Raphael Chijioke Njoku
Biographic Data
| ID | 3585760 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raphael Chijioke Njoku |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raphael Chijioke |
| FAMILY NAME | Njoku |
| SIGNATURE | NJOKU R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Idaho State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Conflation of Race and Propaganda in the Mobilization of Africans for the Second World War
The primary focus here is to accentuate the competing roles of race and propaganda in the enlistment of Africans and African Americans for the Second World War. Among other things, the discussion captures on the interwar years and emphasizes the subtleties of African American Pan-Africanist discourses as a counterweight to Black oppression encountered in the racialized spaces of Jim Crow America, colonized Africa, and the pugnacious infraction th…
Nationalism, Decolonization, and Exile Diplomacy
The disputes that led to the exiling of Kabaka Mutesa II of British Uganda and Sultan Mohammed V of French Morocco in 1953 highlight the shifting and involved agency of the Indigenous rulers in the postwar decolonization struggle. The time was painful for the colonial powers as nationalists brought profound pressure on the Allied Powers to comply with their promises of "self-determination" for colonized peoples. In Uganda, Britain's move to sidel…
West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals
Abdi Ismail Samatar. Africa’s First Democrats
In Africa’s First Democrats: Somalia’s Aden A. Osman and Abdirazak H. Hussen, Abdi Ismail Samatar refocuses attention on leadership, the key question that has dominated African political discourses in the past six decades. The extant studies, in their diachronic terms, have ridiculed, insulted, and dismissed the African postcolonial leaders as colossal failures. Similarly to Chinua Achebe’s The Trouble with Nigeria (1983), which squarely blames p…
Igbo in the Atlantic World
Chinua Achebe and the Development of Igbo/African Studies
Chinua Achebe and the Development of Igbo/African Studies
This chapter examines the contributions of Chinua Achebe to the development of Igbo Studies in particular, and African Studies in general.1 Conceived in the colonial context of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when very little was preserved in writing by the Africans on Igbo social life and customs, Achebe’s trilogy—Things Fall Apart (1958), No Longer at Ease (1960) and Arrow of God (1964)—have particularly served scholars of all…
Don C. Ohadike
Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa
Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa aims to explore the ways Christianity and colonialism acted as hegemonic or counter hegemonic forces in the making of African societies. As Western interventionist forces, Christianity and colonialism were crucial in establishing and maintaining political, cultural, and economic domination. Indeed, both elements of Africa’s encounter with the West played pivotal roles in shaping African societies…
Writing as Resistance
Book Review| August 01 2006 Writing as Resistance: Life Stories of Imprisonment, Exile, and Homecoming from Apartheid South Africa Writing as Resistance: Life Stories of Imprisonment, Exile, and Homecoming from Apartheid South Africa Paul Gready Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003 341 pp., $79.00 (cloth) Raphael Chijioke Njoku Raphael Chijioke Njoku Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa…
African Cultural Values
Foreword 1. Introduction 2. Traditions, Adaptations, and Social Change Under Colonial Rule 3. Dr. Alvan Azinna Ikoku of Arochukwu (1900-1971) 4. Dr. Akanu Ibiam: The Eze Ogo I of Unwana (Afikpo) (1906-1995) 5. The Arondizuogu 'Argonauts': Mazi Mbonu Ojike (1914-1956) and Dr. Kingsley Ozuomba Mbadiwe (1917-1990) 6. Epilogue
Deadly ethnic conflict and the imperative of power sharing
Principles of consociationalism and federalism have been successfully adopted by the strategic elites in a number of countries, including some in Africa, turning their once volatile politics into a more amicable order. It is proposed that the best hope for a less conflictual politics in Rwanda resides in an elite disposition towards political accommodation and the adoption of the non-majoritarian political arrangements associated with consociatio…
Social Welfare in Muslim Societies in Africa
This introductory essay presents a discussion about a particular discourse within Islamic studies, namely the attempt to create a social welfare system through the establishment of an Islamic economy.However, instead of focussing on the subject of Islamic economics merely from within, there will be an attempt to locate the discussion within the framework of a larger developmental discourse.Therefore, while the first part of the essay will concent…
Nation, Society and Culture in North Africa
Political Legitimacy in Middle Africa
Deconstructing Abacha
As Recent Demilitarization And Democratic Trends World-Wide have shown, the exit of a dictator of the calibre of Abacha (1993–98) in Nigeria may foster a strong desire among successors for transition to a more democratic order. As in Chile after General Augusto Pinochet, and in Spain after Franco, General Abdulsalam Abubakar, who succeeded General Sani Abacha, presided in Nigeria over a programme of transition to civilian rule. This culminated in…
Consociationalism
Studies by political scientists and theorists have identified ethnicity and ethnonationalism as potential obstacles to democracy and political stability in multiethnic states. Nigeria as a pluralistic polity shares in this category of countries where fierce competition for power among its various ethnic groups has made governing a difficult task. In this study, the objective was to find what relevance consociationalism has for the volatile Nigeri…
Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa
Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa aims to explore the ways Christianity and colonialism acted as hegemonic or counter hegemonic forces in the making of African societies. As Western interventionist forces, Christianity and colonialism were crucial in establishing and maintaining political, cultural, and economic domination. Indeed, both elements of Africa’s encounter with the West played pivotal roles in shaping African societies…
Writing as Resistance
Book Review| August 01 2006 Writing as Resistance: Life Stories of Imprisonment, Exile, and Homecoming from Apartheid South Africa Writing as Resistance: Life Stories of Imprisonment, Exile, and Homecoming from Apartheid South Africa Paul Gready Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003 341 pp., $79.00 (cloth) Raphael Chijioke Njoku Raphael Chijioke Njoku Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa…
Deconstructing Abacha
As Recent Demilitarization And Democratic Trends World-Wide have shown, the exit of a dictator of the calibre of Abacha (1993–98) in Nigeria may foster a strong desire among successors for transition to a more democratic order. As in Chile after General Augusto Pinochet, and in Spain after Franco, General Abdulsalam Abubakar, who succeeded General Sani Abacha, presided in Nigeria over a programme of transition to civilian rule. This culminated in…
Consociationalism
Studies by political scientists and theorists have identified ethnicity and ethnonationalism as potential obstacles to democracy and political stability in multiethnic states. Nigeria as a pluralistic polity shares in this category of countries where fierce competition for power among its various ethnic groups has made governing a difficult task. In this study, the objective was to find what relevance consociationalism has for the volatile Nigeri…
Nationalism, Decolonization, and Exile Diplomacy
The disputes that led to the exiling of Kabaka Mutesa II of British Uganda and Sultan Mohammed V of French Morocco in 1953 highlight the shifting and involved agency of the Indigenous rulers in the postwar decolonization struggle. The time was painful for the colonial powers as nationalists brought profound pressure on the Allied Powers to comply with their promises of "self-determination" for colonized peoples. In Uganda, Britain's move to sidel…
Deadly ethnic conflict and the imperative of power sharing
Principles of consociationalism and federalism have been successfully adopted by the strategic elites in a number of countries, including some in Africa, turning their once volatile politics into a more amicable order. It is proposed that the best hope for a less conflictual politics in Rwanda resides in an elite disposition towards political accommodation and the adoption of the non-majoritarian political arrangements associated with consociatio…
Nation, Society and Culture in North Africa
Consociationalism
Studies by political scientists and theorists have identified ethnicity and ethnonationalism as potential obstacles to democracy and political stability in multiethnic states. Nigeria as a pluralistic polity shares in this category of countries where fierce competition for power among its various ethnic groups has made governing a difficult task. In this study, the objective was to find what relevance consociationalism has for the volatile Nigeri…
Deconstructing Abacha
As Recent Demilitarization And Democratic Trends World-Wide have shown, the exit of a dictator of the calibre of Abacha (1993–98) in Nigeria may foster a strong desire among successors for transition to a more democratic order. As in Chile after General Augusto Pinochet, and in Spain after Franco, General Abdulsalam Abubakar, who succeeded General Sani Abacha, presided in Nigeria over a programme of transition to civilian rule. This culminated in…
Political Legitimacy in Middle Africa
Social Welfare in Muslim Societies in Africa
This introductory essay presents a discussion about a particular discourse within Islamic studies, namely the attempt to create a social welfare system through the establishment of an Islamic economy.However, instead of focussing on the subject of Islamic economics merely from within, there will be an attempt to locate the discussion within the framework of a larger developmental discourse.Therefore, while the first part of the essay will concent…
Nation, Society and Culture in North Africa
Deadly ethnic conflict and the imperative of power sharing
Principles of consociationalism and federalism have been successfully adopted by the strategic elites in a number of countries, including some in Africa, turning their once volatile politics into a more amicable order. It is proposed that the best hope for a less conflictual politics in Rwanda resides in an elite disposition towards political accommodation and the adoption of the non-majoritarian political arrangements associated with consociatio…
Writing as Resistance
Book Review| August 01 2006 Writing as Resistance: Life Stories of Imprisonment, Exile, and Homecoming from Apartheid South Africa Writing as Resistance: Life Stories of Imprisonment, Exile, and Homecoming from Apartheid South Africa Paul Gready Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003 341 pp., $79.00 (cloth) Raphael Chijioke Njoku Raphael Chijioke Njoku Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa…
African Cultural Values
Foreword 1. Introduction 2. Traditions, Adaptations, and Social Change Under Colonial Rule 3. Dr. Alvan Azinna Ikoku of Arochukwu (1900-1971) 4. Dr. Akanu Ibiam: The Eze Ogo I of Unwana (Afikpo) (1906-1995) 5. The Arondizuogu 'Argonauts': Mazi Mbonu Ojike (1914-1956) and Dr. Kingsley Ozuomba Mbadiwe (1917-1990) 6. Epilogue
Don C. Ohadike
Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa
Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa aims to explore the ways Christianity and colonialism acted as hegemonic or counter hegemonic forces in the making of African societies. As Western interventionist forces, Christianity and colonialism were crucial in establishing and maintaining political, cultural, and economic domination. Indeed, both elements of Africa’s encounter with the West played pivotal roles in shaping African societies…
Chinua Achebe and the Development of Igbo/African Studies
Chinua Achebe and the Development of Igbo/African Studies
This chapter examines the contributions of Chinua Achebe to the development of Igbo Studies in particular, and African Studies in general.1 Conceived in the colonial context of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when very little was preserved in writing by the Africans on Igbo social life and customs, Achebe’s trilogy—Things Fall Apart (1958), No Longer at Ease (1960) and Arrow of God (1964)—have particularly served scholars of all…
Igbo in the Atlantic World
Abdi Ismail Samatar. Africa’s First Democrats
In Africa’s First Democrats: Somalia’s Aden A. Osman and Abdirazak H. Hussen, Abdi Ismail Samatar refocuses attention on leadership, the key question that has dominated African political discourses in the past six decades. The extant studies, in their diachronic terms, have ridiculed, insulted, and dismissed the African postcolonial leaders as colossal failures. Similarly to Chinua Achebe’s The Trouble with Nigeria (1983), which squarely blames p…
West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals
Nationalism, Decolonization, and Exile Diplomacy
The disputes that led to the exiling of Kabaka Mutesa II of British Uganda and Sultan Mohammed V of French Morocco in 1953 highlight the shifting and involved agency of the Indigenous rulers in the postwar decolonization struggle. The time was painful for the colonial powers as nationalists brought profound pressure on the Allied Powers to comply with their promises of "self-determination" for colonized peoples. In Uganda, Britain's move to sidel…
The Conflation of Race and Propaganda in the Mobilization of Africans for the Second World War
The primary focus here is to accentuate the competing roles of race and propaganda in the enlistment of Africans and African Americans for the Second World War. Among other things, the discussion captures on the interwar years and emphasizes the subtleties of African American Pan-Africanist discourses as a counterweight to Black oppression encountered in the racialized spaces of Jim Crow America, colonized Africa, and the pugnacious infraction th…
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