Ndubueze Mbah
Biographic Data
| ID | 4177041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ndubueze Mbah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ndubueze |
| FAMILY NAME | Mbah |
| SIGNATURE | MBAH N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6060-7451 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cambridge World History of Sexualities
Volume III provides in-depth analyses of specific times and places in the history of world sexualities, to investigate more closely the lived experience of individuals and groups to reveal the diversity of human sexualities. Comprising twenty-five chapters, this volume covers ancient Athens, Rome, and Constantinople; eighth- and ninth-century Chang'an, ninth- and tenth-century Baghdad, and tenth- through twelfth-century Kyoto; fourteenth- and fif…
Sex in Lagos from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Century
In the Afro-Atlantic city of Lagos, Africans birthed sexualities in slavery and colonialism. Sex undergirded the politics of emancipation, imperial subjecthood, urbanization, and social differentiation. Africans navigated sexual politics as an afterlife of slavery, living a spectrum of gendered unfreedoms ranging from the persistence of slavery to reinventions of Atlantic slavery’s hierarchies under the guise of abolition. Where old slaving and n…
Of Masks and Masculinities in Africa
Contemporary forms of precarity, migration, connectivity, and sociality have transformed what it means to be a man in many African communities. Responding with agency and creativity to various incentives and constraints, Africans have adapted practices pertaining to labour, marriage, and sexuality to the exigencies of modern life amid the impacts of European colonialism, rapid urban growth, economic hardship, and political conflict. Drawing upon …
Afropolitan Masculinity
Between the 1850s and 1950s, when abolitionism masked neoslavery and engendered displacement and forced labour migration in West Africa, Africans used forgery as a survival mechanism. They forged legal documents, claimed multiple forms of citizenship and belonging as Afropolitans, and manipulated kinship and imperial bureaucracy in the quest for freedom. One arena of forgery examined in this article entailed the invention of 'husband' as 'wife-ow…
Wives Wishing to Join Their Husbands”
European mobilizations of Africans for labor relied on the forgery that Africans can be harnessed into modern units of capitalist production only when organized into households led by wage-earning men supported by domesticated women. Between the 1930s and 1950s, Nigerian male labor migrants to Fernando Po and Gabon, as well as their wives, advanced diverse forgeries in response to the legibility protocols that European states used to control Afri…
The Black Englishmen of Old Calabar
This article recovers the Afropolitan histories of Liberated Africans by examining their mobility and freedom politics. Liberated Africans enacted Afropolitanism when they returned from Sierra Leone to Old Calabar and fashioned themselves into Black Englishmen. Their Afropolitanism incorporated a dissident mode of Anglo-cosmopolitanism, thereby undermining orthodox British visions of imperial subjecthood. In using petitions to British authorities…
Reckoning with the Development Episteme
Introduction| September 01 2021 Reckoning with the Development Episteme: Failed Plans, Built Environment, and Visions of Nigeria’s Decolonization NDUBUEZE L. MBAH NDUBUEZE L. MBAH Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of West African History (2021) 7 (2): v–xii. https://doi.org/10.2307/48642056 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation NDUBUEZE L. MBAH; Reckoning…
“The Ghost of Macaulay”
Research Article| March 01 2021 “The Ghost of Macaulay”: Nigeria’s Anticolonialism and Struggle for Independence Ndubueze L. Mbah; Ndubueze L. Mbah State University of New York at Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Saheed Aderinto Saheed Aderinto Western Carolina University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of West African History (2021) 7 (1): v–vi. https://doi.org/10.14321/jwestaf…
Robert Murray, Atlantic Passages
Closely reading the records of the American Colonization Society, journals of American naval officers like Horatio Bridge, Liberian court records, travel reports and exposés, as well as Americo-Liberian newspapers, journals, and letters, Robert Murray generates a compelling narrative of Atlantic and American racialization in West Africa. Melding whiteness and black Atlantic scholarships, this book explores the experiences of Americo-Liberians, or…
Female Masculinities, Dissident Sexuality, and the Material Politics of Gender in Early Twentieth-Century Igboland
Colonialism, Christianity, and Western education alienated women from the dominant resources of social mobility, which resulted in the masculinization of wealth in early twentieth-century Igboland. This article examines women's individual challenges to changing practices of gendered access, sexuality, and power. By performing ogaranya (wealth-power) masculinity through trade, mediumship, and matronship, Ohafia women expanded the ideological scope…
Afropolitan Masculinity
Between the 1850s and 1950s, when abolitionism masked neoslavery and engendered displacement and forced labour migration in West Africa, Africans used forgery as a survival mechanism. They forged legal documents, claimed multiple forms of citizenship and belonging as Afropolitans, and manipulated kinship and imperial bureaucracy in the quest for freedom. One arena of forgery examined in this article entailed the invention of 'husband' as 'wife-ow…
The Black Englishmen of Old Calabar
This article recovers the Afropolitan histories of Liberated Africans by examining their mobility and freedom politics. Liberated Africans enacted Afropolitanism when they returned from Sierra Leone to Old Calabar and fashioned themselves into Black Englishmen. Their Afropolitanism incorporated a dissident mode of Anglo-cosmopolitanism, thereby undermining orthodox British visions of imperial subjecthood. In using petitions to British authorities…
Female Masculinities, Dissident Sexuality, and the Material Politics of Gender in Early Twentieth-Century Igboland
Colonialism, Christianity, and Western education alienated women from the dominant resources of social mobility, which resulted in the masculinization of wealth in early twentieth-century Igboland. This article examines women's individual challenges to changing practices of gendered access, sexuality, and power. By performing ogaranya (wealth-power) masculinity through trade, mediumship, and matronship, Ohafia women expanded the ideological scope…
Reckoning with the Development Episteme
Introduction| September 01 2021 Reckoning with the Development Episteme: Failed Plans, Built Environment, and Visions of Nigeria’s Decolonization NDUBUEZE L. MBAH NDUBUEZE L. MBAH Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of West African History (2021) 7 (2): v–xii. https://doi.org/10.2307/48642056 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation NDUBUEZE L. MBAH; Reckoning…
“The Ghost of Macaulay”
Research Article| March 01 2021 “The Ghost of Macaulay”: Nigeria’s Anticolonialism and Struggle for Independence Ndubueze L. Mbah; Ndubueze L. Mbah State University of New York at Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Saheed Aderinto Saheed Aderinto Western Carolina University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of West African History (2021) 7 (1): v–vi. https://doi.org/10.14321/jwestaf…
Robert Murray, Atlantic Passages
Closely reading the records of the American Colonization Society, journals of American naval officers like Horatio Bridge, Liberian court records, travel reports and exposés, as well as Americo-Liberian newspapers, journals, and letters, Robert Murray generates a compelling narrative of Atlantic and American racialization in West Africa. Melding whiteness and black Atlantic scholarships, this book explores the experiences of Americo-Liberians, or…
Wives Wishing to Join Their Husbands”
European mobilizations of Africans for labor relied on the forgery that Africans can be harnessed into modern units of capitalist production only when organized into households led by wage-earning men supported by domesticated women. Between the 1930s and 1950s, Nigerian male labor migrants to Fernando Po and Gabon, as well as their wives, advanced diverse forgeries in response to the legibility protocols that European states used to control Afri…
The Black Englishmen of Old Calabar
This article recovers the Afropolitan histories of Liberated Africans by examining their mobility and freedom politics. Liberated Africans enacted Afropolitanism when they returned from Sierra Leone to Old Calabar and fashioned themselves into Black Englishmen. Their Afropolitanism incorporated a dissident mode of Anglo-cosmopolitanism, thereby undermining orthodox British visions of imperial subjecthood. In using petitions to British authorities…
Of Masks and Masculinities in Africa
Contemporary forms of precarity, migration, connectivity, and sociality have transformed what it means to be a man in many African communities. Responding with agency and creativity to various incentives and constraints, Africans have adapted practices pertaining to labour, marriage, and sexuality to the exigencies of modern life amid the impacts of European colonialism, rapid urban growth, economic hardship, and political conflict. Drawing upon …
Afropolitan Masculinity
Between the 1850s and 1950s, when abolitionism masked neoslavery and engendered displacement and forced labour migration in West Africa, Africans used forgery as a survival mechanism. They forged legal documents, claimed multiple forms of citizenship and belonging as Afropolitans, and manipulated kinship and imperial bureaucracy in the quest for freedom. One arena of forgery examined in this article entailed the invention of 'husband' as 'wife-ow…
The Cambridge World History of Sexualities
Volume III provides in-depth analyses of specific times and places in the history of world sexualities, to investigate more closely the lived experience of individuals and groups to reveal the diversity of human sexualities. Comprising twenty-five chapters, this volume covers ancient Athens, Rome, and Constantinople; eighth- and ninth-century Chang'an, ninth- and tenth-century Baghdad, and tenth- through twelfth-century Kyoto; fourteenth- and fif…
Sex in Lagos from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Century
In the Afro-Atlantic city of Lagos, Africans birthed sexualities in slavery and colonialism. Sex undergirded the politics of emancipation, imperial subjecthood, urbanization, and social differentiation. Africans navigated sexual politics as an afterlife of slavery, living a spectrum of gendered unfreedoms ranging from the persistence of slavery to reinventions of Atlantic slavery’s hierarchies under the guise of abolition. Where old slaving and n…
Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · African history and culture studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (4 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works)