Bright Alozie
Biographic Data
| ID | 679665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bright Alozie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bright |
| FAMILY NAME | Alozie |
| SIGNATURE | ALOZIE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | West Virginia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5835-8839 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Writing Back to Empire: Anticolonial Petitioning and Decolonisation in Postwar British West Africa, 1945–1960
This article reexamines petition writing as a strategic form of anticolonial resistance and negotiation in British West Africa between 1945 and 1960. Focusing on Nigeria and the Gold Coast (now Ghana), it argues that petitions – often regarded as apolitical or ineffective – were in fact deeply political texts through which colonised individuals asserted rights, challenged imperial authority, and participated in shaping decolonisation discourse. D…
Feet on the Ball, Minds on Their Rights’: Women, Football and Protests in Eastern Nigeria, 1892–1975
This article explores the intersection between women's participation in football and their engagement in political protest in Eastern Nigeria from the late colonial period through the early years of independence. Employing a postcolonial feminist framework, it foregrounds women's agency, resilience and resistance, recovering their historically marginalized voices through archival research, oral histories and nationalist press materials. The study…
Between the Sensuous and Sacred
Mbari (or mbarihouses), found in some parts of eastern Nigeria, are ritual houses filled with colorful tableaux of life-sized painted figures representing Igbo beliefs and deities, especially Ala, the Earth Mother/goddess. While many Mbari structures and art focus on spiritual themes, some include sexual imagery. The author's study analyzes and sheds new light on these often misunderstood sexual themes. Adopting postcolonial, gender, and Igbo-Afr…
Militarizing Marriage: West African Soldiers’ Conjugal Traditions in Modern French Empire
Contemporary historical and feminist literature has long contended that violence, militarism, and colonial rule are profoundly gendered. Sarah Zimmermann's Militarizing Marriage provides excellent empirical evidence on the topic and makes a compelling case for the instrumentality of African women to global French imperial ideology, conquest, and expansionism. Her study joins “a small field of works that address forced conjugal association, sexual…
Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict, by Chima J. Korieh
Space and Colonial Alterity: Interrogating British Residential Segregation in Nigeria, 1899-1919
The policy of segregation is undoubtedly a resented feature of colonial rule in Africa. However, discussions of the residential racial segregation policy of the British colonial administration in Africa invariably focus on “settler colonies” of South, Central, and East Africa. British colonial West Africa hardly features in such discussions since it is widely believed that these areas, which had no large-scale European settler populations, had no…
Female Voices on Ink”: The Sexual Politics of Petitions in Colonial Igboland, 1892–1960
While historians have, of course, employed a host of documentary sources in reconstructing the colonial history of Nigeria, few have used petitions to understand the dynamic negotiations that occurred between the colonizer and the colonized. As a result, a vital primary source of history has been underutilized. Likewise, the voices of women lamentably have suffered the same fate as the use of petitions. This study seeks to fill this important gap…
Female Voices on Ink”: The Sexual Politics of Petitions in Colonial Igboland, 1892–1960
While historians have, of course, employed a host of documentary sources in reconstructing the colonial history of Nigeria, few have used petitions to understand the dynamic negotiations that occurred between the colonizer and the colonized. As a result, a vital primary source of history has been underutilized. Likewise, the voices of women lamentably have suffered the same fate as the use of petitions. This study seeks to fill this important gap…
Female Voices on Ink”: The Sexual Politics of Petitions in Colonial Igboland, 1892–1960
While historians have, of course, employed a host of documentary sources in reconstructing the colonial history of Nigeria, few have used petitions to understand the dynamic negotiations that occurred between the colonizer and the colonized. As a result, a vital primary source of history has been underutilized. Likewise, the voices of women lamentably have suffered the same fate as the use of petitions. This study seeks to fill this important gap…
Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict, by Chima J. Korieh
Space and Colonial Alterity: Interrogating British Residential Segregation in Nigeria, 1899-1919
The policy of segregation is undoubtedly a resented feature of colonial rule in Africa. However, discussions of the residential racial segregation policy of the British colonial administration in Africa invariably focus on “settler colonies” of South, Central, and East Africa. British colonial West Africa hardly features in such discussions since it is widely believed that these areas, which had no large-scale European settler populations, had no…
Militarizing Marriage: West African Soldiers’ Conjugal Traditions in Modern French Empire
Contemporary historical and feminist literature has long contended that violence, militarism, and colonial rule are profoundly gendered. Sarah Zimmermann's Militarizing Marriage provides excellent empirical evidence on the topic and makes a compelling case for the instrumentality of African women to global French imperial ideology, conquest, and expansionism. Her study joins “a small field of works that address forced conjugal association, sexual…
Writing Back to Empire: Anticolonial Petitioning and Decolonisation in Postwar British West Africa, 1945–1960
This article reexamines petition writing as a strategic form of anticolonial resistance and negotiation in British West Africa between 1945 and 1960. Focusing on Nigeria and the Gold Coast (now Ghana), it argues that petitions – often regarded as apolitical or ineffective – were in fact deeply political texts through which colonised individuals asserted rights, challenged imperial authority, and participated in shaping decolonisation discourse. D…
Feet on the Ball, Minds on Their Rights’: Women, Football and Protests in Eastern Nigeria, 1892–1975
This article explores the intersection between women's participation in football and their engagement in political protest in Eastern Nigeria from the late colonial period through the early years of independence. Employing a postcolonial feminist framework, it foregrounds women's agency, resilience and resistance, recovering their historically marginalized voices through archival research, oral histories and nationalist press materials. The study…
Between the Sensuous and Sacred
Mbari (or mbarihouses), found in some parts of eastern Nigeria, are ritual houses filled with colorful tableaux of life-sized painted figures representing Igbo beliefs and deities, especially Ala, the Earth Mother/goddess. While many Mbari structures and art focus on spiritual themes, some include sexual imagery. The author's study analyzes and sheds new light on these often misunderstood sexual themes. Adopting postcolonial, gender, and Igbo-Afr…
Colonialism (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Empire (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)