukpa Idoma in Benue State, Nigeria, serve as prime examples of institutions that persistently challenge the notion that pre-colonial Africa provided equal treatment for women. Within these cultural norms, married women who transgress their matrimonial fidelity or assist their natal relatives without their husbands’ consent are believed t…
The City of Boys: An ethnographic survey into the experiences of apprentices and urbanization of Onitsha City, Nigeria
Social media and the Covid-19 pandemic: Observations from Nigeria
Social Media is an invaluable means of disseminating information to the citizenry; hence it is a powerful tool of propaganda. In lieu of the Nigerian situation, it acts as a two-edged sword as it allows citizens to be privy to information without impediments. However, this same tool has been used to misinform the populace and to circulate unverifiable and deceptive messages to citizens. As regards this, the basic question becomes: what are the ad…
A historical perspective of Nigerian immigrants in Europe
The world is gradually shrinking that at the press of a button events happening in a far-flung part of the earth could be followed live via a cable network. Globalization or capitalist penetration of every economy is a new phenomenon. Industrialized nations of the West are growing richer and having access to natural resources of the third world. Most of the third world countries are experiencing a harsh economic turn. World trade organization (WT…
Urbanization in Nigeria: The Onitsha experience
Socio-Economic Transformations in Nigeria: The Role of Church Missionary Society (CMS) Schools and Social Stigmatization in Onitsha Province, 1904 – 1975
The missionary education curriculum had been hotly debated among African scholars. They argued that they taught subjects which subverted African indigenous knowledge and culture. Thus, in their haste to produce court clerks, interpreters and catechists, they produced alienated Africans who looked down on their culture and tradition as “barbaric and heathen.” However, at the outset of the missionary educational establishment, the pioneer students …
Covid-19 pandemic and The Nigerian primary healthcare system: The leadership question
Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the pathetic nature of the Nigeria healthcare system has become more glaring. In First World countries, the ravaging nature of the pandemic, marked by a high death toll, elicits trepidation among Nigerian citizens. What is more, these fears are not necessarily as a result of the lethal nature of COVID-19 but rather, they are consequent of certain conditions amongst which include: an inept and unconcern…
Interrogating the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Policies in Nigeria, 1986–2018
From the 1980s, Nigeria’s economy has witnessed severe stagnation. While Eurocentric literature pinpoint the Nigerian civil war and her leaders’ corruptive tendency as the prima facie, Afrocentric literatures trace the country’s economic woes to her historical processes of colonial domination and economic exploitation. Nevertheless, none of the above arguments underpin more firmly as being the catalyst to the country’s economic dysfunction especi…
Creativity, spirituality and society: A study in preservation of Ikenga and Ọfọ sculptures in contemporary Igbo society
Purpose The overall aim of this research is to interpret Ikenga and Ofo creativity as it is revered in Igbo societies. Igbo creativity, especially interpreted through material culture, suffers the threat of extinction resulting from the forces of modernity. Forces of modernisation, which appear in the personae of Christianity, education, urbanisation and industrialisation, denigrated indigenous creativity, brandishing them as devious, fetish and …
Presumed urbanization”: The experiences of Onitsha city slums dwellers
Not all deities were transformed in Igboland: A cultural history of the Api-Opi deity
Purpose This study examines the cultural history of the Api-Opi deity in Opi, Nsukka, Enugu State of Nigeria. The study sets out to examine the re-emergence of youthful worshippers of Api-Opi, despite the penetration of Christianity in the area. Design/methodology/approach The study employed ethnographic observation and field visits to the shrine of Api-Opi in Opi community of Enugu State, Nigeria. In addition, this study uncovers new information…
The City of Boys: An ethnographic survey into the experiences of apprentices and urbanization of Onitsha City, Nigeria
Unforgotten shadows: Exploring the dynamics of Biafra agitation in south-east Nigeria
Since 2015, the south-eastern region of Nigeria has experienced sporadic outbursts of aggression spearheaded by Biafran separatist agitators. However, the latter part of the 2010s has witnessed a marked increase in the fervent endeavours of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) activists within the same area as they passionately pursue their aspirations for self-determination. Central to their approach is enforcing a compulsory weekly 'sit-at-home'…
War Is Fearful: The Recollection of War Memories Through Personal Naming Practices in Southeastern Nigeria
The Nigeria–Biafra war (1967–1970) has been regarded as the first major civil war in post-colonial Africa, with an attendant and colossal loss of lives, property, and infrastructure. There are many representations of memories of the war in fiction, non-fiction, symbols, memoires, and post-war relics (usually found in museums) but the role of personal naming practices has been largely neglected in the literature and social narratives of the war hi…
It May Be Unhealthy but It’s Really Cool: The Discourse of Tobacco Consumption Among Female Youth in Nigeria
A Question of Memory: The Biafran Struggle in Perspective
How do Nigeria’s socioeconomic challenges influence the revival of memories of the Nigeria–Biafra war among survivors and their descendants? How do these recollections affect their daily life experiences? This article examines the motivations of the descendants of war survivors and how local “memory entrepreneurs” have become “cult heroes” with a messianic presence throughout Igboland, Nigeria. The study explores how multiple anxieties contribute…
Ndish i and alekwu cultural beliefs and gender inequality among communities in Nigeria
The Ndishi and Alekwu practices of the northernmost Igbo community in Enugu-Ezike, as well as the Otukpa and Owukpa Idoma in Benue State, Nigeria, serve as prime examples of institutions that persistently challenge the notion that pre-colonial Africa provided equal treatment for women. Within these cultural norms, married women who transgress their matrimonial fidelity or assist their natal relatives without their husbands’ consent are believed t…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (4 works)